Just about every aspect of technology and science can be used for good and evil. How is it that the provider can be punished? The manufacturers have absolutely no way of knowing let alone controlling what their coustomers do with their prouducts. In all fairness, it is the abusive users who should be taking the bullet for this.
Is it currently is, many of the former/current Netscape developers also work on Mozilla. This seems harmless enough from a development perspective, but the fact is, much of the Mozilla code is imported to netscape and therefore abused by AOL. In light of this and the fact the the mozilla source has some major problems in some areas, it may be a good idea to completely restart the Mozilla project from the beginning. This will allow Mozilla to remain free (and unexploited) from N$. A rewrite will also encourage developers to rethink the program's arcitecture and weed out a large number of the most prevasive bugs while adding new and improved features. The promised 100% W3C standards compliance would also help...
This satire was genuinely entertaining, but it does bring up some important issues, such as the ever-present forking problem. On the bright side, all the points which M$ usually disregards as "pointless" are exactly what has made Free Software so important. Think about it: in 25 years, all M$ has is a mediocre (even POS) OS line which gives users only minor flexibility. Linux, in less than 10 years has met or exceeded most of the features and usefulness that Windows employs. Just think where we'll be by Kernel 4.8...
I think the DARE program helps, at least a little bit. If it didn't exist, many more kids would end up being stoners by the time they entered high school (no pun here;-). Though it improves awareness among kids, it does little more than that. How they deal with substance abuse is up to their own judgement.
This brings M$'s fear of FreeSoftware to light more clearly. Obviously, they know the imporance and subsequent profitability of opensource software models, but are not willing to convert themselves, as moving to Free Software would be the biggest act of hypocracy in the modern computing era. I believe their logic is "If you can't beat 'em, delete 'em." Fortunately, in less than five years, 100% of AOLers will be running 'NIX (Now that's a scary thought...), so kudos to the hacker movement.
If MicroSloth really thought their prouducts were that much better, they would never stoop down to this type of 'diss advertising'.
For some real spamorific excitement, try Amazon's typo-url website, Amazone.com"!
I'm sure you'll love it;-D
On a more serious knote, can't you just block the sender email address? (I can't remember. I haven't used POP3 in over 1 1/2 years. [Long live web-based email!])
Here's a plausable scenario:
1. Government adopts Free systems (they already use BSD on the most secure networks).
2. Government modifys and improves the implementations for their own use.
3. Government refuses to release new sources due to "natonal security".
4. Millions of users break BSD/GNU law.
5. No one who cares can do anything about it.
As long as the Prez doesn't use SlackWare(...)
Motorola's business deals here are just appalling.It's just simply not right that this leading company can get away with esentailly blackmailing its dealers and resellers into handing over sensative buyer information which should be left to the buisinesses themselves. This brings new light to the "Digital DNA" system....And we thought M$ had backdoors to get info!
All this random hacking has left my Mandrake 7.1 system in ruins when it comes to compiling and some other things. 7.2 is supposed to contain the final 2.4 kernel. Now I'll have to live with screwed software 'till nearly the end of the year! *@$#^!
Oh well. Guess I'm just taking for granted the fact that Linux is upgraded every month or less and Winblowze only makes a point-oh 0h-x version every couple of years...:-)
Mabe we will get lucky and Windows will cost 1 grand or even more. This will force consumers to take a good look at what the're getting and what they were really getting when it was only 100 bux. This turn of events would not only overturn M$'s current 'Evil Empire' status, but would allow the avarage "techno-bozo" user to discover the efficiency and value of Open software (BSD/Linux in perticular). This may not be as 'humane' as a willing and gradual transition, but it would be interesting to see how this situation plays out in the long run. Price hikes could have a much larger impact than the current legal litigaton.
If you take a closer, less literal look at this memo, you'll notice that they dont' seem to be "doing this", only vaguely suggesting that it may be a pretty good idea. There is nothing saying that they will suddenly delete the Konquerer code, which has been building for several months to replace it with Mozilla. Most likely, Mozilla will simply have the level of integration that Netscape does now- comfortable, yet not demanding.
I think this is just one of the thousands of "wouldn't it be cool if..." letters passing between developers every day.
From the article, there doesn't seem to be many significant improvements that aren't being made by a million-and-one other distrobutions. The "auto-update" concept is not new. It's been in Mandrake and Debian for a while now-plus it's free.
Also, Mandrake 7.2 will ship with kernel 2.4 and kde2/GNOME1.2. Plus, it will have the usual large number of other updates/improvements.
Can RedHat say this?
NO not really. NOt on Win98 anyway. It's actually more pain than it's worth. However, it's great for speeding up Apache. That is if you can get it to recognize and write to the ramdisk in the first place;-) The OS where RAMDISKS are most effictive is actually BSD.
I could be wrong, but wouldn't Sun's abuse of the opensource drivers be goverened by the LGPL instead of the standard GPL? As drivers are small, "non core" programs, they should have been released under the Lesser GPL instead. While Sun used the software in it's closed-source OS without source and recognition, they have effictively broken the Lesser-not "greater" GNU General Public Liscense.
That's US government for you. This seems to happen whenever a new form of technology becomes avalible. I don't forsee, however that the FCC will win the case brought on by manufacturers. It's a sort of Napster-like case, but in reverse.
CRAYs are old and obsolete at the USD Supercomputer Center, but one or two of them are still seeing active service. While the're not the most powerful things anymore, their red and grey color really spices the place up;-)
Another interesting fact is that the're the only systems there which still require coolant to circulate over the mainboard(s) to keep them from overheating. I heared a story from the sysadmin which is interesting: About five years or so ago, the coolant system choked up and the CRAY's boards, chips, etc. fried. They literally had to use a fire extingusher to put the blaze out. Let's just hope the one who buys one from EBay has a firestation nearby;-}
Apparently, they couldn't handle all the hits. At least thats what the error message is giving me. Bet it's a Wintel running off of a 56k AOL account;-}
Yeeeeeeeepp! This is just another incident where it is proven that Micro$oft has absolute "root" power. As an assimilated company, Hewlet Packard has no choice but to make Linux as inaccessable as possible while still putting it to use for them. I could be entirely wrong, but the number one way to tell if the client is winblows or 'nix is to give it a remote cd and reply command. This means that the print server will ask the client to go to the main hard drive and report what it did to get there. if it did cd C:\ than it has to be Windoze or OS/2. if it did cd/dev/hda, than it is 'nix. While this is a very simple and probably incorrect way to describe it, someting similar could easily be happening.
You are probably right. However, I doubt that FreeNet will be the next "big thing". Currently in vo.2 or 0.3, it is entirely unsearchable/navigatable. While this is the whole point, I doubt the gen pub will like this. Especially those cuddly little AOL-on-MacOS trolls. My guess is that general filesharing programs such as GNUTella will become more popular instead. Napster is only one entity. the 'Net is huge.
The software/music sharing race has begun. Now that the tiger is out of the cage, it'll not likely go back in alive. Expect to watch the fur fly for several more months/years untill RIAA, etc. figure out that they will never possibly stop this.
FTP rules! it's more efficient and usually faster than http in most cases, although not quite as pretty. besides- it was the original protocol for the intenet- long before today's fancy webservers and SQL servers.
machines which can create and evolve themselves. This is truly amazing. If this continues to improve, humans won't have to spend as much time creating new robots ourselves. Other robots will simply "give birth" to them instead. As long as we set restricting rules from the beginning which can't be overrided, everything sould go great. The machines can continue to improve, and we won't have to worry very much about them becoming better than us and taking over "because they can".
As Anonymous Coward said, there's not really a market for it. At least not now as computing technology is only about 40 or so years old. This type of career would be very hard to come by, but would surely be very satisfying if a position was found.
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Just about every aspect of technology and science can be used for good and evil. How is it that the provider can be punished? The manufacturers have absolutely no way of knowing let alone controlling what their coustomers do with their prouducts. In all fairness, it is the abusive users who should be taking the bullet for this.
This protocol doesn work in Netscape 6.0 anymore. Guess AOL finally made it "Just to easy".
Is it currently is, many of the former/current Netscape developers also work on Mozilla. This seems harmless enough from a development perspective, but the fact is, much of the Mozilla code is imported to netscape and therefore abused by AOL. In light of this and the fact the the mozilla source has some major problems in some areas, it may be a good idea to completely restart the Mozilla project from the beginning. This will allow Mozilla to remain free (and unexploited) from N$. A rewrite will also encourage developers to rethink the program's arcitecture and weed out a large number of the most prevasive bugs while adding new and improved features. The promised 100% W3C standards compliance would also help...
This satire was genuinely entertaining, but it does bring up some important issues, such as the ever-present forking problem. On the bright side, all the points which M$ usually disregards as "pointless" are exactly what has made Free Software so important. Think about it: in 25 years, all M$ has is a mediocre (even POS) OS line which gives users only minor flexibility. Linux, in less than 10 years has met or exceeded most of the features and usefulness that Windows employs. Just think where we'll be by Kernel 4.8...
I think the DARE program helps, at least a little bit. If it didn't exist, many more kids would end up being stoners by the time they entered high school (no pun here ;-). Though it improves awareness among kids, it does little more than that. How they deal with substance abuse is up to their own judgement.
Flameboy, I'm hoome!
This brings M$'s fear of FreeSoftware to light more clearly. Obviously, they know the imporance and subsequent profitability of opensource software models, but are not willing to convert themselves, as moving to Free Software would be the biggest act of hypocracy in the modern computing era. I believe their logic is "If you can't beat 'em, delete 'em." Fortunately, in less than five years, 100% of AOLers will be running 'NIX (Now that's a scary thought...), so kudos to the hacker movement.
If MicroSloth really thought their prouducts were that much better, they would never stoop down to this type of 'diss advertising'.
For some real spamorific excitement, try Amazon's typo-url website, Amazone.com"! I'm sure you'll love it ;-D
On a more serious knote, can't you just block the sender email address? (I can't remember. I haven't used POP3 in over 1 1/2 years. [Long live web-based email!])
Here's a plausable scenario: 1. Government adopts Free systems (they already use BSD on the most secure networks). 2. Government modifys and improves the implementations for their own use. 3. Government refuses to release new sources due to "natonal security". 4. Millions of users break BSD/GNU law. 5. No one who cares can do anything about it. As long as the Prez doesn't use SlackWare(...)
Motorola's business deals here are just appalling.It's just simply not right that this leading company can get away with esentailly blackmailing its dealers and resellers into handing over sensative buyer information which should be left to the buisinesses themselves. This brings new light to the "Digital DNA" system. ...And we thought M$ had backdoors to get info!
All this random hacking has left my Mandrake 7.1 system in ruins when it comes to compiling and some other things. 7.2 is supposed to contain the final 2.4 kernel. Now I'll have to live with screwed software 'till nearly the end of the year! *@$#^! Oh well. Guess I'm just taking for granted the fact that Linux is upgraded every month or less and Winblowze only makes a point-oh 0h-x version every couple of years...:-)
Mabe we will get lucky and Windows will cost 1 grand or even more. This will force consumers to take a good look at what the're getting and what they were really getting when it was only 100 bux. This turn of events would not only overturn M$'s current 'Evil Empire' status, but would allow the avarage "techno-bozo" user to discover the efficiency and value of Open software (BSD/Linux in perticular). This may not be as 'humane' as a willing and gradual transition, but it would be interesting to see how this situation plays out in the long run. Price hikes could have a much larger impact than the current legal litigaton.
If you take a closer, less literal look at this memo, you'll notice that they dont' seem to be "doing this", only vaguely suggesting that it may be a pretty good idea. There is nothing saying that they will suddenly delete the Konquerer code, which has been building for several months to replace it with Mozilla. Most likely, Mozilla will simply have the level of integration that Netscape does now- comfortable, yet not demanding.
I think this is just one of the thousands of "wouldn't it be cool if..." letters passing between developers every day.
From the article, there doesn't seem to be many significant improvements that aren't being made by a million-and-one other distrobutions. The "auto-update" concept is not new. It's been in Mandrake and Debian for a while now-plus it's free. Also, Mandrake 7.2 will ship with kernel 2.4 and kde2/GNOME1.2. Plus, it will have the usual large number of other updates/improvements. Can RedHat say this?
NO not really. NOt on Win98 anyway. It's actually more pain than it's worth. However, it's great for speeding up Apache. That is if you can get it to recognize and write to the ramdisk in the first place ;-) The OS where RAMDISKS are most effictive is actually BSD.
I could be wrong, but wouldn't Sun's abuse of the opensource drivers be goverened by the LGPL instead of the standard GPL? As drivers are small, "non core" programs, they should have been released under the Lesser GPL instead. While Sun used the software in it's closed-source OS without source and recognition, they have effictively broken the Lesser-not "greater" GNU General Public Liscense.
That's US government for you. This seems to happen whenever a new form of technology becomes avalible. I don't forsee, however that the FCC will win the case brought on by manufacturers. It's a sort of Napster-like case, but in reverse.
Kool! This is actually pretty enternatining. Nothing that I didn't already know to some extent, but engaging just the same. Good work.
CRAYs are old and obsolete at the USD Supercomputer Center, but one or two of them are still seeing active service. While the're not the most powerful things anymore, their red and grey color really spices the place up ;-)
;-}
Another interesting fact is that the're the only systems there which still require coolant to circulate over the mainboard(s) to keep them from overheating. I heared a story from the sysadmin which is interesting: About five years or so ago, the coolant system choked up and the CRAY's boards, chips, etc. fried. They literally had to use a fire extingusher to put the blaze out.
Let's just hope the one who buys one from EBay has a firestation nearby
Apparently, they couldn't handle all the hits. At least thats what the error message is giving me. Bet it's a Wintel running off of a 56k AOL account ;-}
Yeeeeeeeepp! This is just another incident where it is proven that Micro$oft has absolute "root" power. As an assimilated company, Hewlet Packard has no choice but to make Linux as inaccessable as possible while still putting it to use for them. I could be entirely wrong, but the number one way to tell if the client is winblows or 'nix is to give it a remote cd and reply command. This means that the print server will ask the client to go to the main hard drive and report what it did to get there. if it did cd C:\ than it has to be Windoze or OS/2. if it did cd /dev/hda, than it is 'nix. While this is a very simple and probably incorrect way to describe it, someting similar could easily be happening.
My guess is that general filesharing programs such as GNUTella will become more popular instead. Napster is only one entity. the 'Net is huge.
The software/music sharing race has begun. Now that the tiger is out of the cage, it'll not likely go back in alive. Expect to watch the fur fly for several more months/years untill RIAA, etc. figure out that they will never possibly stop this.
FTP rules! it's more efficient and usually faster than http in most cases, although not quite as pretty. besides- it was the original protocol for the intenet- long before today's fancy webservers and SQL servers.
machines which can create and evolve themselves. This is truly amazing. If this continues to improve, humans won't have to spend as much time creating new robots ourselves. Other robots will simply "give birth" to them instead. As long as we set restricting rules from the beginning which can't be overrided, everything sould go great. The machines can continue to improve, and we won't have to worry very much about them becoming better than us and taking over "because they can".
As Anonymous Coward said, there's not really a market for it. At least not now as computing technology is only about 40 or so years old. This type of career would be very hard to come by, but would surely be very satisfying if a position was found.