The state of affairs in the USA stock market depends on "buzzword IPOs".
It is not very important for the daytraders and most lay investors to know if a company is successful or not. The latest "fad" would be good enough.
First it was "Push" technology, then Internet stocks, then anything ".com", then now it is Linux. All because of the media overhype for the last 10 months or so.
So someone decides to make a buck out of it and ride the wave.
Daytrading is not investing at all, but makeing money out of daily fluctuation. The lay investor is willing to pay ten times the IPO price for a company known to lose money, but will not invest in a company that has been on the market for while with better financials.
I used two of them, Netscape Netcenter, and Visto's Briefcase. Each has its strong points, but neither is perfect (Visto fails to sync the Pilot flawlessly, and NetCenter doesn't upload all bookmarks and Address books).
The idea of syncing my Pilot to the web, having all the web bookmarks, E-Mail anywhere in the world when I travel, at home, at client sites, or at the office is very appealing.
First, never *ever* name the computers after the function they do (e.g. Billing, Accounting, Support, Engineering,...etc.) nor by the people that are using them (JohnB, GregC,...etc.
Companies and divisions get merged or eliminated and you have to live with the misnomer. Also people move on, and name stays. We had a printer called Hashmi after the guy left the office (and eventually the whole company) for YEARS...
Also, never name the machines by their vendor, serial number, model,...etc. Anyone remembers the machine called VAX somewhere in the UUCP mail days, and it got replaced by a Sun, but was still called VAX?
Some nice themes include:
Astronomy and Universe: Planets, Galaxies, stars, you can even go the Messier catalog if you like...WIll never run out of names.
Fish: Well, there are two many of them, and I name the big machine "shark", my laptop "grouper",...etc.
Elements: Yes, it is a bad idea for a large site (thorium, lithium, uranium, plumbum). I tried to talk my friend (hi Geoff!) into not doing it, but Aussies are so stubborn and get their way...
OK, this is not a direct answer to your problem, but looking at the bigger picture, you may be better off with a standalone firewall box between your private LAN and the outside world.
The following solutions center on a single floppy drive Linux implementation on a 486 machine.
I would take a look at the ShareTheNet which is a commercial package I have set up for clients, very stable and very fast (it is Linux on one floppy - costs 70$).
All of them have mailing lists and/or web forums for support.
I am sure that there are many others, but these are the ones I tried. Ballantain had a problem with my modem, Freesco was very Alpha at the time, so I chose ShareTheNet (STN).
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I just had to spoil it once for the spammers.
We now take you back to your regular Slashdot programming.
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The state of affairs in the USA stock market depends on "buzzword IPOs".
It is not very important for the daytraders and most lay investors to know if a company is successful or not. The latest "fad" would be good enough.
First it was "Push" technology, then Internet stocks, then anything ".com", then now it is Linux. All because of the media overhype for the last 10 months or so.
So someone decides to make a buck out of it and ride the wave.
Daytrading is not investing at all, but makeing money out of daily fluctuation. The lay investor is willing to pay ten times the IPO price for a company known to lose money, but will not invest in a company that has been on the market for while with better financials.
Simple enough, but wierd all the same! Isn't it?
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Your organization must have conducted some sort of evaluation of other platforms before selecting Linux.
What other platforms were evaluated, and why each was rejected in favor of Linux.
Thanks
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Open Source aside, there are a few other free Desktops on the web, with varying degrees of functionality.
There was an article in Computer World about them.
I used two of them, Netscape Netcenter, and Visto's Briefcase. Each has its strong points, but neither is perfect (Visto fails to sync the Pilot flawlessly, and NetCenter doesn't upload all bookmarks and Address books).
The idea of syncing my Pilot to the web, having all the web bookmarks, E-Mail anywhere in the world when I travel, at home, at client sites, or at the office is very appealing.
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First, never *ever* name the computers after the function they do (e.g. Billing, Accounting, Support, Engineering, ...etc.) nor by the people that are using them (JohnB, GregC, ...etc.
Companies and divisions get merged or eliminated and you have to live with the misnomer. Also people move on, and name stays. We had a printer called Hashmi after the guy left the office (and eventually the whole company) for YEARS...
Also, never name the machines by their vendor, serial number, model, ...etc. Anyone remembers the machine called VAX somewhere in the UUCP mail days, and it got replaced by a Sun, but was still called VAX?
Some nice themes include:
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OK, this is not a direct answer to your problem, but looking at the bigger picture, you may be better off with a standalone firewall box between your private LAN and the outside world.
The following solutions center on a single floppy drive Linux implementation on a 486 machine.
I would take a look at the ShareTheNet which is a commercial package I have set up for clients, very stable and very fast (it is Linux on one floppy - costs 70$).
Also you can look at other free alternatives like Freesco and Ballantain.
All of them have mailing lists and/or web forums for support.
I am sure that there are many others, but these are the ones I tried. Ballantain had a problem with my modem, Freesco was very Alpha at the time, so I chose ShareTheNet (STN).
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