Yes, I have @HOME too. Because I use a firewall (free ZoneAlarm) I am relatively safe, in actuality. Intrusion attempts are common, usually daily. That scared me pretty deeply when I first installed ZoneAlarm. Now I'm sanguine. "I can see it coming".
Its also obvious from port# and IP that most are "simply" @HOME pings. Trouble is, how does a subcriber KNOW which is which?
Stephen King is doing well with the "Internet" shareware version of his new book, the PLANT.
Why is Stephen King doing this (open distribution)? To get more of his share of the cash that his literary creation makes.
The RIAA is worried that any musical artist can do this, and bypass RIAA's bank accounts.
Lets not forget Stephen King, who is now selling through the Internet (with this new book, The Plant). He is making money WITHOUT the "book recording and distribution" industries precisely according to the plan that Nicholas describes.
I was late in paying, but this weekend I paid my $3.00 - >almost straight to him. He has at least one firm working out the payment details (Amazon). The point is, he got most of the money this way. If I bought his book at 1/2 Price Bookstore or read it at the library (my two main sources of literature) he might see a penny or two.
"Promote"?! We would consider that a demotion at my company. UNfortunately, but that's the reality of it. I program in secret for fear that someone will get the crazy idea that I deserve to be moved into IT:)
I used to allow Netscape to follow and read my 'crashes', until AOL bought them. Since when has AOL been pro-consumer? They've always been about mass-marketing and profiting thusly.
Our company used Mac exclusively for several years ('89-'95). We had no trouble intra-office since we all used Microsoft Works. Don't laugh, it was a pretty powerful suite.
The problem which eventually pushed us to Windows95 (ouch) was that we could not easily open other company's documents. PDF has solved that problem for documents and presentations, but spreadsheets and databases effectively remain alien creatures.
Perhaps in the long run, OS X will bring Mac and PC users closer through OS X's use of a Unix-like kernel.
But in the short term (2000-2001) I don't see anything like the Linux revolution on the horizon for Mac. All Mac OS's have kept users isolated from the code underneath. Users have adapted to that environment. Remember that AOL has grown into a successful business because it its simple.
Mac OS's use the same plan: Cover the coding potholes with a pretty blanket and FLY over them. Ask a Mac user, and he'll say "Don't look under the blanket for any reason, you won't like it, trust me!"
Just put together a new Athlon 750 and installed 256 MB. On its first boot, the machine didn't even make it to the BIOS. Found out the "OEM" 128 MB memory was defective. Like Emil, I found the NEC memory was good; thus far, I'm running on the single remaining NEC stick. Maybe Athlons just like NEC. I can't associate any problems with Linux. I'm running Win98 on one hard drive, and Linux on another (clean boots from each). They both like NEC memory. And now, so do I.
Ran WinNT all weekend. Today (Jan 3 2000) I came off screen-saver, looked at my Outlook 98 and Excel programs. Both looked OK. I attempted to re-boot the machine, and it was very slow about quitting Outlook, a bad sign, but it did release.
After the reboot, Outlook failed to load. SHLWAPI.DLL was not found when LOADWC.EXE tried to load it. IE5 could not find SHLWAPI.DLL either. IE5 would not reload.
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Yes, I have @HOME too. Because I use a firewall (free ZoneAlarm) I am relatively safe, in actuality. Intrusion attempts are common, usually daily. That scared me pretty deeply when I first installed ZoneAlarm. Now I'm sanguine. "I can see it coming". Its also obvious from port# and IP that most are "simply" @HOME pings. Trouble is, how does a subcriber KNOW which is which?
Stephen King is doing well with the "Internet" shareware version of his new book, the PLANT. Why is Stephen King doing this (open distribution)? To get more of his share of the cash that his literary creation makes. The RIAA is worried that any musical artist can do this, and bypass RIAA's bank accounts.
Lets not forget Stephen King, who is now selling through the Internet (with this new book, The Plant). He is making money WITHOUT the "book recording and distribution" industries precisely according to the plan that Nicholas describes. I was late in paying, but this weekend I paid my $3.00 - >almost straight to him. He has at least one firm working out the payment details (Amazon). The point is, he got most of the money this way. If I bought his book at 1/2 Price Bookstore or read it at the library (my two main sources of literature) he might see a penny or two.
Here here. I'd be pissed, too. I don't even like it when someone changes the 'wallpaper'. But that's just me.
"Promote"?! We would consider that a demotion at my company. UNfortunately, but that's the reality of it. I program in secret for fear that someone will get the crazy idea that I deserve to be moved into IT :)
I used to allow Netscape to follow and read my 'crashes', until AOL bought them. Since when has AOL been pro-consumer? They've always been about mass-marketing and profiting thusly.
Our company used Mac exclusively for several years ('89-'95). We had no trouble intra-office since we all used Microsoft Works. Don't laugh, it was a pretty powerful suite.
The problem which eventually pushed us to Windows95 (ouch) was that we could not easily open other company's documents.
PDF has solved that problem for documents and presentations, but spreadsheets and databases effectively remain alien creatures.
Perhaps in the long run, OS X will bring Mac and PC users closer through OS X's use of a Unix-like kernel.
But in the short term (2000-2001) I don't see anything like the Linux revolution on the horizon for Mac. All Mac OS's have kept users isolated from the code underneath. Users have adapted to that environment. Remember that AOL has grown into a successful business because it its simple.
Mac OS's use the same plan: Cover the coding potholes with a pretty blanket and FLY over them. Ask a Mac user, and he'll say "Don't look under the blanket for any reason, you won't like it, trust me!"
Just put together a new Athlon 750 and installed 256 MB. On its first boot, the machine didn't even make it to the BIOS. Found out the "OEM" 128 MB memory was defective. Like Emil, I found the NEC memory was good; thus far, I'm running on the single remaining NEC stick. Maybe Athlons just like NEC. I can't associate any problems with Linux. I'm running Win98 on one hard drive, and Linux on another (clean boots from each). They both like NEC memory. And now, so do I.
Ran WinNT all weekend. Today (Jan 3 2000) I came off screen-saver, looked at my Outlook 98 and Excel programs. Both looked OK. I attempted to re-boot the machine, and it was very slow about quitting Outlook, a bad sign, but it did release.
After the reboot, Outlook failed to load. SHLWAPI.DLL was not found when LOADWC.EXE tried to load it. IE5 could not find SHLWAPI.DLL either. IE5 would not reload.
We had to re-ghost the OS....
Yo ho ho, an excellent take on this Katz guy.