$150 buys a 30GB drive these days. Oh, wait, those all seem to be backordered, but you can settle for 40GB for $135 and have it tomorrow. Much more reliable than compressed filesystems, I'd imagine...
Open Source undermines intellectual property (which is true)
No, it's not. Open source is a choice the developer makes to explicitly share their intellectual property. The fact that I can write my own software based on yours has nothing to do with Bill's intellectual property.
It sounds like Allchin wants the govt to regulate free software, rather than letting the market decide. Now that's un-American!
When you demand more and more features from your product, it becomes exponentially more difficult to test every possible sequence of commands. Testing is important, but it's not the answer.
I can't help with the float, but as for the monthly fee, skip Yahoo and head to Net.B@nk. They offer free payment through Checkfree, and no monthly fee for bill payment or for their standard checking account, which pays ~3% annually. The local banks around here (Boston) can't touch them. Disclaimer: I don't work for them, just a (mostly) satisfied customer.
As I pointed out before, he keeps trying to imply that Linus is senior management at Transmeta. He knows this is wrong, doesn't he?
Maybe he doesn't know. I was kind of surprised to hear a BBC radio report on the day of Transmeta's big splash... they made it sound like he was the boss.
How much is "pricey?" The WebGear Aviator2.4 which everyone here likes is also an OEM version of the Raytheon RayLink, but it's much cheaper... I paid `$140 at CompUSA for the 2-card kit. Online most shops seem to want >$300 for one card from Raytheon.
Most current distros don't include the driver, but it is in the 2.3 kernels, so eventually life will get easier. Meanwhile, it can be installed without too much trouble. Linux to Windows networking works like a charm... I'm typing this on a Win98 laptop connected via WebGear & ipchains through my linux desktop machine. (Of course both machines have Win98 and Linux-Mandrake 7.0, but at the moment...)
WebGear even provides the Linux driver on their Web site. I had better luck with the one on the author's web site, though.
I bought a 14-CD set of RealAudio files made from taped lectures. I wanted to convert them to.WAV files for burning on rewritable CDs, then later to MP3s after I bought a Rio 500. I paid RealNetworks $30 for RealJukebox Plus, only to find that the advertised conversion feature doesn't work with mono files. RealNetworks gave me a refund, and I used it to buy Streambox Ripper (well, it was called RA2WAV at the time), which works well for my needs.
The lawsuit really scared me... if RN wins in court, do I have to give up my conversion tool? Nice to see the courts smiling in the right direction. Thanks for posting the news on/. and improving my sanity for today.
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He can still retire it if he replaces it with your *current* logo.
This morning around 10 AM, on WBZ Radio (Boston), they said they had enough for today but be sure to come back tomorrow.
Maybe that's why solitaire and freecell were among the first apps running OK on WINE.
$150 buys a 30GB drive these days. Oh, wait, those all seem to be backordered, but you can settle for 40GB for $135 and have it tomorrow. Much more reliable than compressed filesystems, I'd imagine...
No, it's not. Open source is a choice the developer makes to explicitly share their intellectual property. The fact that I can write my own software based on yours has nothing to do with Bill's intellectual property. It sounds like Allchin wants the govt to regulate free software, rather than letting the market decide. Now that's un-American!
When I was your age, I didn't even have my 300bps Commodore modem yet.
my humble 166Mhz linux box (which I got a new 20GB drive for tuesday..finally, free space).
Disk space is good. Long live disk space!
When you demand more and more features from your product, it becomes exponentially more difficult to test every possible sequence of commands. Testing is important, but it's not the answer.
Anybody know when they'll release one for Solaris? Or are they leaving that to Mozilla?
My wife and I use the download edition of SO5.1a at home, with documents on a FAT32 partition, and we never had these problems.
I can't help with the float, but as for the monthly fee, skip Yahoo and head to Net.B@nk. They offer free payment through Checkfree, and no monthly fee for bill payment or for their standard checking account, which pays ~3% annually. The local banks around here (Boston) can't touch them. Disclaimer: I don't work for them, just a (mostly) satisfied customer.
Maybe he doesn't know. I was kind of surprised to hear a BBC radio report on the day of Transmeta's big splash... they made it sound like he was the boss.
Most current distros don't include the driver, but it is in the 2.3 kernels, so eventually life will get easier. Meanwhile, it can be installed without too much trouble. Linux to Windows networking works like a charm... I'm typing this on a Win98 laptop connected via WebGear & ipchains through my linux desktop machine. (Of course both machines have Win98 and Linux-Mandrake 7.0, but at the moment...)
WebGear even provides the Linux driver on their Web site. I had better luck with the one on the author's web site, though.
The lawsuit really scared me... if RN wins in court, do I have to give up my conversion tool? Nice to see the courts smiling in the right direction. Thanks for posting the news on /. and improving my sanity for today.