This may work fine for the/.'rs or K5'rs out there that are willing to wade through a sea of links to get some ads turned off and such. I like the Karma idea though, but how would this be tracked on a per user basis and would people at that point not start screaming bloody murder about your tracking of what banner is shown on which system? Personally, I don't give a rats ass but others will. Or did I simply read this wrong in my effort to get first post?:D
Joe McGuire, tinfoil.music
http://music.tinfoil.net Joe McGuire
tinfoil.music
This has been done before, albeit on a smaller scale. There is (was?) a passenger service in the Vancouver / Victoria BC (Canada) area that uses a high speed craft as well, though not nearly these speeds. It is great for open water, but once it get's anywhere near a shoreline it was forced down to regular speeds as the wake produced by such a craft at such speeds is tremendous. Joe McGuire
tinfoil.music
Ok. I am at a loss as to how this could really effect Linux. Sure Linus works for Transmeta, and I am sure he is damn good at what he does. If anything, AMD could punt him (with a hefty severence package) and he would have more time to work on his pet creation. Or he could go to work for one of the many Linux cash-grab companies out there. Orrr, AMD could think; "Hell, we have Linus on the payroll. That can't be a bad thing." I just love how soo many stories get manipulated in such a way that the smallest association with Linux actually turns into the main content. I would be more concerned as to what will happen to those Crusoe (sp?) chips. Will AMD swallow it up into a K6-4? K7-Mobile-2? Or will it continue as a brand with AMD using some of the (very good) tech knowledge in their own products. *sigh*
tinfoil.music
http://music.tinfoil.net Joe McGuire
tinfoil.music
People bitch and moan about MS being a monopoly, well methinks they and the IOC have studied together. What in the hell does the IOC do with all that money? Do they help the hosting city build the stadiums and such? Ok, those medals probably do cost a few buck each... But still, that would be a sweet job.
OpenSource the Olympics! (in case you have not heard ENOUGH about OpenSource)
Here's a few that work (and some are taken)
Whois
Domain fuckthis.ca
Organisation TCI
Registrar Tucows International Corp.
Date received 2000/11/18
Date approved 2000/11/18
Yet,
Domain fuck.ca is not available.
01043 Domain name is restricted
Hrmm?
Domain fucker.ca
Organisation most wanted domains, inc.
Registrar Echelon Internet Corp.
Date received 2000/11/09
Date approved 2000/11/09
Last changed 2000/11/12
And yet another:
Domain shithead.ca
Organisation Jaiveer Singh
Registrar Tucows International Corp.
Date received 2000/11/09
Date approved 2000/11/09
Last changed 2000/11/12
Does anyone know about the nature of this fungus? If it can live in the atmosphere, and the lack thereof, outside the station, I would be concerned on the effects it may have in the ocean/on earth. This is obviously a pretty strong willed little beastie.
Sure it's legit. Think about it. Your the boss at some new company, and a coder working for you comes up with some whiz-bang new idea while working for you. You start dumping huge cash into advertising, money signs in your eyes. Now, the coder quits and decides to do this on his own. Were it that he owned the code and not you (because he did this for work and on company time) he could sue your ass for loyalties. But, since you own it, the shoe is on the other foot.
Now, I know this is a different situation.. kinda. You work for them. My Sister-in-law is a Masters student in Biotech. and the university is paying her. They may be a (partially) publicly funded school, but they still do make money from what you do. In all fairness, you should be getting a good bonus if they are making all kindsa cashish. But, that would require morals.
/.'s articles are primarily based on articles by other people, boiled down into an uberconcentrated format for us to digest, reguratate (sp) and absorb into our info-starved minds.
True be it that people should start taking responsibility for what they do,/. is not among those as they are only collecting articles that they believe were published in good faith.
Indeed, these times it seems that no one wants to take accountability for what they do. Last time I took my Grand Prix GTP to the car wash, my rear spoiler got cracked because one of their machine decided to break, falling on my car. What did the owner say? The sign says "We are not responsible for ANY damage done to your vehicle" What did I say? Talk to my lawyer, dumbass. He did, and I got a new spoiler. Had this been a huge company and had I not been the easily-angered and very stubborn Irishman that I am, I would not have gotten one cent from them.
Where am I going with this? There IS no accountability anymore for anything. If/. posts an article about a company that has invented some mindblowing new product, and you in turn sink your second mortgage into said companie's stock, only to find out that the article was based on (here's the catch kiddies) ANOTHER (clear enough?)publication's articly was a hoax or was misleading, can you sue/.? No, you should sue the bank that gave your dumb ass the second mortgage.
What is the point of this? Whilst the IBM Unix's may not be the most popular, they are still damn solid and there are ALOT of applications out there that just plain won't run on linux (and perhaps won't due to age and such). The way I see it, if this rumour were to turn out to be true, IBM would be shooting themselves in their foot as customers will look at it and say "Hell, I can get an RH system anywhere, and for a helluvalot less" Sure, it may not have the same guts in there, but you won't be paying nearly as much. Would someone drop $15,000-$20,000 on an RS/6000 (which my company is currently looking at) when they find out it comes with a free OS? Hell no, I will put together my own dual or quad intel box and pop FreeBSD (or atleast Debian) on it and take the rest of the cashish and head on vacation. Or maybe a dual/quad G4 on OSX
Something about this just don't sound right. IBM can't be that friggen stupid. Linux support on lowend servers would be great, but I am not willing to set my entire network up on Linux *JUST* yet.
Internet Appliance is a ratehr enigmatic term. Would you want the Apple Cube to be put into the same class as, say, WebTV? Not I. The Cube is an impressive. WebTV.. No. On another note, while it would be nice to see the Apple to use a custom Athlon (without the x86 translation) rumour hold true, Apple really just has to threaten to take their business elsewhere and Motorola will likely shape up.
Welcome back to the days of CoCos, Commies, Amigas and Macs. We have a number of tiny-ish companies with great ideas that will unfortunatly go the way of the Amiga. IBM had more money at the time and was able to better market an inferior machine. These devices, as cool as they are, will not progress to a respectable level (though this new one does actually have SOME promise, even if it is vapour). My question is how the hell they can do it with a mere 10 watts? WOW! Now if only there was a way to directly address the risc-esque core of the intel and amd chips, while still being able to address the translation units to keep backwards compatability. That would be something to shoot for as the translation (and the units that facilitate that) eat up ALOT of juice and produce ALOT of heat.
Intel is on a downward spiral folks. For the longest time it seemed as though they could do nothing wrong, then cam PPro which was a fine chip, but not what was needed. Ok, it was the software makers that shot that one down. Fast forward to the i820 screw up. I had 5 systems affected by that. Nope, not at all impressed. Oh, let's not forget about the serial number issue. Then there was the P3 1.13 screw up. And shall we discuss the P4 setbacks? Rambus? ZX chipset? I am sure I have missed something? Oh ya. first generation celeron (except the the insance oc'ers out there). What's next Intel?
Number of good points I did not realize. First, I did not know about Intel was RISC inside as well. Point also about the Altivec instructs. But, one does have to admit that something should be changing and soon. Being that I am a mostly portably user, I have been looking fondly at the PPC's and their next to nill power usage. Sure, we have transmeta coming, but that is just a good idea so far, not something I would buy. There is alot of inefficiencies in the current crop of x86 chips.
Oh, and I am not some computer archiect grad. I just like to pretend that I is one;)
intel is playing catch up in a market that has been around for too long anyways. the x96 isa, as I am sure most of you already know, has been on life support for a number of years now. Yet, the family doesn't want to pull the plug just yet--it may start breathing again any time soon. Look at the PPC chip. Sure, motorola is having some problems bumping it up to current standards but it is still one hell of a chip. It compares favourably to even the best of the x86 chips out there and generates less than a 10th of the heat. AMD *WAS* on the right track when they first introduced the Athlon. At the core it is a risc-esque chip with hardware translation. Too bad the risc-like core is not accessable. Imagine a chip that could do both? Now that I have read the specs on the Sledghammer I am no longer holding my breath though. A risc-like core that maintains compatability to the old 16 and 32 bit code will adding 64 bit code - all to be translated back into AMD's core code.
It's dead. Let ot go with what is left of it's dignity before you pilleage it all.
Now, I am not a lawyer here, but it seems to me that they can not sell the information they may have on me prior to their changing the privacy policy. I agreed and signed up prior to that so my info prior to that should be safe. Should I buy anything from there in the future (not likely now) then yes, perhaps they can sell it. Though, only if they bring up the modified privacy agreement prior to me hitting the big OK button. What do you guys think?
What these PalmOS devices need is a standard formfactor for expansion. Wince devices have CompactFlash and/or PCMCIA. If I wanted to, I could pop the D-Link NIC outta my laptop and into one of the many Wince machines out there that have that slot and hook up to my lan here at work. Oh wait, is there a Wince Novell client yet? n/m. But, the point of it being that the Springboard idea isn't bad but proprietary so it is nothing but a cash grab. Palm still has the better PalmOS device (I really do like the IIIc) but is even worse for expansion. When will they learn? Don't emulate the Wince machines (Gawd no) but atleast give us some of the features.
Where is the sense of responsibility gone these days? No more "Oh, I messed up. Let me fix that for you". Hell, even HTML for Dummies advocates the use of ALT tags (No, I do not use them, shame on Joe). IBM is certainly, totally, unquestionably responsible. They expect a bunch of buerocrats to know what the hell and ALT tag is? What it is to be used for?
IBM, you messed up. Time to take responsibility for your own actions
please explain the purpose behind this demand? How exactly does an ALT tag help Human rights and Equal opportunities?
There are a number of programs out there that will read the contents of a web page (including the hidden ALT="" tags out so that blind (or visually impaired) people can still enjoy the website.
Having been a manager at a computer shop, I have seen many people coming in with computers purchased under a year ago that were, quite frankly, pieces of shit. Many of these people bought systems from now defunct copmuter shops.
One customer bought a system (out of town). She had forgotten her speakers and went back to pick them up only to find a closed sign and no contact information for warranties. This sort of Fly-By-Night customer exploitation cuts into the profitability of honest computer shops and takes advantage of customers. Ge their money and get out. Sure, it will likely raise the price of computers, but only so that companies out there have to use quality components.
As far as problems with the software, I don't think that that will be part of it. Only the stuff that the shop can control. I could not control what windows would do if the user did such and such a thing. I could not possibly remember all the BSOD and error codes, it should not be the responibility of the reseller to support software that they themselves did not write. That's MS's job.
And damnit! Windows is a perfectly good OS for many, MANY, people out there. I can not remember the last time windows died on me. Not saying that Linux is not a viable alternative (not saying it is though either, as I sure as hell wouldn;t want my parents, in-laws and grandparents using it (imagine the phone calls? egads)). I am also not saying that windows is perfect. So far for many users, it is the lesser of two evils.
Ugh. The elitest attitude of some of these posts is, quite disturbing.
I have been using various *nix's for a number of years. From SCO in high school and College to Slackware 3.2 and RH 5 and FreeBSD 3 on my home puter. It is a great OS. And AOL coming to Linux can be a good thing if one thinks about it. It isn't just newbies using AOL *GASP* it is also made up of many people who are using it because either work or parents pay for it. Nothing like free internet access. There are also many places where AOL is the only (decent) choice. When AOL first came to town here, it was a better and faster solution than the generic ISP's. Who do you think I went with?
Did I curse and complain that it wasn;t available or *nix? No. At that time it just wasn't possible to do in *nix what I could in windows so I was in windows to do work. Now that Linux has become a viable alternative to Windows people like AOL are taking notice and allowing for those people who are using AOL for one reason or another to use it AND Linux at the same time.
If people want Linux to take over Windows, they are going to have to accept that the companies that will be affected by this will also want to get on the bandwagon. It is simply self-preservation.
And now I am seeing anymosity towards RedHat. Why is this? Could it be that one of the companies who helped bring Linux to the fore-front is now being regarded as monopolistic because they are making money? People do have to do that you know.
The greater the number of mainstream apps that come to Linux means a greater number of users and less reason to have to keep that Windows partition on the system.
The bottom line is that you have brought this on yourself by choosing to go your own way. If you are not going to run their supported configuration, there is no point in buying from VA -- buy from whoever's cheapest instead.
I have a number of Compaq Proliant servers of various ilk, all runnin Novell (all comments go plaff) and you know what? compaq gives me great tech support. They send along starter disks, manuals specific for their hardware and Novell. That is how it should be.
If I was one of those cops getting feces tossed at my nogging, you can damn well bet that I would have done the same thing. Come on, the right to protest isn;t meant for garbage like what happened here. Sure, there were some peacefull protesters but they were unfortunatly lost in the fray of unintelligent, mob-following peons that went along with the cause just because they got to do some damage. Grow up people. Your forefathers did not have this in mind when they gave you the rite to do this.
Just my 0.02... I am not american, in case you were wondering.
News for Nerds - my $#@!
Lets start a petition to keep SlashDot politics free. Granted such discussions generate lots of heat and lots of Banner Ad exposures.
Slashdot Mirror
This may work fine for the /.'rs or K5'rs out there that are willing to wade through a sea of links to get some ads turned off and such. I like the Karma idea though, but how would this be tracked on a per user basis and would people at that point not start screaming bloody murder about your tracking of what banner is shown on which system? Personally, I don't give a rats ass but others will. Or did I simply read this wrong in my effort to get first post? :D
Joe McGuire, tinfoil.music http://music.tinfoil.net
Joe McGuire
tinfoil.music
This has been done before, albeit on a smaller scale. There is (was?) a passenger service in the Vancouver / Victoria BC (Canada) area that uses a high speed craft as well, though not nearly these speeds. It is great for open water, but once it get's anywhere near a shoreline it was forced down to regular speeds as the wake produced by such a craft at such speeds is tremendous.
Joe McGuire
tinfoil.music
Ok. I am at a loss as to how this could really effect Linux. Sure Linus works for Transmeta, and I am sure he is damn good at what he does. If anything, AMD could punt him (with a hefty severence package) and he would have more time to work on his pet creation. Or he could go to work for one of the many Linux cash-grab companies out there. Orrr, AMD could think; "Hell, we have Linus on the payroll. That can't be a bad thing." I just love how soo many stories get manipulated in such a way that the smallest association with Linux actually turns into the main content. I would be more concerned as to what will happen to those Crusoe (sp?) chips. Will AMD swallow it up into a K6-4? K7-Mobile-2? Or will it continue as a brand with AMD using some of the (very good) tech knowledge in their own products. *sigh* tinfoil.music http://music.tinfoil.net
Joe McGuire
tinfoil.music
People bitch and moan about MS being a monopoly, well methinks they and the IOC have studied together. What in the hell does the IOC do with all that money? Do they help the hosting city build the stadiums and such? Ok, those medals probably do cost a few buck each... But still, that would be a sweet job.
OpenSource the Olympics! (in case you have not heard ENOUGH about OpenSource)
Here's a few that work (and some are taken)
Whois
Domain fuckthis.ca
Organisation TCI
Registrar Tucows International Corp.
Date received 2000/11/18
Date approved 2000/11/18
Yet,
Domain fuck.ca is not available.
01043 Domain name is restricted
Hrmm? Domain fucker.ca
Organisation most wanted domains, inc.
Registrar Echelon Internet Corp.
Date received 2000/11/09
Date approved 2000/11/09
Last changed 2000/11/12
And yet another:
Domain shithead.ca
Organisation Jaiveer Singh
Registrar Tucows International Corp.
Date received 2000/11/09
Date approved 2000/11/09
Last changed 2000/11/12
So far, 3 for 4.. Too bad they are all taken.
Does anyone know about the nature of this fungus? If it can live in the atmosphere, and the lack thereof, outside the station, I would be concerned on the effects it may have in the ocean/on earth. This is obviously a pretty strong willed little beastie.
Sure it's legit. Think about it. Your the boss at some new company, and a coder working for you comes up with some whiz-bang new idea while working for you. You start dumping huge cash into advertising, money signs in your eyes. Now, the coder quits and decides to do this on his own. Were it that he owned the code and not you (because he did this for work and on company time) he could sue your ass for loyalties. But, since you own it, the shoe is on the other foot.
Now, I know this is a different situation.. kinda. You work for them. My Sister-in-law is a Masters student in Biotech. and the university is paying her. They may be a (partially) publicly funded school, but they still do make money from what you do. In all fairness, you should be getting a good bonus if they are making all kindsa cashish. But, that would require morals.
/.'s articles are primarily based on articles by other people, boiled down into an uberconcentrated format for us to digest, reguratate (sp) and absorb into our info-starved minds.
True be it that people should start taking responsibility for what they do,Indeed, these times it seems that no one wants to take accountability for what they do. Last time I took my Grand Prix GTP to the car wash, my rear spoiler got cracked because one of their machine decided to break, falling on my car. What did the owner say? The sign says "We are not responsible for ANY damage done to your vehicle" What did I say? Talk to my lawyer, dumbass. He did, and I got a new spoiler. Had this been a huge company and had I not been the easily-angered and very stubborn Irishman that I am, I would not have gotten one cent from them.
Where am I going with this? There IS no accountability anymore for anything. If /. posts an article about a company that has invented some mindblowing new product, and you in turn sink your second mortgage into said companie's stock, only to find out that the article was based on (here's the catch kiddies) ANOTHER (clear enough?)publication's articly was a hoax or was misleading, can you sue /.? No, you should sue the bank that gave your dumb ass the second mortgage.
What is the point of this? Whilst the IBM Unix's may not be the most popular, they are still damn solid and there are ALOT of applications out there that just plain won't run on linux (and perhaps won't due to age and such). The way I see it, if this rumour were to turn out to be true, IBM would be shooting themselves in their foot as customers will look at it and say "Hell, I can get an RH system anywhere, and for a helluvalot less" Sure, it may not have the same guts in there, but you won't be paying nearly as much. Would someone drop $15,000-$20,000 on an RS/6000 (which my company is currently looking at) when they find out it comes with a free OS? Hell no, I will put together my own dual or quad intel box and pop FreeBSD (or atleast Debian) on it and take the rest of the cashish and head on vacation. Or maybe a dual/quad G4 on OSX
Something about this just don't sound right. IBM can't be that friggen stupid. Linux support on lowend servers would be great, but I am not willing to set my entire network up on Linux *JUST* yet.
Internet Appliance is a ratehr enigmatic term. Would you want the Apple Cube to be put into the same class as, say, WebTV? Not I. The Cube is an impressive. WebTV.. No. On another note, while it would be nice to see the Apple to use a custom Athlon (without the x86 translation) rumour hold true, Apple really just has to threaten to take their business elsewhere and Motorola will likely shape up.
Welcome back to the days of CoCos, Commies, Amigas and Macs. We have a number of tiny-ish companies with great ideas that will unfortunatly go the way of the Amiga. IBM had more money at the time and was able to better market an inferior machine. These devices, as cool as they are, will not progress to a respectable level (though this new one does actually have SOME promise, even if it is vapour). My question is how the hell they can do it with a mere 10 watts? WOW! Now if only there was a way to directly address the risc-esque core of the intel and amd chips, while still being able to address the translation units to keep backwards compatability. That would be something to shoot for as the translation (and the units that facilitate that) eat up ALOT of juice and produce ALOT of heat.
Intel is on a downward spiral folks. For the longest time it seemed as though they could do nothing wrong, then cam PPro which was a fine chip, but not what was needed. Ok, it was the software makers that shot that one down. Fast forward to the i820 screw up. I had 5 systems affected by that. Nope, not at all impressed. Oh, let's not forget about the serial number issue. Then there was the P3 1.13 screw up. And shall we discuss the P4 setbacks? Rambus? ZX chipset? I am sure I have missed something? Oh ya. first generation celeron (except the the insance oc'ers out there). What's next Intel?
Number of good points I did not realize. First, I did not know about Intel was RISC inside as well. Point also about the Altivec instructs. But, one does have to admit that something should be changing and soon. Being that I am a mostly portably user, I have been looking fondly at the PPC's and their next to nill power usage. Sure, we have transmeta coming, but that is just a good idea so far, not something I would buy. There is alot of inefficiencies in the current crop of x86 chips.
Oh, and I am not some computer archiect grad. I just like to pretend that I is one ;)
intel is playing catch up in a market that has been around for too long anyways. the x96 isa, as I am sure most of you already know, has been on life support for a number of years now. Yet, the family doesn't want to pull the plug just yet--it may start breathing again any time soon. Look at the PPC chip. Sure, motorola is having some problems bumping it up to current standards but it is still one hell of a chip. It compares favourably to even the best of the x86 chips out there and generates less than a 10th of the heat. AMD *WAS* on the right track when they first introduced the Athlon. At the core it is a risc-esque chip with hardware translation. Too bad the risc-like core is not accessable. Imagine a chip that could do both? Now that I have read the specs on the Sledghammer I am no longer holding my breath though. A risc-like core that maintains compatability to the old 16 and 32 bit code will adding 64 bit code - all to be translated back into AMD's core code.
It's dead. Let ot go with what is left of it's dignity before you pilleage it all.
Now, I am not a lawyer here, but it seems to me that they can not sell the information they may have on me prior to their changing the privacy policy. I agreed and signed up prior to that so my info prior to that should be safe. Should I buy anything from there in the future (not likely now) then yes, perhaps they can sell it. Though, only if they bring up the modified privacy agreement prior to me hitting the big OK button. What do you guys think?
What these PalmOS devices need is a standard formfactor for expansion. Wince devices have CompactFlash and/or PCMCIA. If I wanted to, I could pop the D-Link NIC outta my laptop and into one of the many Wince machines out there that have that slot and hook up to my lan here at work. Oh wait, is there a Wince Novell client yet? n/m. But, the point of it being that the Springboard idea isn't bad but proprietary so it is nothing but a cash grab. Palm still has the better PalmOS device (I really do like the IIIc) but is even worse for expansion. When will they learn? Don't emulate the Wince machines (Gawd no) but atleast give us some of the features.
Where is the sense of responsibility gone these days? No more "Oh, I messed up. Let me fix that for you". Hell, even HTML for Dummies advocates the use of ALT tags (No, I do not use them, shame on Joe). IBM is certainly, totally, unquestionably responsible. They expect a bunch of buerocrats to know what the hell and ALT tag is? What it is to be used for?
IBM, you messed up. Time to take responsibility for your own actions
please explain the purpose behind this demand? How exactly does an ALT tag help Human rights and Equal opportunities?
There are a number of programs out there that will read the contents of a web page (including the hidden ALT="" tags out so that blind (or visually impaired) people can still enjoy the website.
Having been a manager at a computer shop, I have seen many people coming in with computers purchased under a year ago that were, quite frankly, pieces of shit. Many of these people bought systems from now defunct copmuter shops.
One customer bought a system (out of town). She had forgotten her speakers and went back to pick them up only to find a closed sign and no contact information for warranties. This sort of Fly-By-Night customer exploitation cuts into the profitability of honest computer shops and takes advantage of customers. Ge their money and get out. Sure, it will likely raise the price of computers, but only so that companies out there have to use quality components.As far as problems with the software, I don't think that that will be part of it. Only the stuff that the shop can control. I could not control what windows would do if the user did such and such a thing. I could not possibly remember all the BSOD and error codes, it should not be the responibility of the reseller to support software that they themselves did not write. That's MS's job.
And damnit! Windows is a perfectly good OS for many, MANY, people out there. I can not remember the last time windows died on me. Not saying that Linux is not a viable alternative (not saying it is though either, as I sure as hell wouldn;t want my parents, in-laws and grandparents using it (imagine the phone calls? egads)). I am also not saying that windows is perfect. So far for many users, it is the lesser of two evils.
Ugh. The elitest attitude of some of these posts is, quite disturbing.
I have been using various *nix's for a number of years. From SCO in high school and College to Slackware 3.2 and RH 5 and FreeBSD 3 on my home puter. It is a great OS. And AOL coming to Linux can be a good thing if one thinks about it. It isn't just newbies using AOL *GASP* it is also made up of many people who are using it because either work or parents pay for it. Nothing like free internet access. There are also many places where AOL is the only (decent) choice. When AOL first came to town here, it was a better and faster solution than the generic ISP's. Who do you think I went with?
Did I curse and complain that it wasn;t available or *nix? No. At that time it just wasn't possible to do in *nix what I could in windows so I was in windows to do work. Now that Linux has become a viable alternative to Windows people like AOL are taking notice and allowing for those people who are using AOL for one reason or another to use it AND Linux at the same time.
If people want Linux to take over Windows, they are going to have to accept that the companies that will be affected by this will also want to get on the bandwagon. It is simply self-preservation.
And now I am seeing anymosity towards RedHat. Why is this? Could it be that one of the companies who helped bring Linux to the fore-front is now being regarded as monopolistic because they are making money? People do have to do that you know.
The greater the number of mainstream apps that come to Linux means a greater number of users and less reason to have to keep that Windows partition on the system.
The bottom line is that you have brought this on yourself by choosing to go your own way. If you are not going to run their supported configuration, there is no point in buying from VA -- buy from whoever's cheapest instead.
I have a number of Compaq Proliant servers of various ilk, all runnin Novell (all comments go plaff) and you know what? compaq gives me great tech support. They send along starter disks, manuals specific for their hardware and Novell. That is how it should be.
No one deserves police brutality
If I was one of those cops getting feces tossed at my nogging, you can damn well bet that I would have done the same thing. Come on, the right to protest isn;t meant for garbage like what happened here. Sure, there were some peacefull protesters but they were unfortunatly lost in the fray of unintelligent, mob-following peons that went along with the cause just because they got to do some damage. Grow up people. Your forefathers did not have this in mind when they gave you the rite to do this.
Just my 0.02... I am not american, in case you were wondering.
News for Nerds - my $#@! Lets start a petition to keep SlashDot politics free. Granted such discussions generate lots of heat and lots of Banner Ad exposures.
You didnt have to click on the link now did you?
More like...post whatever will generate a lot ok pageviews. What happend to the old Slashdot???
Must nerds be ignorant to what happens outside the world of computers?