If Linux sneaks into your network,
just standartize company email
and calendaring system on MS Exchange/MS
Outlook and send all internal documentation
in MS Word, Excel and Power Point formats
exclusively. Thank should take care
of it.
Re:Open Content Usenet initiative
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Most serious ISPs have USENET service
access to which is free for their
customers. Netcom, AT&T @HOME, come
to mind as examples.
I have nothing against WWW interface to USENET
as yet another access method. What I do not
like is being fed BS about expensive USENET
software. It is cost of storage and bandwith
which makes USENET expensive for ISPs. So,
you putting all your USENET articles into DB engine,
and serving them over HTTP will save you neither
disk space not bandwidth. (In fact it will take
more bandwith, due to HTML decorations and "sponsor messages").
Re:Open Content Usenet initiative
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> To make this possible we cut the
> cost of news reading by eliminating
> the special news software at the
> access provider. We cover our expences
> with small sponsor messages on
> some locations of this site.
What?! There a tons on excellent free
USENET news software, like INN.
I dunno about others, but I am not quite
ready yet to replace my convinient news
reading software with crappy HTML forms
interface with "sponson messages" on it.
This is good news for me indeed. I have
PGP key which was generated 5 years ago
with RSA algorithm. I am using it in several
places and do not really want to have new key
generated.
I hope this news will allow me to use my old
PGP key in GPG.
When linux started it was alternative OS (hate this term) opposing market dominant OSes like Windows, OS/2 etc. Slowly Linux won it's war and slowly started moving to establishment (for various reasons *BSD opted not to win this battle). This gained Linux bigger software base, corporate recognition etc. However new role of "mainstream" OS and some implications of such role ("make software every idion can use and only idios will use it") does not fit profile of some early adopters who used to view themselfs as underground culture. They used to have OS which is tuned for their needs not needs of average desctop user. They like to be in minority. They like to be unique experts.
I've said to friend around year ago that soon many of those hackers will start looking for "other", less mainstream OS to adopt. Luckily *BSD is there. Now I see my predictions come true: I see more interest in *BSD in Linux community. Hey, I am considering myself installing OpenBSD on my Sparc 1+ firewall instead of Solaris!
P.S. I am using *BSD since 386BSD, but because of convinience of pre-compiled packages and bigger supported software base slowly shifted to Linux as my primary platform.
Since Java appeared on Linux I am builing RPM packages for each new release (for internal use). Hope some day SUN will ship RPMs.
Good news is that IBM JDK does come as RPMs!
Another sad thing about Javasoft, is that they increasinly become MS-centric. They release 1.3 for Windows first, with Solaris (and Linux) version still not ready! If I were project manager at the SUN, I would never let this happen. After all Solaris is their own product and it makes sense to support it first.
What is it about guns and computers? Every other day I see some article about some guy shooting some piece of hardware. Is that some kind of Freudian stuff? Desire to shot something causing you much frustration?
I can see.tv locals, 3 years ahead, when Internet revolution will finally reach them, paying big bucks to register name under thier own country domain to some foreing corporation.
It mentions USB port in specs. I am wondering does this USB port allows only to connect this PDA to computer, or does it also allows to connect various devices to PDA?
Connecting USB keyboard or ZIP drive could be pretty cool option!
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, they are older than time_t.
Perhaps there will be no Mozilla 1.0 at all. ;)
Maybe Netscape use Mozilla as workhorse
to develop new code to be released under
Netscape label.
Few things which are absolutely required:
1. WWW frontend.
2. PDA sync.
3. Email Notifications (about appointment set
to you by somebody).
If Linux sneaks into your network,
just standartize company email
and calendaring system on MS Exchange/MS
Outlook and send all internal documentation
in MS Word, Excel and Power Point formats
exclusively. Thank should take care
of it.
Most serious ISPs have USENET service
access to which is free for their
customers. Netcom, AT&T @HOME, come
to mind as examples.
I have nothing against WWW interface to USENET
as yet another access method. What I do not
like is being fed BS about expensive USENET
software. It is cost of storage and bandwith
which makes USENET expensive for ISPs. So,
you putting all your USENET articles into DB engine,
and serving them over HTTP will save you neither
disk space not bandwidth. (In fact it will take
more bandwith, due to HTML decorations and "sponsor messages").
> To make this possible we cut the
> cost of news reading by eliminating
> the special news software at the
> access provider. We cover our expences
> with small sponsor messages on
> some locations of this site.
What?! There a tons on excellent free
USENET news software, like INN.
I dunno about others, but I am not quite
ready yet to replace my convinient news
reading software with crappy HTML forms
interface with "sponson messages" on it.
Wasn't new gcc part of redhat 7 beta
which was on their ftp for a while?
It's X Window.
I have key generated like this:
ype Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024/2A52BD8D 1996/07/23 Vadim Zaliva
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.6.3a
Will GPG will be able to handle it? Does
it use IDEA?
This is good news for me indeed. I have
PGP key which was generated 5 years ago
with RSA algorithm. I am using it in several
places and do not really want to have new key
generated.
I hope this news will allow me to use my old
PGP key in GPG.
I am so tired of Napster news on slashdot.
Could we create separate "Napster whining"
section so I can switch it off in my preferences?
Not that I am do not care about the freedom
of speach, but I do not use damned thing - I have
my minidiscs and happy with them.
I wish they used LinuxConf as backend.
It it good to have many frontends, but
many backends is bad thing IMO.
When linux started it was alternative OS (hate
this term) opposing market dominant OSes like
Windows, OS/2 etc. Slowly Linux won it's war
and slowly started moving to establishment (for various reasons *BSD opted not to win this battle). This
gained Linux bigger software base, corporate recognition etc. However new role of "mainstream" OS and some implications of such role ("make software every idion can use and only idios will use it") does not fit profile of some early adopters who used to view themselfs as underground
culture. They used to have OS which is tuned for their needs not needs of average desctop user. They like to be in minority. They like to be unique experts.
I've said to friend around year ago that soon many
of those hackers will start looking for "other", less mainstream OS to adopt. Luckily *BSD is there. Now I see my predictions come true: I see more interest in *BSD in Linux community. Hey, I am considering myself installing OpenBSD on my Sparc 1+ firewall instead of Solaris!
P.S. I am using *BSD since 386BSD, but because of convinience of pre-compiled packages and bigger supported software base slowly shifted to Linux as my primary platform.
Since Java appeared on Linux I am builing
RPM packages for each new release (for
internal use). Hope some day SUN will ship
RPMs.
Good news is that IBM JDK does come as RPMs!
Another sad thing about Javasoft, is that they increasinly become MS-centric. They release 1.3
for Windows first, with Solaris (and Linux) version still not ready! If I were project manager
at the SUN, I would never let this happen. After
all Solaris is their own product and it makes sense to support it first.
What is it about guns and computers?
Every other day I see some article
about some guy shooting some piece of hardware.
Is that some kind of Freudian stuff? Desire to shot something causing you much frustration?
P.S. I do not shot old SUNs - I use them.
I can see .tv locals, 3 years ahead, when
Internet revolution will finally reach them,
paying big bucks to register name under thier
own country domain to some foreing corporation.
Hi!
It mentions USB port in specs. I am wondering
does this USB port allows only to connect this
PDA to computer, or does it also allows to
connect various devices to PDA?
Connecting USB keyboard or ZIP drive
could be pretty cool option!