If DEC or whatever company was supporting a PDP-10 at your site as a service back they might decide to relegate it to DNS duty, as you suggest. It would be more profitable,however, for that service company to take back the PDP-10, which is still their property, and recycle it. This would especially be the case if there was an electricity use limit built into the service contract. This is the basic idea of the service model. I like it because it creates the right incentives in the service company, the organization, and the IT staff. Use a tool that is powerful and efficient enough to do the job, but not more powerful, and not less efficient.
It's incredibly wasteful for both companies like 3Com and their customers to junk old equipment instead of upgrading and maintaining old equipment. It's better at least to relegate old equipment to auxiliary duty. So why buy a piece of hardware if you could buy a service?
A company like 3Com could agree to provide a certain number of ethernet switch ports in working order at your site for a monthly fee. They can update and upgrade the product at their leisure. If their equipment stops working for a previously agreed time period (maybe if it has less than 99.99% uptime per month), then you pay nothing that month. Once they replace your equipment, they take the old equipment and either recycle it or reuse it. This would be a more efficient system because every party has a strong incentive to avoid waste.
With this system, there would be no need to open the specs or source code of obsolete hardware, because companies would be offering free firmware and driver upgrades for much longer periods of time.
Thus, we must put XML in the kernel. That would solve the problem. And tech-savvy CTO's know it. If Linux is to compete with other operating systems, it must put XML in the kernel. Security is a distraction. It's all XML these days.
IMHO, there are two parts to any user interface. One, the user. Two, the interface. Far too often do software developers focus on the interface at the expense of the user.
To illustrate, the interface is an objective thing that can be correctly or incorrectly interpreted and manipulated. The user, on the other hand, subjectively appreciates the things that surround him/her, including the interface. If the user can't understand the objective interface, then no matter how beautiful or logical the design is, the interface is still of less value to the user.
Design the interace for the user. You simply cannot design the user for the interface.
It's about time this was posted. Slashdot is always covering the latest IPO. Now, with VA/Andover (Slashdot's parent company) falling from a high of about $350/share to $28/share, and other such stocks tumbling as well, it looks like the Linux/Internet/high tech bubble has burst. There's no need to act like a sore loser. That's the nature of capitalism. Risk.
Generally, optimizing code for a later generation x86 processor will not result in much of a speed up. This is true for kernels. It is not true for floating point mathematics applications, however.
OTOH, maybe there is a problem. Have you submitted a report to the developers?
I don't get the supposed serious security issue with khttpd. I mean, it serves files. Nothing else. When a khttpd-enabled system gets an http request, either khttpd sends a file (html, xhtml, jpeg, whatever) or khttpd hands off to Apache or XYZ web server.
One possible security issue would be some kind of DoS attack. Maybe by saturating the machine with requests, the kernel would freeze up or something. As with any new thing, you should test it first.
"Bring a pint of Cardassian Ale to my quarters immediately! I will see you in the ready room at Oh-eight-hundred where we will discuss IPO'ing this hunk of junk."
Mediation has failed. This will likely precede the court answering the question: has Microsoft violated the Sherman Antitrust Act? The question hinges on whether the judge finds that Microsoft has engaged in monopolistic business practices. This will not include the remedy. If Microsoft has violated the Act, then the court will hold hearings later on to determine whether they should break Microsoft up or do something else.
Go ahead, AOL, don't report security holes openly. Just cover them up and keep them a "secret." No one will EVER find out about them because you are AOL. Please excuse our importunate blandishments. We'll stop. Then we'll take your code and build a new browser; maybe calling it Ozilla (for "Open") or something. You just don't get it. Either follow the new paradigm or confine yourselves to the dustbin of history.
Congratulations to Patrick Volkerding and everyone connected with Slackware. That's awesome. It's good to hear about good things happening to someone from the Fargo-Moorhead area. That's because I'm from that area myself. I hope the sure-to-be IPO rakes it in. Cha-ching!
Both Intel and AMD had previously announced the 1 Ghz Pentium and Athlon for mid-2000. Did they speed up the assembly line? I think not. More likely these announcements are for small quantities. We won't see any real supply of these chips until July at the earliest, IMHO.
I find it ironic when people say shooting lawyers will help. It is the law that keeps us one step ahead of pure barbarism, and the law cannot function without its servants. Now, a case could be better made, I think, to call for more lawyers for regular folks, and less lawyers for transnational corporations. The latter are primarily engaged in the ritual practice of involuntary paper burial, anyway, to no great benefit for society.
Interesting, but probably wrong. According to space.com, NASA anticipates the crash occurring in 2002. It seems unlikely that they made a mistake that puts it in an orbit that meets up with Jupiter in 2 years. But hey, I could be wrong.
This is fake news./. has a time honored tradition of not posting fake news on April Fool's Day, so why isn't the policy extended to posting any fake news? In fact the article says nothing about piracy. The double negatives were funny, but not informative.
algore2000.com. The "search" feature is further down the page.
Search 1: internet 144 matches
Search 2: internet policy 326 matches
Search 3: "internet policy" 0 matches
The default behavior of their search engine is to use the boolean operator "or" unless there are quotation marks or the "exact phrase" button is clicked on.
The best argument against the report is that the NSA would never have relied on Billy Gates, a 20 year old kid, to do their dirty work for them. It's just too risky for the NSA's supposed plans, considering that Gates might have turned against them. Microsoft didn't hire many gray haired veterans until later down the road.
To continue, why would the NSA need Microsoft to force IBM to comply with its wishes? IBM has always been in bed with all levels of the government.
A good argument for the rumor is that the US intelligence community's modus operandi is to start up "front" companies to serve as cover for whatever black op they are about to take on. Could Microsoft have started as such a "front" company?
Who knows? It's just idle speculation.
A denial by the big M wouldn't be convincing. The only way to find out would be a massive lawsuit against Microsoft that would force it to open up its vaults of internal documents & memoranda to public scrutiny. The tobacco companies recently faced such an onslaught. Oh, wait. That lawsuit is "United States v. Microsoft." The private antitrust suits, like that of Caldera, are probably going to be settled out of court. No production of documents, I guess.
We'll never know unless there is a political movement in the US that demands change in the intelligence community.
Oh my god! Just as I was about to post this, I lost my net connection! LOL. ROTF.
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If DEC or whatever company was supporting a PDP-10 at your site as a service back they might decide to relegate it to DNS duty, as you suggest. It would be more profitable,however, for that service company to take back the PDP-10, which is still their property, and recycle it. This would especially be the case if there was an electricity use limit built into the service contract. This is the basic idea of the service model. I like it because it creates the right incentives in the service company, the organization, and the IT staff. Use a tool that is powerful and efficient enough to do the job, but not more powerful, and not less efficient.
So since when has Slashdot done hardware reviews? It was a good review, anyway, of an interesting piece of equipment.
A company like 3Com could agree to provide a certain number of ethernet switch ports in working order at your site for a monthly fee. They can update and upgrade the product at their leisure. If their equipment stops working for a previously agreed time period (maybe if it has less than 99.99% uptime per month), then you pay nothing that month. Once they replace your equipment, they take the old equipment and either recycle it or reuse it. This would be a more efficient system because every party has a strong incentive to avoid waste.
With this system, there would be no need to open the specs or source code of obsolete hardware, because companies would be offering free firmware and driver upgrades for much longer periods of time.
Thus, we must put XML in the kernel. That would solve the problem. And tech-savvy CTO's know it. If Linux is to compete with other operating systems, it must put XML in the kernel. Security is a distraction. It's all XML these days.
It's right over here.
Who would have thought that AMD would have been inspired by that old 50's hit?
To illustrate, the interface is an objective thing that can be correctly or incorrectly interpreted and manipulated. The user, on the other hand, subjectively appreciates the things that surround him/her, including the interface. If the user can't understand the objective interface, then no matter how beautiful or logical the design is, the interface is still of less value to the user.
Design the interace for the user. You simply cannot design the user for the interface.
So THAT explains Ninety-Eight Degrees.
Tired of Slashdot? Try Kuro5hin.
Of the evils of Microsoft? Or of those of Ralph Reed?
OTOH, maybe there is a problem. Have you submitted a report to the developers?
One possible security issue would be some kind of DoS attack. Maybe by saturating the machine with requests, the kernel would freeze up or something. As with any new thing, you should test it first.
"Bring a pint of Cardassian Ale to my quarters immediately! I will see you in the ready room at Oh-eight-hundred where we will discuss IPO'ing this hunk of junk."
Mediation has failed. This will likely precede the court answering the question: has Microsoft violated the Sherman Antitrust Act? The question hinges on whether the judge finds that Microsoft has engaged in monopolistic business practices. This will not include the remedy. If Microsoft has violated the Act, then the court will hold hearings later on to determine whether they should break Microsoft up or do something else.
Go ahead, AOL, don't report security holes openly. Just cover them up and keep them a "secret." No one will EVER find out about them because you are AOL. Please excuse our importunate blandishments. We'll stop. Then we'll take your code and build a new browser; maybe calling it Ozilla (for "Open") or something. You just don't get it. Either follow the new paradigm or confine yourselves to the dustbin of history.
Congratulations to Patrick Volkerding and everyone connected with Slackware. That's awesome. It's good to hear about good things happening to someone from the Fargo-Moorhead area. That's because I'm from that area myself. I hope the sure-to-be IPO rakes it in. Cha-ching!
For another take on this story, see the story on kuro5hin.com.
Note: I could be wrong.
I find it ironic when people say shooting lawyers will help. It is the law that keeps us one step ahead of pure barbarism, and the law cannot function without its servants. Now, a case could be better made, I think, to call for more lawyers for regular folks, and less lawyers for transnational corporations. The latter are primarily engaged in the ritual practice of involuntary paper burial, anyway, to no great benefit for society.
Interesting, but probably wrong. According to space.com, NASA anticipates the crash occurring in 2002. It seems unlikely that they made a mistake that puts it in an orbit that meets up with Jupiter in 2 years. But hey, I could be wrong.
You want to void your warranty and render tech support useless so you can save $40-100? How valuable is your data? Hopefully more than that.
Do NOT shoot that nuclear powered space craft into the gas giant Jupiter. It'll light that sucker up like the biggest firecracker you ever seen!!!
This is fake news. /. has a time honored tradition of not posting fake news on April Fool's Day, so why isn't the policy extended to posting any fake news? In fact the article says nothing about piracy. The double negatives were funny, but not informative.
Search 1: internet 144 matches
Search 2: internet policy 326 matches
Search 3: "internet policy" 0 matches
The default behavior of their search engine is to use the boolean operator "or" unless there are quotation marks or the "exact phrase" button is clicked on.
To continue, why would the NSA need Microsoft to force IBM to comply with its wishes? IBM has always been in bed with all levels of the government.
A good argument for the rumor is that the US intelligence community's modus operandi is to start up "front" companies to serve as cover for whatever black op they are about to take on. Could Microsoft have started as such a "front" company?
Who knows? It's just idle speculation.
A denial by the big M wouldn't be convincing. The only way to find out would be a massive lawsuit against Microsoft that would force it to open up its vaults of internal documents & memoranda to public scrutiny. The tobacco companies recently faced such an onslaught. Oh, wait. That lawsuit is "United States v. Microsoft." The private antitrust suits, like that of Caldera, are probably going to be settled out of court. No production of documents, I guess.
We'll never know unless there is a political movement in the US that demands change in the intelligence community.
Oh my god! Just as I was about to post this, I lost my net connection! LOL. ROTF.