Doesn't seem all that long ago that AOL's IRC server was delinked from efnet. And IRC has been a much better place.
Also, what most don't understand, AOL isn't an ISP. AOL is an "on-line service". The difference? AOL is a proprietary network, that just happens to let users have some access to the internet.
The internet is like a world-wide library. AOL is me letting someone in my basement and going "if you need a book from the public library, I'll see what I can do"
So what's this have to do with usenet and irc? AOL is like the idiots that go to the public library, take out a book, and rip all the pages out of it before they return it. Banning AOL is like saying "don't screw with out stuff, you want to destory books, do it to yours at home. Now return your library card and have a nice day"
The "latest and greatest" software for all those new computers that was on the budget for last year is not in the budget for this year.
So how do alot of school compensate? Joe brings in that new Win98 CD that came with his computer to "upgrade" the computers. Pete brings in that copy of Office 97 that he got from his mom, that she "borrowed" from work. No one really sees it as illegal, expect the jokingly, "you didn't see me type in this key *wink* *wink*"
What about linux? HAHA The computer lab in my old HS was run by a 70 year old librarian, who kept shutting off the computers when they would dial-in to the ISP because "it was making funny noises and it was going to break it" Then someone told here that was the modem connecting. Someone has the patience enough to teach her linux?
One thing that ALOT of linux users don't know, including myself at one time, was that you can use True Type Fonts in X, and in any X app.
Get Xfstt(X Font Server for TTF's) from sunsite(yes, I still call it sunsite, die metalab ^_^ ). It installs flawlessly and I use all 172 of my true type fonts in X
EVERYTHING looks better, not just WP. Netscape, GIMP, etc. use them fine too.
Would be interesting to see if Loki or Id would ship a linux distro with their linux based games.
Would get more people into trying linux. People would see Quake 3 or RC2 for linux and think "woah, that's neat, too bad I don't have linux..wait what's this? comes with redHat 6.0? I think I'll try this"
Of course, you can replace RedHat 6.0 with any other distro, just that that's the one that would probably ship with a game.
Alot of people/companies buy alot of domain names that are related to them, or can be used against them. At $35 it's an inexpensive way to protect yourself. It would be a story if he DIDN'T reg the names.
Apple owns 100's of domain names to point to thier website, Nike owns around 500 I belive, and I'm sure there are alot of others who own that amount of domain names.
And I'll be damned, look where www.microsfot.org takes me too.....
Just goes to show that when there is a fix for something, or something new to add, it's out there as soon as possible. Not like Microsoft, who waits until they feel good and ready to release something, if at all. Remember the y2k fix for Win95 they held? That won't happen with linux.
And like upgrading a kernel is all that big of a deal? Grab the source patch, recompile, and reboot. Compile the option to use different module versions, and you don't even have to re-compile those. How easy is that?
When I write a paper, I don't use word processor codes, so why when I want to make a website would I use HTML?
This is just another thing that holds linux back. It's people who think they are better then everyone else because they use vi for HTML.
WYSIWYG Editors, whichever one that may be, is what web design should be. I'd rather be worrying about things like site layout and so forth. I don't need to worry or care about the hex value for sky blue or candyapple red.
If there was an open standard of all current Win32 APIs, then ANY OS could run all current windows software(with the execption of M$ products that use parts of the API they don't tell others).
Then the only cost to consumers would be the price of another OS. And software companies wouldn't have to pay anything, becuase their current apps would run out of the box on any OS that was "Win32 compliant". The only real cost would be to port the APIs to the other OSes. And Win32 for linux would, of course, be free. =)
What could happen is an OS could be taken to a standards board, and tested. Then if it passes can be stamped with a "Win32 compliant" label.
The only reason there are so many apps for Windows anyway is because of the monoply. It just isn't profitable to code for anything else. An open Win32 standard would level the playing field for everyone.
This big questions is also "Who's ads are they going to be?" and "Is it worth it for them?"
I don't think it's even been proven that banner ads generate money. I know from personal experience that I never clicked on one with the intent on buying something. I also can say probably a vast majority of others haven't either.
Also, I'd assmue the ads would be in the top right corner. Like the Netscape "N" but bigger. How would they even get there? Alot of computers that have people using apps like word processors aren't connected to the internet(at least while they are using the word processor). That would mean the ads would have to be permanently in the app. That's not going to be cheap for the advertisers, and most likely, not worth the money.
And one last thing. Ads have already been in some apps, like AOL Instant Messenger. But these kind of apps are more of the recreational type things that people use when they get home from school/work. When someone opens up Word Perfect, they have a reason to use it, and want to get that work done. They aren't going to be looking at ads and going "that looks interesting, I shoud get one of those". Or even click on it to go to their website. Like I said eariler, a good majority aren't going to even be connected to the internet.
This will be an idea that may be tried, people will see it will fail, and won't be tired again.
I've always installed Linux(Slack, RH and Debian) over FTP, but now I have others that want to try linux. What exactly is on a Red Hat 6.0 CD?
What directories from the FTP do I need to copy to a CD to have a fully working CD?
Since When is Linux a Gaming OS?
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What is linux soposed to be anyways?
I'm reading the comments in this article and most are like "more games for linux", "need something directx'ish for linux", etc.
Give it two days and I'll read another article on/. that will have a title like "Large Company Replaces NT Server with Linux". Then the preceding comments will say things like "linux is the NT killer" and "linux IS better for networking"
Give it two days after THAT, and I'll read an article on slashdot that says "Company Releases Desktop Linux Distro". And guess what the commetns will say? "Linux is ready for the desktop", and a good share of comments why it did/didn't come with gnome or KDE.
I think for linux to take a hold in ANY market, it has to be decided WHAT market to take hold in. Is linux soposed to be the next great server? Is it soposed to be the platform for the truly "next-generation" games? Or is it soposed to be the OS that most people WANT to have pre-installed so they can do taxes, have kids do homework, etc.? Linux can't and won't do it all.
So, could someone tell me what linux is soposed to end up being?
It's about time, should have been gone a while ago
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MST3K is WAY past its prime. It should have been canceled a year after Joel left.
Watching it now was like watching that aging sports star that didn't know when to retire. Everyone always liked to see them play, but there is a time to retire. MST3K's time has long since past.
When I was a junior in High School, I typed my junior term paper in WP 6.1. Decided that it would be better if I print it at school before I turned it in. Well, the only thing at school was word, didn't think much of it until I did a spell check.
What happened was I did my paper on OJ Simpson, and it decided during a spell check that it was wrong, and without any window or warning, changed EVERY Simpson, to Simson. I was in a hurry and didn't proofread the printout, and just bound it and turned it in. Needless to say, I failed the paper for mispelling the topic of my paper in all 8 pages and spend 2 months in summer school.
If that's not reason enough to hate Office and Word, I dont' know what is.
This beast of a super computer had 1k of RAM, and you had to code all your programs yourself. It basicly was a basic interpreter. Hell, it had basic commands mapped out to the keys to make programming easier.
Soposedly, there was a RAM add-on, and programs it could read from cassette tapes(it had ear and mic jacks), but I never have seen either.
I'm mean, it's nice and all that Microsoft is finally getting thier schlongs rubbed in the mud by everyone. But does it matter?
I mean, Windows in STILL going to be on 9 out of 10 desktops, it's STILL going to be a monopoly. So take out the bad press(and any press is good press) and it's a win-win situation for Microsoft.
I mean, what? Microsfot will ship an IE-less Windows 98/Win2k? That doesn't hurt them, Netscape is already dead(err..bought by AOL..same thing). I just don't see what could really happen that would make Microsoft a "loser" in this trial.
And for everyone that says they will open-source Windows, it's not going to happen.
Well, coding is like sports. As in there isn't much TOO know, but you just have to know how to do it.
Like, you can teach someone to catch a football, that's not hard. But you can't teach them to be a Jerry Rice. Same thing goes with coding. You can teach someone C, but that doesn't mean that they can go out there and code the next killer app either. What you REALLY need to know now, a college just can't teach you.
And as more and more people are learning, college isn't nessecary. It's like the fact that college athletes are learning that they don't need their full 4 years to go to the pros. This is just an idea that is boiling over to other areas like computing now.
That, and it also used to be that if you had a degree in computer science it ment something. Now they are a dime a dozen and employers are looking for people that actually know what they are doing unstead of a piece of paper saying they do. And for the most part, these are people without degrees.
Ever notice that it's Microsoft that is alwasy doing the buying and selling? I mean, none of the headlines say "AT&T buys MSN" it's "Microsoft sells MSN to AT&T" And, AT&T is only getting coustomers, most of which will probably jump ship when the deal takes place(remember CiS being bought by AOL?) while M$ is getting another media giant to puch M$ standards. That's a good deal who's only price was a service that wasn't profitable anyways.
Why is it that everytime something bad happens on AOL(child porn, stalking, etc.) it's refered to as "the internet"? I mean, how many stories have you read about children being lured out of their homes by 40+ year old men that blantenly happened on AOL and not one mention of AOL in the actually story, and then an editorial about how evil "the internet" is? But when it's something good(the "You've Got Mail" movie, etc.) AOL's name is all over it?
And Clinton...well....that's enough said right there.
I mean, I'm not sure if this is still true, but is Sony still taking a loss on every PSX sold? I mean if not, at any rate they don't make a profit. It could be somewhat logical to assume that if Sony coded thier OWN emulator, for Mac of PC, they could pull in more of a profit on it then an actual PSX unit. Sony makes is money from games, not the system. In my opinion, they are doing Sony a FAVOR by releasing this. This is a new market to sell games to(their $$ maker) without having to do anything.
Most that will buy this will buy it so they can use it on a laptop, possible internet play. Probably a load of other options most emulators have, such as real-time saving and loading, and outputing of music to a sound file will be included as well.
So Sony should just sit back, and be thankful they have a new market. Only thing they are probably steamed about is that they didn't do it first.
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Doesn't seem all that long ago that AOL's IRC server was delinked from efnet. And IRC has been a much better place.
Also, what most don't understand, AOL isn't an ISP. AOL is an "on-line service". The difference? AOL is a proprietary network, that just happens to let users have some access to the internet.
The internet is like a world-wide library. AOL is me letting someone in my basement and going "if you need a book from the public library, I'll see what I can do"
So what's this have to do with usenet and irc? AOL is like the idiots that go to the public library, take out a book, and rip all the pages out of it before they return it. Banning AOL is like saying "don't screw with out stuff, you want to destory books, do it to yours at home. Now return your library card and have a nice day"
The "latest and greatest" software for all those new computers that was on the budget for last year is not in the budget for this year.
So how do alot of school compensate? Joe brings in that new Win98 CD that came with his computer to "upgrade" the computers. Pete brings in that copy of Office 97 that he got from his mom, that she "borrowed" from work. No one really sees it as illegal, expect the jokingly, "you didn't see me type in this key *wink* *wink*"
What about linux? HAHA The computer lab in my old HS was run by a 70 year old librarian, who kept shutting off the computers when they would dial-in to the ISP because "it was making funny noises and it was going to break it" Then someone told here that was the modem connecting. Someone has the patience enough to teach her linux?
One thing that ALOT of linux users don't know, including myself at one time, was that you can use True Type Fonts in X, and in any X app.
Get Xfstt(X Font Server for TTF's) from sunsite(yes, I still call it sunsite, die metalab ^_^ ). It installs flawlessly and I use all 172 of my true type fonts in X
EVERYTHING looks better, not just WP. Netscape, GIMP, etc. use them fine too.
Would be interesting to see if Loki or Id would ship a linux distro with their linux based games.
Would get more people into trying linux. People would see Quake 3 or RC2 for linux and think "woah, that's neat, too bad I don't have linux..wait what's this? comes with redHat 6.0? I think I'll try this"
Of course, you can replace RedHat 6.0 with any other distro, just that that's the one that would probably ship with a game.
Alot of people/companies buy alot of domain names that are related to them, or can be used against them. At $35 it's an inexpensive way to protect yourself. It would be a story if he DIDN'T reg the names.
Apple owns 100's of domain names to point to thier website, Nike owns around 500 I belive, and I'm sure there are alot of others who own that amount of domain names.
And I'll be damned, look where www.microsfot.org takes me too.....
Just goes to show that when there is a fix for something, or something new to add, it's out there as soon as possible. Not like Microsoft, who waits until they feel good and ready to release something, if at all. Remember the y2k fix for Win95 they held? That won't happen with linux.
And like upgrading a kernel is all that big of a deal? Grab the source patch, recompile, and reboot. Compile the option to use different module versions, and you don't even have to re-compile those. How easy is that?
When I write a paper, I don't use word processor codes, so why when I want to make a website would I use HTML?
This is just another thing that holds linux back. It's people who think they are better then everyone else because they use vi for HTML.
WYSIWYG Editors, whichever one that may be, is what web design should be. I'd rather be worrying about things like site layout and so forth. I don't need to worry or care about the hex value for sky blue or candyapple red.
If there was an open standard of all current Win32 APIs, then ANY OS could run all current windows software(with the execption of M$ products that use parts of the API they don't tell others).
Then the only cost to consumers would be the price of another OS. And software companies wouldn't have to pay anything, becuase their current apps would run out of the box on any OS that was "Win32 compliant". The only real cost would be to port the APIs to the other OSes. And Win32 for linux would, of course, be free. =)
What could happen is an OS could be taken to a standards board, and tested. Then if it passes can be stamped with a "Win32 compliant" label.
The only reason there are so many apps for Windows anyway is because of the monoply. It just isn't profitable to code for anything else. An open Win32 standard would level the playing field for everyone.
This big questions is also "Who's ads are they going to be?" and "Is it worth it for them?"
I don't think it's even been proven that banner ads generate money. I know from personal experience that I never clicked on one with the intent on buying something. I also can say probably a vast majority of others haven't either.
Also, I'd assmue the ads would be in the top right corner. Like the Netscape "N" but bigger. How would they even get there? Alot of computers that have people using apps like word processors aren't connected to the internet(at least while they are using the word processor). That would mean the ads would have to be permanently in the app. That's not going to be cheap for the advertisers, and most likely, not worth the money.
And one last thing. Ads have already been in some apps, like AOL Instant Messenger. But these kind of apps are more of the recreational type things that people use when they get home from school/work. When someone opens up Word Perfect, they have a reason to use it, and want to get that work done. They aren't going to be looking at ads and going "that looks interesting, I shoud get one of those". Or even click on it to go to their website. Like I said eariler, a good majority aren't going to even be connected to the internet.
This will be an idea that may be tried, people will see it will fail, and won't be tired again.
I've always installed Linux(Slack, RH and Debian) over FTP, but now I have others that want to try linux. What exactly is on a Red Hat 6.0 CD?
What directories from the FTP do I need to copy to a CD to have a fully working CD?
What is linux soposed to be anyways?
/. that will have a title like "Large Company Replaces NT Server with Linux". Then the preceding comments will say things like "linux is the NT killer" and "linux IS better for networking"
I'm reading the comments in this article and most are like "more games for linux", "need something directx'ish for linux", etc.
Give it two days and I'll read another article on
Give it two days after THAT, and I'll read an article on slashdot that says "Company Releases Desktop Linux Distro". And guess what the commetns will say? "Linux is ready for the desktop", and a good share of comments why it did/didn't come with gnome or KDE.
I think for linux to take a hold in ANY market, it has to be decided WHAT market to take hold in. Is linux soposed to be the next great server? Is it soposed to be the platform for the truly "next-generation" games? Or is it soposed to be the OS that most people WANT to have pre-installed so they can do taxes, have kids do homework, etc.? Linux can't and won't do it all.
So, could someone tell me what linux is soposed to end up being?
MST3K is WAY past its prime. It should have been canceled a year after Joel left.
Watching it now was like watching that aging sports star that didn't know when to retire. Everyone always liked to see them play, but there is a time to retire. MST3K's time has long since past.
When I was a junior in High School, I typed my junior term paper in WP 6.1. Decided that it would be better if I print it at school before I turned it in. Well, the only thing at school was word, didn't think much of it until I did a spell check.
What happened was I did my paper on OJ Simpson, and it decided during a spell check that it was wrong, and without any window or warning, changed EVERY Simpson, to Simson. I was in a hurry and didn't proofread the printout, and just bound it and turned it in. Needless to say, I failed the paper for mispelling the topic of my paper in all 8 pages and spend 2 months in summer school.
If that's not reason enough to hate Office and Word, I dont' know what is.
Am I totally wrong to assume that this is based on the same idea as those magic eye pictures?
My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000.
This beast of a super computer had 1k of RAM, and you had to code all your programs yourself. It basicly was a basic interpreter. Hell, it had basic commands mapped out to the keys to make programming easier.
Soposedly, there was a RAM add-on, and programs it could read from cassette tapes(it had ear and mic jacks), but I never have seen either.
I'm mean, it's nice and all that Microsoft is finally getting thier schlongs rubbed in the mud by everyone. But does it matter?
I mean, Windows in STILL going to be on 9 out of 10 desktops, it's STILL going to be a monopoly. So take out the bad press(and any press is good press) and it's a win-win situation for Microsoft.
I mean, what? Microsfot will ship an IE-less Windows 98/Win2k? That doesn't hurt them, Netscape is already dead(err..bought by AOL..same thing). I just don't see what could really happen that would make Microsoft a "loser" in this trial.
And for everyone that says they will open-source Windows, it's not going to happen.
Well, coding is like sports. As in there isn't much TOO know, but you just have to know how to do it.
Like, you can teach someone to catch a football, that's not hard. But you can't teach them to be a Jerry Rice. Same thing goes with coding. You can teach someone C, but that doesn't mean that they can go out there and code the next killer app either. What you REALLY need to know now, a college just can't teach you.
And as more and more people are learning, college isn't nessecary. It's like the fact that college athletes are learning that they don't need their full 4 years to go to the pros. This is just an idea that is boiling over to other areas like computing now.
That, and it also used to be that if you had a degree in computer science it ment something. Now they are a dime a dozen and employers are looking for people that actually know what they are doing unstead of a piece of paper saying they do. And for the most part, these are people without degrees.
Ever notice that it's Microsoft that is alwasy doing the buying and selling? I mean, none of the headlines say "AT&T buys MSN" it's "Microsoft sells MSN to AT&T" And, AT&T is only getting coustomers, most of which will probably jump ship when the deal takes place(remember CiS being bought by AOL?) while M$ is getting another media giant to puch M$ standards. That's a good deal who's only price was a service that wasn't profitable anyways.
Why is it that everytime something bad happens on AOL(child porn, stalking, etc.) it's refered to as "the internet"? I mean, how many stories have you read about children being lured out of their homes by 40+ year old men that blantenly happened on AOL and not one mention of AOL in the actually story, and then an editorial about how evil "the internet" is? But when it's something good(the "You've Got Mail" movie, etc.) AOL's name is all over it?
And Clinton...well....that's enough said right there.
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What's up with MacOS X server for x86?
I mean, I'm not sure if this is still true, but is Sony still taking a loss on every PSX sold? I mean if not, at any rate they don't make a profit. It could be somewhat logical to assume that if Sony coded thier OWN emulator, for Mac of PC, they could pull in more of a profit on it then an actual PSX unit. Sony makes is money from games, not the system. In my opinion, they are doing Sony a FAVOR by releasing this. This is a new market to sell games to(their $$ maker) without having to do anything.
Most that will buy this will buy it so they can use it on a laptop, possible internet play. Probably a load of other options most emulators have, such as real-time saving and loading, and outputing of music to a sound file will be included as well.
So Sony should just sit back, and be thankful they have a new market. Only thing they are probably steamed about is that they didn't do it first.