You can't really say "the Catholics" in this case, at least as separate from the rest of Christianity. The Councils which canonized the Bible (except for leaving the status of the Old Testament Apocrypha / Deuterocanonicals up in the air) were held c. 400 AD, well before the Great Schism and over a millennium before the Reformation. The Church which held said councils was the only Christianity there was at the time; that is why all Christian religions share the same Bible, more or less.
When National Semiconductor announced that they were selling the Cyrix line to VIA, they also said that they were looking to sell a good-sized piece of their interest in their South Portland facility. I haven't heard anything more on that part of it, so maybe it's still in play.
BTW, as far as Transmeta's PR budget goes: it's Linus' salary. They get enough coverage out of the fact that they employ him (and give kernel.org the server space), that they can come out with an enormous IPO even if all Linus does is answer his Email all day. (NB: I'm not trying to imply that that's what he actually does... I'm sure he would not be comfortable in an environment where he was wanted only for his celebrity PR value.)
www.dotslash.org is a CNAME back to/. However, WHOIS says the domain belongs to a TEK Interactive Group of Fort Wayne, Indiana. "dotslash.org", without the www, points to another server. TEK Interactive appears to be a web design / hosting / ISP outfit.
> I don't understand windows networking very well, i can set it up and what not but I have one question. What about linux > boxs connect via samba. will this new licensing scheme effect them?
It depends on what the clients are connecting to. The CAL (Client Access License) is a license to connect to a particular level of MS Server. If it is a Linux server running Samba, then no MS CAL is required for that box, regardless of the OS on the client (I'm assuming Samba itself has no client-access restrictions; I've never looked at its licensing). If it is a Linux (or *BSD, or Mac, or BeOS, or anything) workstation connecting via SMB to an actual NT Server, then a CAL is required. This is the case today as well.
I still don't know whether the new licensing includes non-NT Authentication or non-IIS servers; if I am using Netscape Enterprise Server, authenticating via NS Directory Server (without using the NT-bind feature), will I need the extra CALs?
The multitasking abilities of the Amiga were ahead of their time, certainly, but other OS's can do that today. What I see as the lasting advantage of the Amiga is the multimedia capability: multiple simultaneous screen resolutions, etc. For that to work, you need the custom Amiga chipset (and rumor -- and this is only rumor -- has it that at least one of the schematics was lost during the Commodore - Escom - Gateway transition). Without the chips, the OS is largely been-there-done-that if you want to port it to new hardware.
Does anyone have any knowledgeable opinion as to whether incorporating the Amiga chipset into a PC video card is technologicaly feasible (assuming the chips can be reproduced)?
RoadRunner (which I am currently on) is co-owned by MediaOne and Time-Warner (I'm not sure what the percentages are). I have to say that I have had good luck with the Southern Maine RR connection... speeds have been fine, and the people in the office have been very responsive (they even added a roadrunner.alt-os newsgroup when I asked for it, and it's probably the most popular of the rr groups on their server).
They _do_ plan to have NSI split the registry business off of the registrar business, with the intent that NSI will retain the registrar portion. The agreement also requires NSI to turn the InterNIC website and the three internic.nnn domains over to the Dept. of Commerce.
I don't understand why IBM wouldn't be willing to license the OS to Stardock though. Unless it's because they either get enough profit from it supporting the remaining OS/2 user base, or don't want to have to keep the user base and license the code to a third party, or don't want to lose the user base in the licensing agreement.
They're too busy providing NT support services to want to compete with Microsoft.
The consumer launch of Warp 3 (remmber the Italian nuns?) was a support nightmare, as their help desk was flooded with "How do I get DOOM to run with sound?" calls (OS/2 controls hardware access, like any good OS. DOOM, of course, used its own, non-compatible DOS sound drivers.)
PC Company gets a much better preload discount on Windows if they don't produce or preload a competing OS.
IBM still supports OS/2 for existing, large customers in "vertical industries" like banking and insurance. This translates to things like JVM updates, Y2K and Euro fixes, and miscellaneous fixpacks. Significant updates for things a home user might want, like DIVE, USB (currently only on Intel and I believe VIA chipsets), and multimedia in general are probably not forthcoming.
(Not In This Lifetime). The impression I have gotten is that IBM does not have full rights to release the source. Much of it is still co-copyrighted with Microsoft from the early days, and I would guess that some of it was purchased from third parties complete with a(n) NDA.
a couple of years ago, at the height of Netscape's "power", about marca. It was basically a hatchet job, with a lot of quotes from people claiming to have been at NCSA. The consensus was that he was a BS artist who took credit for the work of others and did very little useful coding himself. Almost all (if not all) the quotes were anonymous, FWIW.
A lot of people on/. thought this way when the survey results were released, but it's looking at things backwards. The respondents were not, for the most part, existing Linux developers looking to use Delphi... they were existing Borland-on-Windows developers looking to develop for Linux! That explains the toolkit confusion, etc.
I wonder... there was a version of OS/2 Warp for the Power PC that barely came out (it shipped after IBM had given up on desktop Powerstations); will that run on a machine with one of these boards?
I never looked for "console mode" in it (I don't even have it installed currently), but Delphi 4 includes a full copy of Delphi 1, which is the original Win16 version, on the CD. Does anyone know if that supports DOS?
They made 75 total sales in the last quarter, including new purchases and upgrades. The wording implies (to me, at least) that that does not reflect the number of CPU's or the variety of OS's; it's still one sale if it's going to run on a 4-way Xeon box, even though the price tag was 4 times as much. Since >2-way SMP performance is still a Linux weak spot, I can see that demand for NAS on Linux might be relatively low.
What if that line read: "If the only gateway we supported was Red Hat, it would be cheap, said chief technology officer Tim Bishop. "It would make configuration testing much easier and it would be easier to support."??? (Italicized part is edited)
NS' bean counters didn't expect there to be as much competition in the sub-$1k market as there turned out to be, so they bailed. The local news story is here. That link will change tomorrow (Friday EST), but it includes a picture of the South Portland plant.
For chip historians (chip wonks?), the original Fairchild plant is to the right of the building as seen in the photo, just outside the frame. It is currently home to the new Fairchild spin-off.
I don't know why some are missing (perhaps it's because they currently only exist in their original medium - typewritten hardcopy), but you can find RFC 1 at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1.txt.
Once, I went to CC to buy an X2 modem (Sportster internal, non-Winmodem), before V.90 was standardized. I asked the salesman if it was compatible with OS/2. He immediately said, "No, you need this one over here for OS/2", and promptly walked to the other end of the department and grabbed from the shelf... a Macintosh modem.
I said that that was not what I was looking for and he answered that "that was the only OS2 he had heard of". The x2 I originally had works fine, BTW.
I didn't mean he wouldn't leave Netscape, I meant he didn't say he wouldn't stop working on Mozilla as a non-employee hacker. Then, alas, I went back and reread, and found this:
The Mozilla project has become too depressing, and too painful, for me to continue working on. I wanted Mozilla to become something that it has not, and I am tired of fighting and waiting to make it so. I have felt very ineffectual, and that's just not a good feeling.
I misread that while I was still on only my second cup of coffee. Sorry. Even sorrier for Moz'.
If the comment you were dropping was one with an ID attached (ie, non-AC), then I would suggest leaving it as is. As Rob described the point system, 0 and 1 are _both_ neutral territory; leaving Score: 1 comments as they are enables a person to filter most anonymous comments by setting the threshold to 1.
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You can't really say "the Catholics" in this case, at least as separate from the rest of Christianity. The Councils which canonized the Bible (except for leaving the status of the Old Testament Apocrypha / Deuterocanonicals up in the air) were held c. 400 AD, well before the Great Schism and over a millennium before the Reformation. The Church which held said councils was the only Christianity there was at the time; that is why all Christian religions share the same Bible, more or less.
When National Semiconductor announced that they were selling the Cyrix line to VIA, they also said that they were looking to sell a good-sized piece of their interest in their South Portland facility. I haven't heard anything more on that part of it, so maybe it's still in play.
BTW, as far as Transmeta's PR budget goes: it's Linus' salary. They get enough coverage out of the fact that they employ him (and give kernel.org the server space), that they can come out with an enormous IPO even if all Linus does is answer his Email all day. (NB: I'm not trying to imply that that's what he actually does... I'm sure he would not be comfortable in an environment where he was wanted only for his celebrity PR value.)
www.dotslash.org is a CNAME back to /. However, WHOIS says the domain belongs to a TEK Interactive Group of Fort Wayne, Indiana. "dotslash.org", without the www, points to another server. TEK Interactive appears to be a web design / hosting / ISP outfit.
> I don't understand windows networking very well, i can set it up and what not but I have one question. What about linux
> boxs connect via samba. will this new licensing scheme effect them?
It depends on what the clients are connecting to. The CAL (Client Access License) is a license to connect to a particular level of MS Server. If it is a Linux server running Samba, then no MS CAL is required for that box, regardless of the OS on the client (I'm assuming Samba itself has no client-access restrictions; I've never looked at its licensing). If it is a Linux (or *BSD, or Mac, or BeOS, or anything) workstation connecting via SMB to an actual NT Server, then a CAL is required. This is the case today as well.
I still don't know whether the new licensing includes non-NT Authentication or non-IIS servers; if I am using Netscape Enterprise Server, authenticating via NS Directory Server (without using the NT-bind feature), will I need the extra CALs?
The multitasking abilities of the Amiga were ahead of their time, certainly, but other OS's can do that today. What I see as the lasting advantage of the Amiga is the multimedia capability: multiple simultaneous screen resolutions, etc. For that to work, you need the custom Amiga chipset (and rumor -- and this is only rumor -- has it that at least one of the schematics was lost during the Commodore - Escom - Gateway transition). Without the chips, the OS is largely been-there-done-that if you want to port it to new hardware.
Does anyone have any knowledgeable opinion as to whether incorporating the Amiga chipset into a PC video card is technologicaly feasible (assuming the chips can be reproduced)?
in which perhaps the most salient point was made by an individual styling himself The Glorious MEEPT, who said simply, "MEEPT!"
RoadRunner (which I am currently on) is co-owned by MediaOne and Time-Warner (I'm not sure what the percentages are). I have to say that I have had good luck with the Southern Maine RR connection... speeds have been fine, and the people in the office have been very responsive (they even added a roadrunner.alt-os newsgroup when I asked for it, and it's probably the most popular of the rr groups on their server).
They _do_ plan to have NSI split the registry business off of the registrar business, with the intent that NSI will retain the registrar portion. The agreement also requires NSI to turn the InterNIC website and the three internic.nnn domains over to the Dept. of Commerce.
- They're too busy providing NT support services to want to compete with Microsoft.
- The consumer launch of Warp 3 (remmber the Italian nuns?) was a support nightmare, as their help desk was flooded with "How do I get DOOM to run with sound?" calls (OS/2 controls hardware access, like any good OS. DOOM, of course, used its own, non-compatible DOS sound drivers.)
- PC Company gets a much better preload discount on Windows if they don't produce or preload a competing OS.
IBM still supports OS/2 for existing, large customers in "vertical industries" like banking and insurance. This translates to things like JVM updates, Y2K and Euro fixes, and miscellaneous fixpacks. Significant updates for things a home user might want, like DIVE, USB (currently only on Intel and I believe VIA chipsets), and multimedia in general are probably not forthcoming.(Not In This Lifetime). The impression I have gotten is that IBM does not have full rights to release the source. Much of it is still co-copyrighted with Microsoft from the early days, and I would guess that some of it was purchased from third parties complete with a(n) NDA.
*gulp*
Thanks for all your hard work, Nitrozac. It's a great panel.
- Mark
a couple of years ago, at the height of Netscape's "power", about marca. It was basically a hatchet job, with a lot of quotes from people claiming to have been at NCSA. The consensus was that he was a BS artist who took credit for the work of others and did very little useful coding himself. Almost all (if not all) the quotes were anonymous, FWIW.
A lot of people on /. thought this way when the survey results were released, but it's looking at things backwards. The respondents were not, for the most part, existing Linux developers looking to use Delphi... they were existing Borland-on-Windows developers looking to develop for Linux! That explains the toolkit confusion, etc.
I wonder... there was a version of OS/2 Warp for the Power PC that barely came out (it shipped after IBM had given up on desktop Powerstations); will that run on a machine with one of these boards?
I never looked for "console mode" in it (I don't even have it installed currently), but Delphi 4 includes a full copy of Delphi 1, which is the original Win16 version, on the CD. Does anyone know if that supports DOS?
They made 75 total sales in the last quarter, including new purchases and upgrades. The wording implies (to me, at least) that that does not reflect the number of CPU's or the variety of OS's; it's still one sale if it's going to run on a 4-way Xeon box, even though the price tag was 4 times as much. Since >2-way SMP performance is still a Linux weak spot, I can see that demand for NAS on Linux might be relatively low.
What if that line read:
"If the only gateway we supported was Red Hat, it would be cheap, said chief technology officer Tim Bishop. "It would make configuration testing much easier and it would be easier to support."??? (Italicized part is edited)
Comments, anyone?
++
I agree with Lemmy's post, but noticed that he included THX-1138... one of George Lucas' earliest films.
NS' bean counters didn't expect there to be as much competition in the sub-$1k market as there turned out to be, so they bailed. The local news story is here. That link will change tomorrow (Friday EST), but it includes a picture of the South Portland plant.
For chip historians (chip wonks?), the original Fairchild plant is to the right of the building as seen in the photo, just outside the frame. It is currently home to the new Fairchild spin-off.
I don't know why some are missing (perhaps it's because they currently only exist in their original medium - typewritten hardcopy), but you can find RFC 1 at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1.txt.
Once, I went to CC to buy an X2 modem (Sportster internal, non-Winmodem), before V.90 was standardized. I asked the salesman if it was compatible with OS/2. He immediately said, "No, you need this one over here for OS/2", and promptly walked to the other end of the department and grabbed from the shelf...
a Macintosh modem.
I said that that was not what I was looking for and he answered that "that was the only OS2 he had heard of". The x2 I originally had works fine, BTW.
He never said he wouldn't continue to work on Mozilla. It is, after all, an Open Source project badly in need of non-Netscape contributors!
If the comment you were dropping was one with an ID attached (ie, non-AC), then I would suggest leaving it as is. As Rob described the point system, 0 and 1 are _both_ neutral territory; leaving Score: 1 comments as they are enables a person to filter most anonymous comments by setting the threshold to 1.
NB: IANAM (I Am Not A Moderator).