I really don't see why epoeple keep complaining about what categories and authors keep getting posted. You can block them if you want. Don't like SCO/Caldera stories, block them!
Apple has its niche and hasn't shown signs of growing out of it a VERY long time.
Google on the other hand, is a direct threat to Microsoft's own search engine. The search results prove they can't match Google's ability to give useful results, and I don't think the gimmicks Microsoft has bandied (Image search using face recognition code, searching your local files) about will get people to leave Google.
Yes, Google. is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Apple. In the short term I'd say it's more of a threat than Linux, at least to Microsoft's dreams of owning the Internet.
That said, I doubt Microsoft really has that much to do with SCO's actions beyond investing in them. They funded a company that's going after Linux, and that's all they need to do.
SCO is all about headlines, and in order for suing a Linux using company to boost their stock price, it had to be someone with a lot of boxes (So the damages will be a nice big number), name recognition would preferably be someone who doesn't have a contract with one of the big Linux firms like IBM, Red Hat and Suse.
Google is the most logical choice by this criteria.
One of the best known names on the Internet.
Thousands of boxes.
May or may not have all those boxes through another firm that could come to their aid.
And they have the bonus of an approaching IPO, which in the minds of typical SCO lawyers should make Google terrified of bad press.
Google is the most logical choice for a Linux form that SCO can sue.
Lots of sys admins let all kinds of files through. Our network admin let through all those executables until the code Red Virus hit us, and hit us hard. Even then, it took a few months.
Then there's programs like Omniform. It's the software package one department uses to manage all their electronic forms from the state departments. Thousands of documents are involved, and management on down is married to Omniform.
Problem is, you need to be running as an admin on the local machine for the poorly coded slice of cruft to function.
Hell, our wireless network is still set to all the defaults, and our physical location (not in an office park) is given as the reason not to enable encryption!
Lots of places have "budget" IT departments, staffed with interns who never got decent training. The fact that Windows Server looks a Hell of a lot like the desktop versions has lead people to believe that anyone who can use Windows can set up a server and network. This fallacy has lead to a lot of people running networks who lack the necessary knowledge and skill to do it right.
PHB1: I never even hear of these guys? I mean, they account for more bytes than all our CBHs (Current Blond Ho's) combined! We gotta sign them.
Intern: Actually, Mandrake and Fedora aren't music groups.
PHB1: So they're individual musicians? How attached are they to their backup musicians?
Intern: No, no, they're Linux Distributions.
(Blank Stares from PHBs)
Intern: IT's software that's legal to download for free.
PHB2: Bull. File sharing is only for music. Don't be an idiot.
PHB1: Get the Hell out. You're fired!
(Intern Leaves)
PHB1: Have a smarter intern Internet us more info on these groups.
PHB2: While he's at it, make sire to find out who this "Microsoft" band is. Looks like they have a bunch of albums out. "Viso" "Office 97" "Office 2000 Professional"
PHB1: Forget them. Look at this list. Microsoft must be one of those pathetic "art" bands that just releases the same songs over and over with remixes. Look at thie r "Office" album. They've got Professional, Enterprice, Standard a whole bunch of other s**t comming out every few years. More trouble than we want. I'll bet they eve care about the "Quality" of their work.
PHB2: They could just be good at marketing their music.
That starts playing the video of Bill Gates and "Monkey Boy" Balmer getting it on. You really don't want to see that one. The main image on goatse.cx is a screen capture from the film.
Say, is that government contractor you mentioned hiring? It sounds like a better job than the one I've got now. I cound be one of the two people doing real work and get more money than I do now!
First, mirror the site, then set up an eDonkey server. It's a bit more mature and as the MST3K Digital Archive Project can attest, generally a bit more convient for keeping large archives online. Even the best Bittorrent clients out there still parse the entire file on each program load. Not a good thing when dealing with a few gigs of data.
I've always wanted to get together a group to record these great works under some kind of GPL or BSD like license, but never had the time^X^X^X^X energy to make it happen.
The text to speach software out there is OX for reading the news to the blind, but sounds pretty much the same as the old "Speak and Spell" from the 80's. It's a crime against the visually impared.
That said, you can get books on tape and CD from the library and audible.com offers audio books for download at a very reasonable price. (Especally if you get one of their subscription programs that comes with their portable audio device.)
Loading Mozilla loads a Web Browser and Mail client. This consumes time, memory and other resources.
Splitting the applications has many advantages:
Users who just want the web browser will be able to have a smaller download and faster load time.
It will be easier to maintain two separate programs that share a few components than it is to maintain one massive program that does several things.
The act of having two programs that share a few hunks of code (Such as the HTML rendering engine) will result in the shared code being in a state where it's easier to embed in other applications. This may not be intention, but it's a hard to avoid consequence.
People who just want the web browser have been complaining about having to "waste" time, resources and CPU cycles on a mail client they never use, but is still loaded in the background. (And even some of the biggest fans of the mail client admit the browser only users have a point.)
It's a chance to streamline and improve the code.
Both applications can be made faster as individual programs than as a single entity.
The biggest reason is that it gives users more choice.
There are other reasons as well, but the bottom line is there were a lot of reasons to make the change, and not many reasons to hold back.
Support for Intel's damn power saving "feature" where it throttles down the CPU on laptops. Even when I disable it in the BIOS, my laptop still runs at 400 mhz in Linux on AC power instead of the 700 I paid for!
And while we're at it...
Sentience
That's all I ask.
And the ability to pick stocks with the precision that worries the NASD.
Oh, and complete subservience to my will, so my machine will always obey me.
Wait, this is Linux, it already has that last feature.:)
Seriously though, I'd love to see a defrag utility come out for Linux. I know the file systems supposedly don't need it but PHBs will love it, and whoever is selling a nice GUI version of the thing will make a mint.
I want file by file transparent compression, so I can specify a file be sored in a compressed form and all Linux applications open and use it without knowing it's different from anything else.
Identical capabilities for encrypted files.
Indexing of documents, so I can search files that contain phrases with SQL style syntax.
Real time updates to the database that 'locate' uses.
FIX THE DAMN CUT AND PASTE IN LINUX!!!!!
All in all, none of this is really Kernel stuff, but this is what I want.
I now have a few members of sales using Mozilla's Firebird for a lot of things, as well as our content development staff.
One guy's IE install was corrupt, and since we're a web based company, this was a serious issue for him. I installed Firebird as a stop gap measure until IE was working again. Set up tabbed browsing, showed him how to block pop ups and went on my merry way. I had IE fixed later that day.
Thing is, he's still using Firebird as much as he can. He came down later that day, AFTER IE was fixed, and thanked me for setting him up with an alternative. He was amazed at how much faster it is.
The content management team loves it because by using Mozilla, Opera and IE they can be logged into three different accounts on the same site without the session data conflicting. This means they can edit content in the Instructor accounts and proof it in a student account.
And if course, Firebird is my main browser at work.
By the way, I found out form one of the developers, that the Boston Glove's online site is maintained using a custom Content Management System that requires Mozilla to operate. The superior options for development and customization make it very attractive to technology firms.
"OpenOffice implements the API with UNO (Universal Network Objects). Currently there are language bindings for Java and C++. You can implement your own language binding, and in fact we are actively looking for a volunteer to create a C language binding.
Additionally UNO allows control from scripting languages and scripting environments (for example debuggers). Currently StarBASIC (VBA syntax compatible) can call on the API and there is a prototype written for Python integration. "
If OpenOffice can di it, I'd wager StarOffice can too. The StarOffice SDK should have all the details.
Slashdot Mirror
Log into your /. account
Click on your username
Click on "Preferences"
Click on "homepage"
Under "Topics" click "Caldera"
Clicks "Save"
No more SCO links!
I really don't see why epoeple keep complaining about what categories and authors keep getting posted. You can block them if you want. Don't like SCO/Caldera stories, block them!
And this is with the FREE login to boot.
Cool!
Now that you can actually play games on this sucker, it might be worth owning...
Naaah.
The American dream is to become successful through hard work.
Litigation is the "fall back" plan for those who don't have the IQ or ability to work that makes other successful.
Income through Litigation isn't the American dream per se, but it is the corruption that occurs when the stupid get their hands on it.
Well, it is.
Apple has its niche and hasn't shown signs of growing out of it a VERY long time.
Google on the other hand, is a direct threat to Microsoft's own search engine. The search results prove they can't match Google's ability to give useful results, and I don't think the gimmicks Microsoft has bandied (Image search using face recognition code, searching your local files) about will get people to leave Google.
Yes, Google. is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Apple. In the short term I'd say it's more of a threat than Linux, at least to Microsoft's dreams of owning the Internet.
That said, I doubt Microsoft really has that much to do with SCO's actions beyond investing in them. They funded a company that's going after Linux, and that's all they need to do.
SCO is all about headlines, and in order for suing a Linux using company to boost their stock price, it had to be someone with a lot of boxes (So the damages will be a nice big number), name recognition would preferably be someone who doesn't have a contract with one of the big Linux firms like IBM, Red Hat and Suse.
Google is the most logical choice by this criteria.
One of the best known names on the Internet.
Thousands of boxes.
May or may not have all those boxes through another firm that could come to their aid.
And they have the bonus of an approaching IPO, which in the minds of typical SCO lawyers should make Google terrified of bad press.
Google is the most logical choice for a Linux form that SCO can sue.
decided that everyone should have Admin rights so they could install anything that they want "within reason."
Which translated, no doubt, into Kazaa, assorted IM programs and enough Spyware to cripple some machines and reduce avaiable network bandwidth by 70%.
Lots of sys admins let all kinds of files through. Our network admin let through all those executables until the code Red Virus hit us, and hit us hard. Even then, it took a few months.
Then there's programs like Omniform. It's the software package one department uses to manage all their electronic forms from the state departments. Thousands of documents are involved, and management on down is married to Omniform.
Problem is, you need to be running as an admin on the local machine for the poorly coded slice of cruft to function.
Hell, our wireless network is still set to all the defaults, and our physical location (not in an office park) is given as the reason not to enable encryption!
Lots of places have "budget" IT departments, staffed with interns who never got decent training. The fact that Windows Server looks a Hell of a lot like the desktop versions has lead people to believe that anyone who can use Windows can set up a server and network. This fallacy has lead to a lot of people running networks who lack the necessary knowledge and skill to do it right.
Execs are looking over the data.
PHB1: This Mandrake group is big
PHB2: Fedora too. Must be folk
PHB1: I never even hear of these guys? I mean, they account for more bytes than all our CBHs (Current Blond Ho's) combined! We gotta sign them.
Intern: Actually, Mandrake and Fedora aren't music groups.
PHB1: So they're individual musicians? How attached are they to their backup musicians?
Intern: No, no, they're Linux Distributions.
(Blank Stares from PHBs)
Intern: IT's software that's legal to download for free.
PHB2: Bull. File sharing is only for music. Don't be an idiot.
PHB1: Get the Hell out. You're fired!
(Intern Leaves)
PHB1: Have a smarter intern Internet us more info on these groups.
PHB2: While he's at it, make sire to find out who this "Microsoft" band is. Looks like they have a bunch of albums out. "Viso" "Office 97" "Office 2000 Professional"
PHB1: Forget them. Look at this list. Microsoft must be one of those pathetic "art" bands that just releases the same songs over and over with remixes. Look at thie r "Office" album. They've got Professional, Enterprice, Standard a whole bunch of other s**t comming out every few years. More trouble than we want. I'll bet they eve care about the "Quality" of their work.
PHB2: They could just be good at marketing their music.
PHB1: A musician who can merket?
(Both PHBs laugh)
That starts playing the video of Bill Gates and "Monkey Boy" Balmer getting it on. You really don't want to see that one. The main image on goatse.cx is a screen capture from the film.
Frightening Stuff
Just hit A - B - A - A - A - C - Select and it gives you a "send ROM as e-mail" prompt!
Sweet!
My eyes!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
The sweaty dancing monkey man is out to steal my Linux box!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll kick in $60
The solar flares will burn all life from the Eart-
What? You mean they already hit us and nothing happened?
Never mind.
Say, is that government contractor you mentioned hiring? It sounds like a better job than the one I've got now. I cound be one of the two people doing real work and get more money than I do now!
Wahoo!
First, mirror the site, then set up an eDonkey server. It's a bit more mature and as the MST3K Digital Archive Project can attest, generally a bit more convient for keeping large archives online. Even the best Bittorrent clients out there still parse the entire file on each program load. Not a good thing when dealing with a few gigs of data.
Good authors and artists have nothing to fear from copies of their work on the internet
Which explains why the RIAA is so upset about their skanks ho "singers" having their music on the Internet.
The best way is to have someone read it.
I've always wanted to get together a group to record these great works under some kind of GPL or BSD like license, but never had the time^X^X^X^X energy to make it happen.
The text to speach software out there is OX for reading the news to the blind, but sounds pretty much the same as the old "Speak and Spell" from the 80's. It's a crime against the visually impared.
That said, you can get books on tape and CD from the library and audible.com offers audio books for download at a very reasonable price. (Especally if you get one of their subscription programs that comes with their portable audio device.)
Loading Mozilla loads a Web Browser and Mail client. This consumes time, memory and other resources.
Splitting the applications has many advantages:
Users who just want the web browser will be able to have a smaller download and faster load time.
It will be easier to maintain two separate programs that share a few components than it is to maintain one massive program that does several things.
The act of having two programs that share a few hunks of code (Such as the HTML rendering engine) will result in the shared code being in a state where it's easier to embed in other applications. This may not be intention, but it's a hard to avoid consequence.
People who just want the web browser have been complaining about having to "waste" time, resources and CPU cycles on a mail client they never use, but is still loaded in the background. (And even some of the biggest fans of the mail client admit the browser only users have a point.)
It's a chance to streamline and improve the code.
Both applications can be made faster as individual programs than as a single entity.
The biggest reason is that it gives users more choice.
There are other reasons as well, but the bottom line is there were a lot of reasons to make the change, and not many reasons to hold back.
Support for Intel's damn power saving "feature" where it throttles down the CPU on laptops. Even when I disable it in the BIOS, my laptop still runs at 400 mhz in Linux on AC power instead of the 700 I paid for!
:)
And while we're at it...
Sentience
That's all I ask.
And the ability to pick stocks with the precision that worries the NASD.
Oh, and complete subservience to my will, so my machine will always obey me.
Wait, this is Linux, it already has that last feature.
Seriously though, I'd love to see a defrag utility come out for Linux. I know the file systems supposedly don't need it but PHBs will love it, and whoever is selling a nice GUI version of the thing will make a mint.
I want file by file transparent compression, so I can specify a file be sored in a compressed form and all Linux applications open and use it without knowing it's different from anything else.
Identical capabilities for encrypted files.
Indexing of documents, so I can search files that contain phrases with SQL style syntax.
Real time updates to the database that 'locate' uses.
FIX THE DAMN CUT AND PASTE IN LINUX!!!!!
All in all, none of this is really Kernel stuff, but this is what I want.
I beleive you MEANT to say:
TNG/Farscape slash
The FanFic part is implied by the "Slash" designation.
The ST: is implied if you only meant Star Trek, The Next Generation.
If you meant Classic Trek and Next Generation then you wanted to type:
TOS/TNG/Farscape slash
If you meant all Star Trek Shows:
ST(all)/Farscape Slash
or
ST(all)/FS slash
And of course if it was all about male on male dom on sub action:
ST(all)/FS slash Mm
Or all lesbian action with three subs and a dom:
ST(all)/FS slash Ffff
and if one of the subs is being forced into it:
ST(all)/FS slash Ffff nc
And if you have cross species sex I guess you could use the "Interracial" abbreviation:
ST(all)/FS slash Ffff nc intr
I now have a few members of sales using Mozilla's Firebird for a lot of things, as well as our content development staff.
One guy's IE install was corrupt, and since we're a web based company, this was a serious issue for him. I installed Firebird as a stop gap measure until IE was working again. Set up tabbed browsing, showed him how to block pop ups and went on my merry way. I had IE fixed later that day.
Thing is, he's still using Firebird as much as he can. He came down later that day, AFTER IE was fixed, and thanked me for setting him up with an alternative. He was amazed at how much faster it is.
The content management team loves it because by using Mozilla, Opera and IE they can be logged into three different accounts on the same site without the session data conflicting. This means they can edit content in the Instructor accounts and proof it in a student account.
And if course, Firebird is my main browser at work.
By the way, I found out form one of the developers, that the Boston Glove's online site is maintained using a custom Content Management System that requires Mozilla to operate. The superior options for development and customization make it very attractive to technology firms.
Ahh, S3, the company that made the 3D cards that gave WORSE performance than using software rendering.
the ability to export to PDF and SWF
First it was jobs, now it's women.
If we keep exporting all of the Single White Females, who will geeks date and marry?
Single Black Females?
Japanese?
Native American?
Latino?
Korean?
Chinese?
How about we just import more Russian Mail Order Brides?
From the API FAQ for OpenOffice.
"OpenOffice implements the API with UNO (Universal Network Objects). Currently there are language bindings for Java and C++. You can implement your own language binding, and in fact we are actively looking for a volunteer to create a C language binding.
Additionally UNO allows control from scripting languages and scripting environments (for example debuggers). Currently StarBASIC (VBA syntax compatible) can call on the API and there is a prototype written for Python integration. "
If OpenOffice can di it, I'd wager StarOffice can too. The StarOffice SDK should have all the details.
images.google.com
A search for Dilbert Images
A search for Linux Images
A search for Hot Grits
A search for Natalie Portman
Hell, fark.com uses GIS to refer to the results of a Google Image Search.
Seems MS is once again playing catch up and pretending it's a new idea.
Good, all the brain dead pop fans will drop away, leaving only those trading the good stuff the RIAA members don't sell.