I've got Juno 4.0 build 5 and Yeah Write 1.6 for Win32 running under wine. If the new snapshot allows me to run Homesite, I'm set. I'll never have to run Windows unless I want to play Planescape or Sims! This is so exciting!!!
Freedom!
The great thing about wine is it allows us to run various windows applications under Linux. I want to migrate our office to Linux, and leave Windows in the dust. Sadly, we need Act 4.0 to run, as well as Office. (The sales staff relies heavily on the integration between Office and Act, and there's no Staroffice, Applixware or KOffice integration available)
Our sales staff just doesn't want to leave Act, since they've customized it so much, and it works so well.
BTW: When will we be able to submit new application to the Wine database?? I've got a few listings to add, but the "database is closed to new additions."
Whassa matter, the new kid scare you?
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You know, there was a time when I would have laughed at anyone who suggested a Linux user would bash a new operating system just because it's a new operating system. Now I see that the depths of human hypocrisy extend even to the supposedly "Open-Sourced" Linux community.
It's sad really. Someone comes along and builds something new, and people start tearing it apart just because it's new. Why are so many people afraid of change? For all we know, this OS could eventually whip Linux's A** in more ways than we can count, and leave us all with better operating systems as a result.
Competition is good. It forces everyone to produce better software, unless you're a small minded, frightened little child who's afraid of someone who can out code them.
Diversity is good. If there are 10 different operating systems with their own rules and procedures, then a virus or crack that kills one will leave the others untouched.
Change is good. I've heard a little about the BE API being the easiest to program, and bringing that flexibility to Open Source is a Good Thing(tm)
I remember when I was in high school, a MAC user and I would get into endless debates over which was the better system: MAC or Microsoft. (Back then they were called IBM Compatibles and not WinTel architecture)
"When I became a man I put away childish things," and when I met Linux, I put away my debates of which OS was better than the other. I started focusing on learning which OS was better for what uses.
Novell is my choice for a file server, Windows is what I throw at Newbies, Linux is my primary OS at home, and I'll be using Windows for games until that Open Source DirectX implementation comes along. I keep BE 5.0 around for those times when I manage to hose both Windows and Linux.
I want to try this new OS. It may be good for something that the others aren't. It may not. Whatever the case is, it's small, petty and childish to complain about someone creating a new operating system. They can do whatever the heck they want, it's their computer.
Stop bashing things just because they are new. If everyone attached everything that was new we'd all be sitting in caves eating grass and berries, and I don't like grass all that much.
Why challenge the urge to create a new operating system? What if Linus had said, "Oh, MINIX is just fine for what it does. Why bother changing it?"
You forget the simple fact that human beings are creative and need a challenge. Perhaps the developers think Linux is too krufty? Perhaps they wanted a GOOD API for a change? What if they just wanted an open source achievement like that of BE?
When confronted with the prospect of an unknown ocean, did Columbus shrug and say, "I already have a country to live in, why would I need to visit another?" What if Ford had said, "We already have horses, why would we need something different?" What if ID's developers has collectively decided "We already have Wolfenstein 3D, what more could we do?"
I will close with a quote from the first posting Linus made to Usenet about his then nameless OS: Do you yearn for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?"
From: Bill Gates To: Legal Dept Date: May 10, 2000
We need to clean up our image if we want to create a public outcry against breaking up The Empire. Start by silencing our greatest detractors. Our top priority should be www.slashdot.org. Once they go down those Linux bastards will be disorganized and unable to communicate.
Have you ever tried saving a complex Word 97 document in Word 95 format? If it's just text with some bullets, italics and bolding it's no big deal. If you have graphics, Wordart(tm) or anything more complex than "Left Justify" you're screwed. If you like I can e-mail anyone who asks a sample of what I'm talking about. When I started here, some moron opened a WP file and saved it as a Word file. It took 10 hours to reformat the document because of the arcane features that had been used in the original.
Let's see. We have 130 courses. Some started as WordPerfect, others started as Word, our authors have everything from Word 2.0 to Office 2000, and the pagination changes every time we print on a different printer than the one the document was formatted with. WordPerfect graphics get trashed by Word. Neither WP or word can really open files generated by previous versions of the "same" software!
Now we're loading all the courses on the Internet in HTML format, which Word and WordPerfect can't generate worth spit, which means they all have to be done by hand. Of course, a permanent migration to HTML is out of the question because the owner is too cheap to buy decent HTML editing software, and HTML isn't very good for printing books.
I'd say there's plenty of room for XML to replace the hodgepodge of formats I have to deal with now!
I got this info from the Official Sim's home page. I'm addicted to the game myself.
The "Virus" is part of the Gina Pig download that you get from Maxis. The little sucker will sometimes bite your Sims and make them sick. If they're not healthy (Rested, fed, clean) the illness gets worse and kills them.
The first version of the Guni Pig download almost ALWAYS killed your sims, but Maxis released a new version with a much lower fatality rate.
You can download it from the official home page after you log in (To prove you're a licensed user of the game)
While mostly theoretical, Knuth's "The art of Programming" is a great place to start once you've gone through the other newbie books. Click here to find the boxed set at B&N
Of course, most people would probably prefer to get the individual volumes, or check them out of the library.
Let me get this straight. Red Hat sells Linux. Linux has 4% market share (I read that on/. a little while ago) and this guy expects red Had to have the same training distribution system as the company with 90% market share.
Riiiight!
And he's annoyed that once their people get trained they'll leave for better jobs! Boo Hoo! So sad! The poor baby.
While we're at it, I'll complain about the Italian restaurant with great ambience two towns over being farther away and more expensive than McDonnalds.
I guess he'll just take his ball home and play by himself.
Are people really this dumb? Are there people out there who are that incapable of putting two and two together to figure out the "Why" of a thing before they complain? I don't complain about my Olds having fewer safety features than other cars. I don't complain about the gas mileage, I know what I've got and I work with it!
BTW: I wouldn't attribute the article to FUD. Just people complaining about everything not being exactly the way they want it to be. Sorta like my reaction every time my work computer crashes. "$%*&@$ MS OS!"
Let's be blunt, this is a law designed and passed by paranoid politicians who have no clue what kind of hardware and wetware will be involved in implementing this project. There is no realistic way they'll be able to monitor all of the Internet's traffic without building one of the largest technology centers outside of Redmond. In the end, it will be a paper tiger, a wooden gun. Great for intimidation, but of little use to the thought police.
I keep hitting refresh on the Transmeta homepage, waiting for it to load the new content. This sounds amazing. If this thing is what it sounds like we'll have the ability to run all of the x86 Linux apps from a low cost handheld! The Star Trek data pad melds with the modern PC!!!! All I need to know is this: Will it run Quake?????
This also reminds me of the olden days when BASIC was built into the ROM, and would load if no other OS was available. Anyone else ever get the BASIC ROM Not Found error from a Phoenix bios? (Ah, the memories!)
I remember when Apple was giving schools computers in exchange for grocery receipts. The idea was to get an entire generation to grow up loving Apples. The problem was, instead of demanding apples when they got to the workplace, these kids saw WinTell computers everywhere and conformed. It was a great idea, but Apple lacked the software and market penetration to be viable in the business world.
I mention this so Linux can learn from their mistakes, instead of repeating them...
Why doesn't anyone else get it? Microsoft is behind LinuxOne. They want to destroy Linux, and driving the "Linux" name into the mud is the best way to do it. It's such a simple plan. Have a few thousand people loose their nest eggs to "Linux" and suddenly there's more bad word of mouth floating around the world than Microsoft could buy with $30 million in marketing and advertising.
The end is here ladies and gentlemen. Linux will be slaughtered in the stock market. It will be banned by business as a "phony who can't deliver," Microsoft will use the LinuxOne saga in ad campaigns.
Start porting all your apps to BSD and GNU/HURD. GNU will rise from the ashes of Linux and defeat the vile Antichrist Gates! Linus will be avenged my friends! GNU will avenge us with the righteous sword of Open Source!!!!
Sending KILL signal to "Paranoid Conspiracy" Daemon
ndividuals diagnosed with eye or heart disease or injury or high blood pressure should consult your doctor prior to use
forget your eyes... I'm trying to work out why the above applies?
Well, the eye injury or disease speaks for itself. Head mounted displays are bad for your eyes. The heart disease warning is in case some jerk with a leaky valve decides to sue when he has a heart attack watching his favorite porno. Then they can say, "See! He wasn't even supposed to be using it in the first place!"
Who needs such silly things? I built my own! First, I cannibalized the monitor from a 40 pound 8086 Compaq "Laptop." I then took the 5 inch screen and hooked up a frame that braced it against my chest, and then hooked around my neck. It took a little work to wire it into a standard video port, but I managed it. (You wouldn't believe the looks I got at Radio Shack when I explained the project to the sales clerk. Next time I'll just steal parts from some old gizmo lying around my apartment.)
After that, it was child's play to hook it up to the old 386 Gateway Nomad I had lying around. Since the 80 meg hard drive died a couple years back, I just boot from floppy. The end result is a great device for reading Project Gutenberg texts while riding the train! And it only weighs 10 pounds!!
Why can't Red Hat let anyone else into the market? Ever since they drove Microsoft into bankruptcy they've bought every conceivable service on the planet. They have their little red logo on everything, and whenever someone looks to buy an OS it's either Apple or Red Hat. Why do they have to bundle every conceivable service with their systems??? I want to go with a BSD at work, but my boss won't let us because "Everything works better if it's all Red Hat." 90% market share is a pain in the neck no mater who has it. And while I'm on it, why do I need an Athelon 190 Gigahertz and half Tetrabyte of Ram to run their GUI?!?!?!?! I remember when a Merced with a gig of ram was all you needed for SERIOUS computing!
BTW: Mozilla 18.63 still sucks. No browser download should be 200 megs. What happened to the nice, clean, small 40 meg download from not too long ago. It's getting to the point where us poor cheapskates with a pokey SDSL connection can't get along anymore!
If anyone knows of any reason I should be worried about having just installed SP7 for Novell 4.11 please let me know....
All of our web sites are up and running. www.ets-inc.com is up www.nasdce.com is up (User Name: Free, Password Demo) even hic.nasdtraining.com is up for the moment
Here I sit, waiting for a Novell 4.11 server to finish updating to Service Pack 7 for the Y2K fixes. Why? Because I know nothing about Novell. I was an English Major for crying out loud! Yes I'm OK with QuickBasic and am learning VB5, but does that mean I can be an MIS Director?!?!?!?
I wanted to be a technical writer for heaven's sake. I'd love to be one of those lucky souls working on the Sam's and For Dummies / Idiots / Morons / AOL Users Books, but here I sit.
We HAD relations with some IT contractors, but they haven't returned any calls in months, so the people who set up and installed the Novell Server are nowhere to be found.
Yes, I took a few Programming classes, and yes I'm good with computers, and yes, I've only been stumped half a dozen times in the last year and a half as an MIS Director and yes I'm rewriting software we sell for M$ Style prices and not having any trouble with it, but I've never upgraded a Novell server before!
Help!
I'm not worried about the Win95/98 systems. I've installed every necessary patch from MS, Symantec and everyone else.
Ah, for the legendary stability of Linux! Y2K compliant by it's native design! If only I had the time to take the Mandrake install and my copy of Running Linux and become more than a mildly pathetic Linux Newbie.
Now, if Act 4.0 and Omniform 4.0 run under Wine, I'd be able to migrate most of the office to Linux.....
I'm not a BSD User, but if the figures in the earlier "Average Uptime" article on/. today are anywhere near realistic, I think the BSD flavors will grow along with Linux. They don't have the Linux hype, but they do have the stability, sort of how Linux has been sneaking up on MS for a while now.
Sadly, it's probably only a matter of time before the media starts the "BSV vs Linux" wars with the same salivating stupidity and hype that's powered many "MS vs Linux" stories.
I know I'll probably get roasted alive for this, but I think I'll have to agree with this lawsuit. Companies need to have a format for distributing copyrighted material. How many musicians would there be if there was no way for them to make money off it??
The big things that validate the lawsuit in my mind involve the usurping of the RealPlayer application and replacing logos and search engine links (The whole Snap.com thing.) How would you feel if someone took YOUR source code and removed all evidence that you'd ever worked on it? This goes beyond a neat hack, they altered the functionality of a program without the propper authorization, jeopardizing the revenue source. If it were just a bunch of hackers who did it for fun and GPLed the results I say "So what?" But if someone is making money off this hack......
Now that businesses are discovering the Internet, they'll want to rule it the way they rule everything else. The "Geeks" who built it are nothing more than tools for the larger firms, ways to create products for them to sell. If you get in the "big boy's" way, he'll send his lawyers out to destroy you. It's frustrating, it's depressing and it's the way things are. The worst part is, for most people in this country, a lawsuit over a URL or some other "Internet Thingy" means exactly NOTHING. The lawmakers don't understand what's at stake because the technology is literally beyoned the understanding of most of them. The big companies will continue to rule everything. It's the way it's always been. The "Old Money" is frightened by the young upstarts, and has decided to start the crackdown.
The party's over boys and girls. Time to bend over and let the rulling class have their way with us, or get thrown in jail for resisting.
The only way to fight back is to join my crusade to become Evil Overlord of the Earth. Follow the link below for details: http://users2.50megs.com/mattwmiller/new_laws.html
I remember reading that back in the 1960's (before my parents even met!) when there was a huge explosion in technology firms, there was an accompanying rash of fly-by-night startups that existed just long enough to IPO, make the original investors some cash, and flash out of existence.
Did this hurt the technology explosion? Not really. It was broad based and building off of NASA technology developed during the space race. ("Computers that can fit inside a single room....)
Will this hurt Linux? Most intelligent investors know there are such carpetbagging companies out there, and will either avoid the stock or get burned. Many idiots will associate LinuxOne with Linux as a whole, but these are the same twits who will be dropping all of their Linux stock when the next fad comes along.
We'll probably loose some PHB's in this mess, but most of them will have tech people who will use Linux anyway and use the $$$ allocated for NT licenses for Q3 and TNT cards.....;)
Bottom line, unless there's a massive media blitz, this will only cost us the morons we'd loose in a year or two anyway.
On the flip side, we can all put in some calls. You buy the stock betting it will go down. Someone buys betting it will go up and you get the difference when it tanks! I'm not an investment advisor, I don't even own stock, but the rich guy who rents out space in the building told me this when I told him about LinuxOne.
Funny, I proof courseware about Securities investments, but I don't know squat about it! (The result of reading to find errors and poor readability)
Let me get this straight./. ignores the Microsoft Marketing copy I post on an MS Linux product and the CNN Story about the Y2K fanatic who accidentally blew up his house with leaking propane gas, but posts a story about a lizard man?!?!?!?!?!
Nothing against the lizard man. More power to him. He's looking pretty good in the most recent pics, but come ON!
One of these firms said they have a software program that generates possible names from a database of prefixes, suffixes and other words.
I want to develop an open source version of this thing. All we'd really need are a database of the appropriate word fragments and the "feelings" and "characteristics" that are associated with them. I've got a BA in English with minors in Creative Writing and Business, and am only an mature programmer (You should see the applications I slap together in VB for my employer...) so I'd need help.
Anyone interested in helping to compile the word lists, design the database, write the code etc please e-mail me!
To e-mail me remove the threat from my e-mail address....
Slashdot Mirror
I've got Juno 4.0 build 5 and Yeah Write 1.6 for Win32 running under wine. If the new snapshot allows me to run Homesite, I'm set. I'll never have to run Windows unless I want to play Planescape or Sims! This is so exciting!!!
Freedom!
The great thing about wine is it allows us to run various windows applications under Linux. I want to migrate our office to Linux, and leave Windows in the dust. Sadly, we need Act 4.0 to run, as well as Office. (The sales staff relies heavily on the integration between Office and Act, and there's no Staroffice, Applixware or KOffice integration available)
Our sales staff just doesn't want to leave Act, since they've customized it so much, and it works so well.
BTW: When will we be able to submit new application to the Wine database?? I've got a few listings to add, but the "database is closed to new additions."
Matthew Miller,
You know, there was a time when I would have laughed at anyone who suggested a Linux user would bash a new operating system just because it's a new operating system. Now I see that the depths of human hypocrisy extend even to the supposedly "Open-Sourced" Linux community.
It's sad really. Someone comes along and builds something new, and people start tearing it apart just because it's new. Why are so many people afraid of change? For all we know, this OS could eventually whip Linux's A** in more ways than we can count, and leave us all with better operating systems as a result.
Competition is good. It forces everyone to produce better software, unless you're a small minded, frightened little child who's afraid of someone who can out code them.
Diversity is good. If there are 10 different operating systems with their own rules and procedures, then a virus or crack that kills one will leave the others untouched.
Change is good. I've heard a little about the BE API being the easiest to program, and bringing that flexibility to Open Source is a Good Thing(tm)
I remember when I was in high school, a MAC user and I would get into endless debates over which was the better system: MAC or Microsoft. (Back then they were called IBM Compatibles and not WinTel architecture)
"When I became a man I put away childish things," and when I met Linux, I put away my debates of which OS was better than the other. I started focusing on learning which OS was better for what uses.
Novell is my choice for a file server, Windows is what I throw at Newbies, Linux is my primary OS at home, and I'll be using Windows for games until that Open Source DirectX implementation comes along. I keep BE 5.0 around for those times when I manage to hose both Windows and Linux.
I want to try this new OS. It may be good for something that the others aren't. It may not. Whatever the case is, it's small, petty and childish to complain about someone creating a new operating system. They can do whatever the heck they want, it's their computer.
Stop bashing things just because they are new. If everyone attached everything that was new we'd all be sitting in caves eating grass and berries, and I don't like grass all that much.
Matthew Miller,
Why challenge the urge to create a new operating system? What if Linus had said, "Oh, MINIX is just fine for what it does. Why bother changing it?"
You forget the simple fact that human beings are creative and need a challenge. Perhaps the developers think Linux is too krufty? Perhaps they wanted a GOOD API for a change? What if they just wanted an open source achievement like that of BE?
When confronted with the prospect of an unknown ocean, did Columbus shrug and say, "I already have a country to live in, why would I need to visit another?" What if Ford had said, "We already have horses, why would we need something different?" What if ID's developers has collectively decided "We already have Wolfenstein 3D, what more could we do?"
I will close with a quote from the first posting Linus made to Usenet about his then nameless OS: Do you yearn for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?"
By God, some of us do.
Matthew Miller,
Internal Microsoft Memo:
From: Bill Gates
To: Legal Dept
Date: May 10, 2000
We need to clean up our image if we want to create a public outcry against breaking up The Empire. Start by silencing our greatest detractors. Our top priority should be www.slashdot.org. Once they go down those Linux bastards will be disorganized and unable to communicate.
Matthew Miller,
Have you ever tried saving a complex Word 97 document in Word 95 format? If it's just text with some bullets, italics and bolding it's no big deal. If you have graphics, Wordart(tm) or anything more complex than "Left Justify" you're screwed. If you like I can e-mail anyone who asks a sample of what I'm talking about. When I started here, some moron opened a WP file and saved it as a Word file. It took 10 hours to reformat the document because of the arcane features that had been used in the original.
Matthew Miller,
Now we're loading all the courses on the Internet in HTML format, which Word and WordPerfect can't generate worth spit, which means they all have to be done by hand. Of course, a permanent migration to HTML is out of the question because the owner is too cheap to buy decent HTML editing software, and HTML isn't very good for printing books.
I'd say there's plenty of room for XML to replace the hodgepodge of formats I have to deal with now!
Matthew Miller,
I got this info from the Official Sim's home page. I'm addicted to the game myself.
The "Virus" is part of the Gina Pig download that you get from Maxis. The little sucker will sometimes bite your Sims and make them sick. If they're not healthy (Rested, fed, clean) the illness gets worse and kills them.
The first version of the Guni Pig download almost ALWAYS killed your sims, but Maxis released a new version with a much lower fatality rate.
You can download it from the official home page after you log in (To prove you're a licensed user of the game)
Matthew Miller,
While mostly theoretical, Knuth's "The art of Programming" is a great place to start once you've gone through the other newbie books. Click here to find the boxed set at B&N
Of course, most people would probably prefer to get the individual volumes, or check them out of the library.
Mmmmmmmmm. hagis. Yum.
Soooooo
/. a little while ago) and this guy expects red Had to have the same training distribution system as the company with 90% market share.
Let me get this straight. Red Hat sells Linux. Linux has 4% market share (I read that on
Riiiight!
And he's annoyed that once their people get trained they'll leave for better jobs! Boo Hoo! So sad! The poor baby.
While we're at it, I'll complain about the Italian restaurant with great ambience two towns over being farther away and more expensive than McDonnalds.
I guess he'll just take his ball home and play by himself.
Are people really this dumb? Are there people out there who are that incapable of putting two and two together to figure out the "Why" of a thing before they complain? I don't complain about my Olds having fewer safety features than other cars. I don't complain about the gas mileage, I know what I've got and I work with it!
BTW: I wouldn't attribute the article to FUD. Just people complaining about everything not being exactly the way they want it to be. Sorta like my reaction every time my work computer crashes. "$%*&@$ MS OS!"
Varsion 5.0 will be a free download for personal use.
Comes out in March
www.be.com
Let's be blunt, this is a law designed and passed by paranoid politicians who have no clue what kind of hardware and wetware will be involved in implementing this project. There is no realistic way they'll be able to monitor all of the Internet's traffic without building one of the largest technology centers outside of Redmond. In the end, it will be a paper tiger, a wooden gun. Great for intimidation, but of little use to the thought police.
This also reminds me of the olden days when BASIC was built into the ROM, and would load if no other OS was available. Anyone else ever get the BASIC ROM Not Found error from a Phoenix bios? (Ah, the memories!)
I mention this so Linux can learn from their mistakes, instead of repeating them...
Why doesn't anyone else get it? Microsoft is behind LinuxOne. They want to destroy Linux, and driving the "Linux" name into the mud is the best way to do it. It's such a simple plan. Have a few thousand people loose their nest eggs to "Linux" and suddenly there's more bad word of mouth floating around the world than Microsoft could buy with $30 million in marketing and advertising.
The end is here ladies and gentlemen. Linux will be slaughtered in the stock market. It will be banned by business as a "phony who can't deliver," Microsoft will use the LinuxOne saga in ad campaigns.
Start porting all your apps to BSD and GNU/HURD. GNU will rise from the ashes of Linux and defeat the vile Antichrist Gates! Linus will be avenged my friends! GNU will avenge us with the righteous sword of Open Source!!!!
Sending KILL signal to "Paranoid Conspiracy" Daemon
"Paranoid Conspiracy" Daemon is now shut down
forget your eyes... I'm trying to work out why the above applies?
Well, the eye injury or disease speaks for itself. Head mounted displays are bad for your eyes. The heart disease warning is in case some jerk with a leaky valve decides to sue when he has a heart attack watching his favorite porno. Then they can say, "See! He wasn't even supposed to be using it in the first place!"
After that, it was child's play to hook it up to the old 386 Gateway Nomad I had lying around. Since the 80 meg hard drive died a couple years back, I just boot from floppy. The end result is a great device for reading Project Gutenberg texts while riding the train! And it only weighs 10 pounds!!
Why can't Red Hat let anyone else into the market? Ever since they drove Microsoft into bankruptcy they've bought every conceivable service on the planet. They have their little red logo on everything, and whenever someone looks to buy an OS it's either Apple or Red Hat. Why do they have to bundle every conceivable service with their systems??? I want to go with a BSD at work, but my boss won't let us because "Everything works better if it's all Red Hat." 90% market share is a pain in the neck no mater who has it. And while I'm on it, why do I need an Athelon 190 Gigahertz and half Tetrabyte of Ram to run their GUI?!?!?!?! I remember when a Merced with a gig of ram was all you needed for SERIOUS computing!
BTW: Mozilla 18.63 still sucks. No browser download should be 200 megs. What happened to the nice, clean, small 40 meg download from not too long ago. It's getting to the point where us poor cheapskates with a pokey SDSL connection can't get along anymore!
If anyone knows of any reason I should be worried about having just installed SP7 for Novell 4.11 please let me know....
All of our web sites are up and running.
www.ets-inc.com is up
www.nasdce.com is up (User Name: Free, Password Demo)
even hic.nasdtraining.com is up
for the moment
Here I sit, waiting for a Novell 4.11 server to finish updating to Service Pack 7 for the Y2K fixes. Why? Because I know nothing about Novell. I was an English Major for crying out loud! Yes I'm OK with QuickBasic and am learning VB5, but does that mean I can be an MIS Director?!?!?!?
I wanted to be a technical writer for heaven's sake. I'd love to be one of those lucky souls working on the Sam's and For Dummies / Idiots / Morons / AOL Users Books, but here I sit.
We HAD relations with some IT contractors, but they haven't returned any calls in months, so the people who set up and installed the Novell Server are nowhere to be found.
Yes, I took a few Programming classes, and yes I'm good with computers, and yes, I've only been stumped half a dozen times in the last year and a half as an MIS Director and yes I'm rewriting software we sell for M$ Style prices and not having any trouble with it, but I've never upgraded a Novell server before!
Help!
I'm not worried about the Win95/98 systems. I've installed every necessary patch from MS, Symantec and everyone else.
Ah, for the legendary stability of Linux! Y2K compliant by it's native design! If only I had the time to take the Mandrake install and my copy of Running Linux and become more than a mildly pathetic Linux Newbie.
Now, if Act 4.0 and Omniform 4.0 run under Wine, I'd be able to migrate most of the office to Linux.....
Sadly, it's probably only a matter of time before the media starts the "BSV vs Linux" wars with the same salivating stupidity and hype that's powered many "MS vs Linux" stories.
The big things that validate the lawsuit in my mind involve the usurping of the RealPlayer application and replacing logos and search engine links (The whole Snap.com thing.) How would you feel if someone took YOUR source code and removed all evidence that you'd ever worked on it? This goes beyond a neat hack, they altered the functionality of a program without the propper authorization, jeopardizing the revenue source. If it were just a bunch of hackers who did it for fun and GPLed the results I say "So what?" But if someone is making money off this hack......
The party's over boys and girls. Time to bend over and let the rulling class have their way with us, or get thrown in jail for resisting.
The only way to fight back is to join my crusade to become Evil Overlord of the Earth. Follow the link below for details: http://users2.50megs.com/mattwmiller/new_laws.html
Did this hurt the technology explosion? Not really. It was broad based and building off of NASA technology developed during the space race. ("Computers that can fit inside a single room....)
Will this hurt Linux? Most intelligent investors know there are such carpetbagging companies out there, and will either avoid the stock or get burned. Many idiots will associate LinuxOne with Linux as a whole, but these are the same twits who will be dropping all of their Linux stock when the next fad comes along.
We'll probably loose some PHB's in this mess, but most of them will have tech people who will use Linux anyway and use the $$$ allocated for NT licenses for Q3 and TNT cards..... ;)
Bottom line, unless there's a massive media blitz, this will only cost us the morons we'd loose in a year or two anyway.
On the flip side, we can all put in some calls. You buy the stock betting it will go down. Someone buys betting it will go up and you get the difference when it tanks! I'm not an investment advisor, I don't even own stock, but the rich guy who rents out space in the building told me this when I told him about LinuxOne.
Funny, I proof courseware about Securities investments, but I don't know squat about it! (The result of reading to find errors and poor readability)
Nothing against the lizard man. More power to him. He's looking pretty good in the most recent pics, but come ON!
I guess I won't even bother with Reverend Alexander Cornswalled's essay on how Pokemon is from the Devil.....
I want to develop an open source version of this thing. All we'd really need are a database of the appropriate word fragments and the "feelings" and "characteristics" that are associated with them. I've got a BA in English with minors in Creative Writing and Business, and am only an mature programmer (You should see the applications I slap together in VB for my employer...) so I'd need help.
Anyone interested in helping to compile the word lists, design the database, write the code etc please e-mail me!
To e-mail me remove the threat from my e-mail address....