Certainly a good idea, but it's highly unlikely that any of these fence sitters are going to read Slashdot or even care what the readers of Slashdot say. If they have no clue, then they aren't going to get a clue from us (unless we form a lobbyist group and start dropping money).
While you may or may not like Rep. Boucher, he is better situated in getting clueless Representatives and Senators to understand things because he is one of them, not some random person outside of their district.
Ivo from Distributed.net had a.plan update about their cows and Foot-and-Mouth:
:: 23-Mar-2001 15:24 (Friday)::
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Several distributed.net participants have expressed their concern with
regard to the distributed.net client and the recent outbreaks of
Foot-and-Mouth disease.
Some members asked if they could moove their computer with the cow client
on it, others were afraid to flush the cow, and thus spreading the disease
around the world, even to the master servers of distributed.net in the
United States.
distributed.net's CCO (Chief Cow Officer) Jeff Lawson acted swiftly and
called his high school buddy EU Food Safety Commissioner Mr David Byrne.
Mr Byrne went great ways to grant distributed.net an exception to the very
strict transportation ban currently in place in large parts of Western
Europe.
distributed.net assures its members they can go on and flush as ever
before. There is no need to slaughter (kill -9) their cattle or let the
flushed blocks go to/dev/cesspool, as recommended by various national
governments in Western Europe. Also, piling up blocks and transport them
only after the crisis is over is strongly deprecated.
distributed.net wants to make very clear that the recent disease in some
cows, dubbed the "8012-flaw", has nothing to do with the initial outbreak
of Foot-and-Mouth disease in England earlier this month, despite of rumors
circulating the internet.
If you suspect your cow is infected with the virus and want to be on the
safe side, go to http://www.distributed.net/trojans.html and download our
'wormfree' program. Be advised, though, that in most parts of the world,
virus vaccination of cows is forbidden! distributed.net will in no case
accept liability when participants get fined because of illegal vaccination.
Being "free" hasn't exactly invigorated the BeOS scene. I doubt QNX will fair any better.
Maybe, maybe not. I don't think you can compare BeOS to QNX. QNX is targeted for realtime, embedded work while BeOS was a desktop OS replacement (sure Be is now going to the "appliance" market).
BeOS and QNX are also marketed differently. BeOS was trying to do retail, wasn't working, so they went free and probably didn't lose that much revenue. BeOS already lost, it can't hurt to go free.
QNX isn't retail so they really don't hurt themselves by giving it away since they added the "non-commercial" use thing. QNX doesn't have anything to lose, it can't hurt to go free (with that clause). It may even help if people start hacking away at it. What you use at home influences what you use at work.
There was a suggestion that the Library of Congress maintain it. Nowhere did anybody from the government or the Library of Congress said they would maintain it or even if there is any interest in maintaing it.
Personally, I'll give Google the benefit of the doubt and see what their plans are. They just bought the archives this month. Give them a little time to sort out what happened (remember that Deja was running with a skeleton staff before Google bought it) before anybody starts flaming Google. Now if it's a year from now and nothing's happened, that's a different matter...
You knew this "story" was going to get posted. It has all of the hallmarks of an automatic post: big, bad public company that doesn't do GPL very well (+2 for Apple, +5 for MS) sues (+1) GPL group (+1) over patent (+5) first mentioned in Linux website (+1). Ding! Ding! Ding! Automatic post...
Okay, I'll bite... how does Cobalt suing Apple demonstrate to Apple how stupid the idea is? I take it that you mean a cubed Mac is a stupid idea, not the fact that it looks like the Cobalt Qube since you're defending Apple in the next couple of paragraphs.
I remember that, too. I think it was a PBS special on when Shoemaker-Levy/9 (RIP Eugene) after it slammed into Jupiter. Jupiter barely shuddered, but the plume on the fragment G was larger than the Earth.
What I would really like to see is a browser with different modes for Web programmers. Something where you can turn off various features so you can see how different browsers behave for a given HTML code. For example, have a checkbox that turns on/off HTML 4 tags. Some things I'd like to turn on and off:
HTML version selection with both strict and uhhh... not-so-strict conformance
JavaScript with version selection
Frames
CSS with version selection
an MSIE vN.0 compatible mode
a Netscape vN.0 compatible mode
Screen size restrictions so I can see the pinhole that 640x480 user looks through
Lynx mode:-)
A little bit overkill, but turning off individual tags might not be too bad either.
Slashdot Mirror
For those who missed it, here's a very brief overview of the CSO: http://www.infonorth.org/diamonds/html/diamond_mar keting.html thanks to Google. Apparent mirror site at http://www.gov.nt.ca/RWED/diamond/project7.htm
Doesn't look Slashdotted to me. Works fine.
At any rate, www.opensource.apple.com is running Mac OS X with Apache (of course) according to Netcraft.
Certainly a good idea, but it's highly unlikely that any of these fence sitters are going to read Slashdot or even care what the readers of Slashdot say. If they have no clue, then they aren't going to get a clue from us (unless we form a lobbyist group and start dropping money).
While you may or may not like Rep. Boucher, he is better situated in getting clueless Representatives and Senators to understand things because he is one of them, not some random person outside of their district.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Several distributed.net participants have expressed their concern with regard to the distributed.net client and the recent outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth disease.
Some members asked if they could moove their computer with the cow client on it, others were afraid to flush the cow, and thus spreading the disease around the world, even to the master servers of distributed.net in the United States.
distributed.net's CCO (Chief Cow Officer) Jeff Lawson acted swiftly and called his high school buddy EU Food Safety Commissioner Mr David Byrne. Mr Byrne went great ways to grant distributed.net an exception to the very strict transportation ban currently in place in large parts of Western Europe.
distributed.net assures its members they can go on and flush as ever before. There is no need to slaughter (kill -9) their cattle or let the flushed blocks go to /dev/cesspool, as recommended by various national
governments in Western Europe. Also, piling up blocks and transport them
only after the crisis is over is strongly deprecated.
distributed.net wants to make very clear that the recent disease in some cows, dubbed the "8012-flaw", has nothing to do with the initial outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth disease in England earlier this month, despite of rumors circulating the internet.
If you suspect your cow is infected with the virus and want to be on the safe side, go to http://www.distributed.net/trojans.html and download our 'wormfree' program. Be advised, though, that in most parts of the world, virus vaccination of cows is forbidden! distributed.net will in no case accept liability when participants get fined because of illegal vaccination.
There are more photos at the University of Washington Super-K website.
Maybe, maybe not. I don't think you can compare BeOS to QNX. QNX is targeted for realtime, embedded work while BeOS was a desktop OS replacement (sure Be is now going to the "appliance" market).
BeOS and QNX are also marketed differently. BeOS was trying to do retail, wasn't working, so they went free and probably didn't lose that much revenue. BeOS already lost, it can't hurt to go free.
QNX isn't retail so they really don't hurt themselves by giving it away since they added the "non-commercial" use thing. QNX doesn't have anything to lose, it can't hurt to go free (with that clause). It may even help if people start hacking away at it. What you use at home influences what you use at work.
There was a suggestion that the Library of Congress maintain it. Nowhere did anybody from the government or the Library of Congress said they would maintain it or even if there is any interest in maintaing it. Personally, I'll give Google the benefit of the doubt and see what their plans are. They just bought the archives this month. Give them a little time to sort out what happened (remember that Deja was running with a skeleton staff before Google bought it) before anybody starts flaming Google. Now if it's a year from now and nothing's happened, that's a different matter...
You knew this "story" was going to get posted. It has all of the hallmarks of an automatic post: big, bad public company that doesn't do GPL very well (+2 for Apple, +5 for MS) sues (+1) GPL group (+1) over patent (+5) first mentioned in Linux website (+1). Ding! Ding! Ding! Automatic post...
"Our consumer customers get dynamic IP addresses," said Sean Danes, a spokesman for Pacific Bell DSL, a large DSL provider.
Flame @Home all you want, but don't flame them for the DHCP = security statement. Flame 'em for other stuff, of course. :-)
Okay, I'll bite... how does Cobalt suing Apple demonstrate to Apple how stupid the idea is? I take it that you mean a cubed Mac is a stupid idea, not the fact that it looks like the Cobalt Qube since you're defending Apple in the next couple of paragraphs.
I remember that, too. I think it was a PBS special on when Shoemaker-Levy/9 (RIP Eugene) after it slammed into Jupiter. Jupiter barely shuddered, but the plume on the fragment G was larger than the Earth.
- HTML version selection with both strict and uhhh... not-so-strict conformance
- JavaScript with version selection
- Frames
- CSS with version selection
- an MSIE vN.0 compatible mode
- a Netscape vN.0 compatible mode
- Screen size restrictions so I can see the pinhole that 640x480 user looks through
- Lynx mode
:-)
A little bit overkill, but turning off individual tags might not be too bad either.NAI/McAfee called that particular virus W95/Firkin.worm:
= 98557
c hode.worm.html
http://vil.nai.com/villib/dispVirus.asp?virus_k
Symantec called it BAT911.worm:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/bat.