If IBM is truly embracing Linux, this is really good for both IBM and the Linux community.
For IBM, this means that they are showing that they really understand technology. It's a great turnaround for a company that was still pushing the utterly useless OS/2 not that long ago.
For the Linux community, this means a long-term solid name to rely on for support. That's wonderful, as international companies will be able to get support anywhere, and smaller companies that really want a reliable solution will look at the IBM label as a plus.
We all know tha good and bad of Linux and where it's best used. It's great to see a large company like IBM (ok, really HUGE company) lending a good deal of support.
As for this being counterculture, well, the N.Y. Times' ignorance is showing once again. Oh well.
Does it HAVE to be sponsored by Red Hat? Can anybody else come and help out and get this underway? It's s tragedy to see something like this disappear...
Maybe one of those billionaires starting universities or donating to the UN would help out.:-)
I would dare say that AOL has a right to stop them from doing this work on their own time, or sack them for doing so. Being that the work is seen as a threat to the company (or morever to Time/Warner and EMI), that's grounds to sack someone.
The other thing is that AOL doesn't have to allow them to use any resources to develop it. That means not only the webspace and bandwidth of the Nuillsoft site, but also any in-house machines, etc. Heck, even if they bring in their own machines and use AOL-paid electricity, that's grounds.
AOL has done all they really can do, and that's fine. It's open-source with an open license, so, well, it's too late. Let's not huff an puff about AOL doing what any intelligent company would do, had they been so dumb to allow this to happen in the first place.
I wonder if any of this judge has ever tried to run a business and received spam. Working at an ISP, I know that a lot of spam passes through here and that we have a lot of clients on 56k modems (not ISDN).
When a company has to download, wait, store, read through, and destroy junk mail that's not clearly identifiable as junk mail, it takes time. It hurts their business. Most businesses I know that use e-mail engage in interstate commerce and are adversely affected by spam.
So, in all reality, this judge really has no clue about what will or will not truly adversely affect interstate commerce.
When voting, be sure to elect tech-savvy officals!
It was a bit sad to read through and only see Windows benchmarks. Granted, they are the easiest to come by, but since I only use Windows on my laptop, it really doesn't matter to me.
Anyone thinking of doing a follow up for other systems? I'd really like to see how it does in XFree86, as well as if there are any possible forthcoming drivers for BeOS.
I used to work in the computer support department of a college. Setting up Linux boxes takes a bit of work, but it definitely no harder to deal with than NT. It all depends on what you let people do with them.
We set up a number of web kiosks all over the place on old 386s. A bit of work at first, but in the end, all that could be done was surf on them. If they crashed, they rebooted and logged back in and only allowed the programs on them.
Since most colleges only want people to use authorized programs, it's much easier to do such things with linux boxes. If you set the bios so that it's not possible to floppy boot, you're set!
Oh well. Stupid Microsoft mindset. Well, I supported an NT system and the number of times students messed those things up was far more than any linux box.
As reported in The Scotsman today (and e-mailed to me):
A grandfather is set to fulfil a lifetime's ambition by holding his official 21st birthday party - 63 years after handing out the invitations.
Martin Grundy was born on February 29 in the leap year of 1916 and so celebrates a proper birthday every four years.
As a law student in 1937, he held an informal 21st party with a few drinks on February 28 - and told undergraduates to come to the proper party in 2000.
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Nope. I won't call you gay. Homophobic in the extreme, maybe. Gay, nope.
In my years of MUDing, I started to play female characters a lot. It's rather fun. There are a couple reasons.
1.) Female characters don't get whomped right away. - People tend to be nice to them. 2.) They have more style. I don't know why, but rarely is a female warrior disgusting and brutish. They're mean, nasty, tough, but stylish. 3.) It balances the game a bit more. I'm sorry, but, well, there are just too many mail characters. 4.) It helps stop dorks from hitting on people in games. When they realise that they've tried to hit on a guy, they feel dumb and wonder a little before they try again.
Oh well. Those are my reasons. What reasons do the rest of you have?
Seriously! I am a fundamentalist. I object to all of us being portrayed as a bunch of morons. However, I must agree that organisations like the Family Research Council and the Christian Coalition are HORRIBLE. They're pig-headed and very Pharisaic . I'm sorry. Just please don't blame the fundamentalist. If you want, please just call them Pharisees.
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I feel very sorry for a bunch of researcher who really don't understand what socialising is. Chatting with my friends online is very similar to chatting with them on the phone. I have travelled a lot, and have recently moved back to the US. If I were to rely on the telephone to talk to them, I'd go broke. If I sent mail by post, I would communicate less.
Then there's also the fact that I'm extremely busy. I have lots of work to do at my job. When people can e-mail me events instead of trying to get a hold of me on my busy phone, then I can schedule time to spend with them. I can plan my life and fit socialising in, without necessarily excluding work or other friends.
Yeah, I used to work with academians. Like people who hide in books and labs should tell us how real life functions.
Everybody seems to keep talking about having a mobile system or a PDA as a separate instrument.
What about being on at network? As data speeds keep going up for wireless, imagine being able to be connected on a network all the time, transferring your data back and forth.
Combine this with a wearable system with a heads up display. Ok, so now I can access my data, read it, and walk without bumping into things. Add GPS to it, and I can't easily get lost (and hey, we CAN store some things locally for when we're in the middle of nowhere).
What else could we do? Input? Well, if we get to the point of good speech recognition, that's possible, and perhaps someday subvocals? How else to do input? Spatially displayed keyboards? Wear a glove, on or off? Type in midair?
Batteries are in issue, but given the electric current in our bodies and the amount of walking we could be doing, there could be multiple new ways of converting power from ourselves, either chemically or kinetically.
Can't wait to see the military applications of something like this! Of course, used against us, that would suck. ------
I find it very strange that this happens just as I've picked up Shadowrun: Third Edition. The Net to a great number of people in this country is AOL. I loathe AOL. Almost anyone I know dislikes AOL. People who cannot really use computers (like my parents) use AOL because "It's easy".
Of course, these are the same people who read Time, People, and watch CNN for their news. Yes, easy-to-use, no control, no real content news.
Does anyone see a pattern?
I read BBC News, The Scotsman, etc. I can't wait for BBC World to come to the US in the spring.
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Well, as simple justification for making players and viewers, open source means that the companies themselves don't have to spend money building them.
Macromedia makes their money off the tools, not the viewers/players. The more people that have the viewers, the more viable Macromedia's products are.
Basically, with the open source for the viewers, Macromedia now will get to either a) put mor emoney into development of the tools or b) make more money, or most likely (because they're cool) c) both.
I'm not a major geek, but I'm a hobby geek and I know what keeps me in an area.
First off, it helps a lot if there's cheap roomy housing. Not houses, per se, but converted warehouses. Somewhere where I can dump 20 - 30 machines without too much trouble.
Secondly, I like form and function to go hand in hand, so I like to shop at IKEA. So, any place that has an IKEA nearby is good with me.
Third, a good walking culture is nice. I don't like to drive everywhere, especially after writing copious quantities of code. Coffee houses are great, as are bagel shops.
Fourth, I need a good-paying job. This equipment ain't cheap, and I sure as heck don't wish to spend more than 75% of my salary on it. So, I need to be able to make money doing it.
Last, but not least, good Internet access is essential. If I can get a T-1 for a reasonable amount, I'm thrilled. DSL is nice too.
So, if you want to keep people like me around, build big warehouses and turn them into wired flats above coffeehouses where I can work from home for a company that will pay for my hardware and Swedish furniture fetishes.
Yup, I'll be surviving Y2K in the only properly fitting way - hanging out with those who don't rely on technology.
Having acclimated to the perpetual 50 degree weather inside Grandma's house, I figure we can burn about 3 logs a day and stay perfectly warm. We can cook on the woodstove too.
Now, when it does get a bit nippy, I have the Scotch.
Any since those freezers contain SO MUCH FOOD, well, last estimate was we'd need to get food come March. (Ok, so one can't really live on only ice cream, but who cares, right?)
And, don't forget the board games! Yes, Grandma has bought something like 30 games over the past few years. There's nothing better than playing Scrabble and Monopoly!
I think the stats on Windows 2000 and BeOS should be looked at very carefully. These two OSes will go down not necessarily due to instability but due to sysadmins playing with them.
With Windows 2000, the system people have isn't finished, and as patches have come out, well, they get applied, and as they get applied, well, the OS must restart (it IS Windows).
Now, for Be, there are very few people I know who would run it as a standard server. Plus, on top of that, there are lots of new programs coming out. I don't think they require a reboot, but, well, we'll see. At any rate, BeOS isn't really designed to be a server (yet).
The shocking part is how little Novell servers manage to stay up. How many goverment institutions do I know that just bought those? That's pathetic. I knew that Netware was a pain to run, but I didn't know is was that tought to maintain.
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If IBM is truly embracing Linux, this is really good for both IBM and the Linux community.
For IBM, this means that they are showing that they really understand technology. It's a great turnaround for a company that was still pushing the utterly useless OS/2 not that long ago.
For the Linux community, this means a long-term solid name to rely on for support. That's wonderful, as international companies will be able to get support anywhere, and smaller companies that really want a reliable solution will look at the IBM label as a plus.
We all know tha good and bad of Linux and where it's best used. It's great to see a large company like IBM (ok, really HUGE company) lending a good deal of support.
As for this being counterculture, well, the N.Y. Times' ignorance is showing once again. Oh well.
Does it HAVE to be sponsored by Red Hat? Can anybody else come and help out and get this underway? It's s tragedy to see something like this disappear...
:-)
Maybe one of those billionaires starting universities or donating to the UN would help out.
I would dare say that AOL has a right to stop them from doing this work on their own time, or sack them for doing so. Being that the work is seen as a threat to the company (or morever to Time/Warner and EMI), that's grounds to sack someone.
The other thing is that AOL doesn't have to allow them to use any resources to develop it. That means not only the webspace and bandwidth of the Nuillsoft site, but also any in-house machines, etc. Heck, even if they bring in their own machines and use AOL-paid electricity, that's grounds.
AOL has done all they really can do, and that's fine. It's open-source with an open license, so, well, it's too late. Let's not huff an puff about AOL doing what any intelligent company would do, had they been so dumb to allow this to happen in the first place.
I wonder if any of this judge has ever tried to run a business and received spam. Working at an ISP, I know that a lot of spam passes through here and that we have a lot of clients on 56k modems (not ISDN).
When a company has to download, wait, store, read through, and destroy junk mail that's not clearly identifiable as junk mail, it takes time. It hurts their business. Most businesses I know that use e-mail engage in interstate commerce and are adversely affected by spam.
So, in all reality, this judge really has no clue about what will or will not truly adversely affect interstate commerce.
When voting, be sure to elect tech-savvy officals!
It was a bit sad to read through and only see Windows benchmarks. Granted, they are the easiest to come by, but since I only use Windows on my laptop, it really doesn't matter to me.
Anyone thinking of doing a follow up for other systems? I'd really like to see how it does in XFree86, as well as if there are any possible forthcoming drivers for BeOS.
I used to work in the computer support department of a college. Setting up Linux boxes takes a bit of work, but it definitely no harder to deal with than NT. It all depends on what you let people do with them.
We set up a number of web kiosks all over the place on old 386s. A bit of work at first, but in the end, all that could be done was surf on them. If they crashed, they rebooted and logged back in and only allowed the programs on them.
Since most colleges only want people to use authorized programs, it's much easier to do such things with linux boxes. If you set the bios so that it's not possible to floppy boot, you're set!
Oh well. Stupid Microsoft mindset. Well, I supported an NT system and the number of times students messed those things up was far more than any linux box.
A grandfather is set to fulfil a lifetime's ambition by holding his official 21st birthday party - 63 years after handing out the invitations.
Martin Grundy was born on February 29 in the leap year of 1916 and so celebrates a proper birthday every four years.
As a law student in 1937, he held an informal 21st party with a few drinks on February 28 - and told undergraduates to come to the proper party in 2000.
Nope. I won't call you gay. Homophobic in the extreme, maybe. Gay, nope.
In my years of MUDing, I started to play female characters a lot. It's rather fun. There are a couple reasons.
1.) Female characters don't get whomped right away. - People tend to be nice to them.
2.) They have more style. I don't know why, but rarely is a female warrior disgusting and brutish. They're mean, nasty, tough, but stylish.
3.) It balances the game a bit more. I'm sorry, but, well, there are just too many mail characters.
4.) It helps stop dorks from hitting on people in games. When they realise that they've tried to hit on a guy, they feel dumb and wonder a little before they try again.
Oh well. Those are my reasons. What reasons do the rest of you have?
Seriously! I am a fundamentalist. I object to all of us being portrayed as a bunch of morons. However, I must agree that organisations like the Family Research Council and the Christian Coalition are HORRIBLE. They're pig-headed and very Pharisaic . I'm sorry. Just please don't blame the fundamentalist. If you want, please just call them Pharisees.
I feel very sorry for a bunch of researcher who really don't understand what socialising is. Chatting with my friends online is very similar to chatting with them on the phone. I have travelled a lot, and have recently moved back to the US. If I were to rely on the telephone to talk to them, I'd go broke. If I sent mail by post, I would communicate less.
Then there's also the fact that I'm extremely busy. I have lots of work to do at my job. When people can e-mail me events instead of trying to get a hold of me on my busy phone, then I can schedule time to spend with them. I can plan my life and fit socialising in, without necessarily excluding work or other friends.
Yeah, I used to work with academians. Like people who hide in books and labs should tell us how real life functions.
Everybody seems to keep talking about having a mobile system or a PDA as a separate instrument.
What about being on at network? As data speeds keep going up for wireless, imagine being able to be connected on a network all the time, transferring your data back and forth.
Combine this with a wearable system with a heads up display. Ok, so now I can access my data, read it, and walk without bumping into things. Add GPS to it, and I can't easily get lost (and hey, we CAN store some things locally for when we're in the middle of nowhere).
What else could we do? Input? Well, if we get to the point of good speech recognition, that's possible, and perhaps someday subvocals? How else to do input? Spatially displayed keyboards? Wear a glove, on or off? Type in midair?
Batteries are in issue, but given the electric current in our bodies and the amount of walking we could be doing, there could be multiple new ways of converting power from ourselves, either chemically or kinetically.
Can't wait to see the military applications of something like this! Of course, used against us, that would suck.
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I find it very strange that this happens just as I've picked up Shadowrun: Third Edition. The Net to a great number of people in this country is AOL. I loathe AOL. Almost anyone I know dislikes AOL. People who cannot really use computers (like my parents) use AOL because "It's easy".
Of course, these are the same people who read Time, People, and watch CNN for their news. Yes, easy-to-use, no control, no real content news.
Does anyone see a pattern?
I read BBC News, The Scotsman, etc. I can't wait for BBC World to come to the US in the spring.
Oh well, screw the masses. That's why they pay us so much. Because we can do what they never will.
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And people say that big government is useless.. Hah!
Macromedia makes their money off the tools, not the viewers/players. The more people that have the viewers, the more viable Macromedia's products are.
Basically, with the open source for the viewers, Macromedia now will get to either a) put mor emoney into development of the tools or b) make more money, or most likely (because they're cool) c) both.
First off, it helps a lot if there's cheap roomy housing. Not houses, per se, but converted warehouses. Somewhere where I can dump 20 - 30 machines without too much trouble.
Secondly, I like form and function to go hand in hand, so I like to shop at IKEA. So, any place that has an IKEA nearby is good with me.
Third, a good walking culture is nice. I don't like to drive everywhere, especially after writing copious quantities of code. Coffee houses are great, as are bagel shops.
Fourth, I need a good-paying job. This equipment ain't cheap, and I sure as heck don't wish to spend more than 75% of my salary on it. So, I need to be able to make money doing it.
Last, but not least, good Internet access is essential. If I can get a T-1 for a reasonable amount, I'm thrilled. DSL is nice too.
So, if you want to keep people like me around, build big warehouses and turn them into wired flats above coffeehouses where I can work from home for a company that will pay for my hardware and Swedish furniture fetishes.
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Yup, I'll be surviving Y2K in the only properly fitting way - hanging out with those who don't rely on technology.
Having acclimated to the perpetual 50 degree weather inside Grandma's house, I figure we can burn about 3 logs a day and stay perfectly warm. We can cook on the woodstove too.
Now, when it does get a bit nippy, I have the Scotch.
Any since those freezers contain SO MUCH FOOD, well, last estimate was we'd need to get food come March. (Ok, so one can't really live on only ice cream, but who cares, right?)
And, don't forget the board games! Yes, Grandma has bought something like 30 games over the past few years. There's nothing better than playing Scrabble and Monopoly!
Happy New Year everyone!
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I think the stats on Windows 2000 and BeOS should be looked at very carefully. These two OSes will go down not necessarily due to instability but due to sysadmins playing with them.
With Windows 2000, the system people have isn't finished, and as patches have come out, well, they get applied, and as they get applied, well, the OS must restart (it IS Windows).
Now, for Be, there are very few people I know who would run it as a standard server. Plus, on top of that, there are lots of new programs coming out. I don't think they require a reboot, but, well, we'll see. At any rate, BeOS isn't really designed to be a server (yet).
The shocking part is how little Novell servers manage to stay up. How many goverment institutions do I know that just bought those? That's pathetic. I knew that Netware was a pain to run, but I didn't know is was that tought to maintain.