What we need is an anti-trust law suit against Microsoft for this Winmodem scam.
It is quite clear that Winmodems stiffles the competition in the OS market. People are going to be forced to by MS Windows [TM, Crashus Everytimus] just to use their modem. This is far more dangerous than releasing I.E., free with Win9x to kill Netscape.
Even performance-wise, Winmodems suck as much as windows, because the CPU and the operating system endup doing work the Modem can do itself. Therefore, the customer is not getting the best deal possible. So I believe customer protection groups have a case here.
And as Winmodems degrade the performance of the machine in question, Microsoft [TM, Killcompetitus Maximus] can not, in any sane way, claim that Winmodems are an advancement in technology. It is just another diabolical project by Microsoft Dirty-tricks Department [TM], to make sure that humanity shall forever be doomed by a substandard operating system.
Windows 95: n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
A friend of mine painted his plans to pain his Box black, put pipes around it, and stick wasted circuits from a old computer on it. He was mentioning something about Borg....
This very same friend, got hold of an 1979 Apple home-computer, took out its inards, and fixed his Dual Celeron 550 SMP system inside. He even removed the original keyboard, and replaced it with AT keyboard after sawing off the Numeric Pad ( to make it fit in the Apple Box ).
Note: For those of whom are unaware of what an Apple home-computer of 1979 looks like, it looks like a Modern day Electronic Typewriter. The VDU was your very own TV. You had to use a audio-cassette recorder as it lacked a Hard-drive OR a floppy drive.
A government, be it in USA or Republic of Tonga, cannot bring about justice. The only thing a government can do is enforce a set of utilitarian rules, that, the goverment thinks, will maximise happiness. These rules make up the Law of the land.
Justice, however, goes much deeper, its boundries are ill-defined. As the saying goes, what's legal, is not always just. The reverse is also true. It is legal for a good lawyer to charge exhorbitant prices for his services, but it is not just. Why is it not just ? Simply because as only the rich (i.e., capitalist pigs), can afford expensive high-flying lawyers, and the outcome of a court-case, is greatly influenced by the skills of one's lawyer, it is quite clear that so called justice system does not serve everybody equally, rather, rich people get more justice than poor.
The rich-poor disparity is much much higher in US than in many social democracies. The rich man in US has a more fun than a rich man in, say, UK of Finland. But the poor man in a social democracy is assured of his food, of his health and well-being, his child's education. I doubt the same could be said about an economically underclass woman in USA.
My view is that we are not mature as a species yet to live in an anarchic state. We still need governments to wet-nurse us, like a child needs his parents. However, once the human race matures, and we all realise that power should not be one's goal in life, and that greed is character strait unworthy of a human being, then we can begin dismantling governments.
Till then, we have to put up with this necessary evil.
I don't think Prof Hawking's fingers are as nimble as those of an avarage person's. Therefore, if he used Morse code, he would end up communicating evem slower.
In Sri Lanka there is a TV station called MTV which stands for Maharaja Telivision. Then another TV station started broadcasting MTV as in Music Television. The Maharaja company obtained an interim injunction order banning MTV ( Music TV).
However, when the case was finally heard, the Music TV people won.
So I guess even if some rogue company tries to trademark Linux in Sri Lanka, the international trademark will prevail.
I'll check on this and write a letter to my friends in LUG to, if possible, obtain a registration on behalf of Linus.
Glad to see that thousands of us feel for the cute pengi-wengies.
However, I have to remind you that there are thousands of poor, homeless, destitute people around the world, dying in streets, suffering in refugee camps, and there are hundreds and thousands (no, that's not a gross over estimation ) of children orphaned by wars and natural disasters.
I believe we should think about those people too. They may not be as cute as penguins, but they sure need our help.
This is another step forward in the red march against the tide of globalisation. Globalisation, as everybody knows, is a euphamism for subjugation of less well to do countries by the capitalist pigs to form there evil economic empire.
Scary as it might seem, this evil empire is already taking form across the globe. The sweat shops, the millions of people who have had their livelyhoods destroyed because of imports and the proliferation of Coca-cola, Pizza hut and last but not the least Microsoft bear testimony to this. This evil empire, is by far more pervasive than the USSR ever was.
Yes, China is doing the right thing. It is showing the world that nations can break free from the clutches of the capitalist swines. A good example for other economically colonised countries to follow.
3. As Redhat and other commercial vendors make linux progressively user friendly, it will become more and more MS Windows[tm] like, i.e., bloated, inflexible and unstable.
2. Microsoft will release a OS with a Linux kernel named "MS Venician Blinds"
1. People will do better things with there lives than make lists for each and everything.
I have the same name is Linus !!!
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Linus Torvalds and I have the same Wu name, Radiophonic Oddity. I always knew I had something in common with Linus:o)
Y2K was really bad. I know of quite a few guys, who knew next to nothing about computers, suddenly turning themselves into Y2K consultants, and making shedloads of money.
I am not denying that there was a problem, and, that a lot of honest people did a lot of hard work to make sure that Y2K bug was nothing but a harmless tick, but for some unscrupulous people, it was a source of lot of easy money.
I am pretty sure those ones partied happily over NYE because they had there ill-gotten gains to spend.
Is it yet another triumph for the open source community, or is Redhat going the wrong way (i.e., the Microsoft way) ? I think it is a bit too early to judge.
The trouble began a week ago, according to a company press release, when it began a $2 million system upgrade. The company claims data on its "nameserver" became corrupted, Hello ? Ever heard of the word backup ?? And nameserver not nameservers ? So redundency isn't in your vocabulary I see.
A kitchen knife could be used to kill someone. Therefore, we should ban knives, knife manufactures warehouses raided, the weapons siezed, and the factories closed down.
The irony of it is, there are two US agencies, FBI and the CIA, that make use of these devices quite frequently, for surreptitious listening. I believe that the average user, uses it mostly for educational or recreational purposes.
I feel that these raids are a way for the US government and its dirty tricks departments to aquire there surreptitius intercept devices free of charge.
Charityware n. Free software distributed together with the source code, where other developers are encourage to improve its performance. Example: Linux, Apache
Payware n. Software that one has to pay for the usage, and distributed only as binary files, i.e, the source code is not available. Only the original author(s) may improve upon the product. Example: MS Windows, MS Office
Now if one were to consider the relative merits and demerits of Windows and Linux, or Apache and any commercial web server, one would come to the realisation that All good things in life are free
It is a 2-in-1 strategy. Firstly, as snack said more people will by the cheaper stock. Secondly, all the hype around it is free advertising for the Playstation II. Rather the than the PSII affecting the stock price, the stock price might positively (for SONY atleast) affect the PSII sales.
On an entirely different note, isn't PS2 a registered trademark of the IBM Corp ?
I too feel a degree of pettiness in that article. I doubt any of the people who phone tech support ever get offended by UF because frankly, they are the more than unlikely to read User Friendly. Even if they do once, they would not probably understand the humour, assume that it sucks, and never go there again.
From my personal experience, I have suffered a lot, because some of my friends think that I know everything about computers because I use Linux, and I get quite a lot of tech-support phone calls everyday. If it is regarding Linux, I gladly help, if it is regarding Windows, well, I still grudgingly help. Unfortunately too many people use Windows, and too many problems crop up with that OS, as all of you would agree.
One day a friend of mine phoned me and told me that he had lost all his work. He told me a friend of his had sent him word document as WinZip file, and my friend had unzipped it, has done some work on it, and called it day. The next morning he has gone back to the zip, unzipped it, pressed 'Y'........
I know that a person in Mozambique or Bangladesh cannot go into social assistance forever, and that, people in these countries, and most of the so called third world are living in abject poverty. People who used to farm their lands and who had enough food to feed themselves, are begging on the streets as a result of the so called New World Order that the whole globe is entagled in. I have been to some of the poorest countries in the world, so I have first hand information, and thus my opinions are not based on what I read from a random newspaper.
Never in my posting did I doubt the Technological advances we have made during the last 100 years. However, if you consider the number of people who died as a result of wars this century, as a percentage of the number of people who ever lived during the 100 years, you would also realise the extent of moral decay prevalent during that period.
If you have and open mind and would care to witenss the actual retreat we have made in the last 100 years (as opposed to to the rosy figures printed on UN bulletins), try going down to Sub-Saharan Africa. It won't change your mind, but it just might make you understand that some people may never inherit that future world.
I think the whole article is full of soundbites, but in reality it barks more than it bites. There quite a lot of points that I truly do not agree with in that prose, which could have been made a quite lot more understandable only if he refrained from using such obscure words and phrases. First, I believe what went wrong in the 20th century was that technology evolved at the expense of humanity. Most nations and peoples in the world were far worse at the 20th century's end than at the beginning. To use the cliched phrase, The rich got richer, and the poor got poorer. However, I do agree that internet is a liberating force, but to whom ? The majority of the worlds population do not have access to drinking water, let alone the internet. For them the need of the hour is flow of water, not the flow of information. While I truly agree that sites such as Slashdot have a great potential when it comes to ensuring human freedom of expression, the majority of the people do not visit them. Those who do, are often well infromed, and those who need to be informed, well, they are far too caught up in the consumeristic culture of the internet, the culture that prevailed during the 20th century, and which, I, and, many others hoped, that we would leave at the doorstep of the 21st. I really do not want to make this posting as boring as the original posting, so to sum up, while technology can do a lot to make our future shine bright, and technological innovation is of necessity, I believe that we should spend, at least a tiny fraction of our time analysing what where we went wrong as species during the last century, and to make sure that we do not repeat the age old mistakes, and make this century as lousy as the last.
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It is quite clear that Winmodems stiffles the competition in the OS market. People are going to be forced to by MS Windows [TM, Crashus Everytimus] just to use their modem. This is far more dangerous than releasing I.E., free with Win9x to kill Netscape.
Even performance-wise, Winmodems suck as much as windows, because the CPU and the operating system endup doing work the Modem can do itself. Therefore, the customer is not getting the best deal possible. So I believe customer protection groups have a case here.
And as Winmodems degrade the performance of the machine in question, Microsoft [TM, Killcompetitus Maximus] can not, in any sane way, claim that Winmodems are an advancement in technology. It is just another diabolical project by Microsoft Dirty-tricks Department [TM], to make sure that humanity shall forever be doomed by a substandard operating system.
Windows 95: n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
This very same friend, got hold of an 1979 Apple home-computer, took out its inards, and fixed his Dual Celeron 550 SMP system inside. He even removed the original keyboard, and replaced it with AT keyboard after sawing off the Numeric Pad ( to make it fit in the Apple Box ).
Note: For those of whom are unaware of what an Apple home-computer of 1979 looks like, it looks like a Modern day Electronic Typewriter. The VDU was your very own TV. You had to use a audio-cassette recorder as it lacked a Hard-drive OR a floppy drive.
However, it is quite sad that not many women decided to follow in her footsteps, because I think it would be really cool to date a geek girl.
Justice, however, goes much deeper, its boundries are ill-defined. As the saying goes, what's legal, is not always just. The reverse is also true. It is legal for a good lawyer to charge exhorbitant prices for his services, but it is not just. Why is it not just ? Simply because as only the rich (i.e., capitalist pigs), can afford expensive high-flying lawyers, and the outcome of a court-case, is greatly influenced by the skills of one's lawyer, it is quite clear that so called justice system does not serve everybody equally, rather, rich people get more justice than poor.
The rich-poor disparity is much much higher in US than in many social democracies. The rich man in US has a more fun than a rich man in, say, UK of Finland. But the poor man in a social democracy is assured of his food, of his health and well-being, his child's education. I doubt the same could be said about an economically underclass woman in USA.
My view is that we are not mature as a species yet to live in an anarchic state. We still need governments to wet-nurse us, like a child needs his parents. However, once the human race matures, and we all realise that power should not be one's goal in life, and that greed is character strait unworthy of a human being, then we can begin dismantling governments.
Till then, we have to put up with this necessary evil.
I don't think Prof Hawking's fingers are as nimble as those of an avarage person's. Therefore, if he used Morse code, he would end up communicating evem slower.
However, when the case was finally heard, the Music TV people won.
So I guess even if some rogue company tries to trademark Linux in Sri Lanka, the international trademark will prevail.
I'll check on this and write a letter to my friends in LUG to, if possible, obtain a registration on behalf of Linus.
So I guess this is going to be a bit like xceed otherway around. That's cool, now I can finally play minesweeper !
Glad to see that thousands of us feel for the cute pengi-wengies.
However, I have to remind you that there are thousands of poor, homeless, destitute people around the world, dying in streets, suffering in refugee camps, and there are hundreds and thousands (no, that's not a gross over estimation ) of children orphaned by wars and natural disasters.
I believe we should think about those people too. They may not be as cute as penguins, but they sure need our help.
Scary as it might seem, this evil empire is already taking form across the globe. The sweat shops, the millions of people who have had their livelyhoods destroyed because of imports and the proliferation of Coca-cola, Pizza hut and last but not the least Microsoft bear testimony to this. This evil empire, is by far more pervasive than the USSR ever was.
Yes, China is doing the right thing. It is showing the world that nations can break free from the clutches of the capitalist swines. A good example for other economically colonised countries to follow.
Once the false hacker ( or cracker or whomever) is lured into their parlour, he will be tortured and his trade secrets extracted.
And then they will be imprisoned for life, and the DoD admins will never have to worry about network security issues again.
2. Microsoft will release a OS with a Linux kernel named "MS Venician Blinds"
1. People will do better things with there lives than make lists for each and everything.
Linus Torvalds and I have the same Wu name, Radiophonic Oddity. I always knew I had something in common with Linus :o)
I am not denying that there was a problem, and, that a lot of honest people did a lot of hard work to make sure that Y2K bug was nothing but a harmless tick, but for some unscrupulous people, it was a source of lot of easy money.
I am pretty sure those ones partied happily over NYE because they had there ill-gotten gains to spend.
Is it yet another triumph for the open source community, or is Redhat going the wrong way (i.e., the Microsoft way) ? I think it is a bit too early to judge.
The trouble began a week ago, according to a company press release, when it began a $2 million system upgrade. The company claims data on its "nameserver" became corrupted, Hello ? Ever heard of the word backup ?? And nameserver not nameservers ? So redundency isn't in your vocabulary I see.
A kitchen knife could be used to kill someone. Therefore, we should ban knives, knife manufactures warehouses raided, the weapons siezed, and the factories closed down.
The irony of it is, there are two US agencies, FBI and the CIA, that make use of these devices quite frequently, for surreptitious listening. I believe that the average user, uses it mostly for educational or recreational purposes.
I feel that these raids are a way for the US government and its dirty tricks departments to aquire there surreptitius intercept devices free of charge.
Payware n. Software that one has to pay for the usage, and distributed only as binary files, i.e, the source code is not available. Only the original author(s) may improve upon the product. Example: MS Windows, MS Office
Now if one were to consider the relative merits and demerits of Windows and Linux, or Apache and any commercial web server, one would come to the realisation that All good things in life are free
By the way, this is the real world.
It is a free anonymous encrypted proxy with the option of URL encryption.
I had to use it to read the playboy article because JANET ( the sort of academic internet backbone of UK ) even soft porn is illegal.
Anyway, considering that Linux was around for some 9 years, I think the author is a tad over excited about this "new" OS.
On an entirely different note, isn't PS2 a registered trademark of the IBM Corp ?
Yet another gizmo designed to turn our utopian dream into an Orwellian nightmare.
I was hoping to do better than the average, which is supposed 59 days according to the uptime project.
The box is working perfectly, so I am wondering wether to upgrade or not. After all, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Nobody really knows this beside Geller, and that's beside the point.
There two important facts here:
1. People have the right not to be depicted as a little orange monster by a multibillion dollar multinational organisation.
2. $97 Million has more to do with greed than about redressing one's violated rights.
If Mr Geller really wants to make a point, I suggest that he declares that if he wins, he will donate the money to charity.
From my personal experience, I have suffered a lot, because some of my friends think that I know everything about computers because I use Linux, and I get quite a lot of tech-support phone calls everyday. If it is regarding Linux, I gladly help, if it is regarding Windows, well, I still grudgingly help. Unfortunately too many people use Windows, and too many problems crop up with that OS, as all of you would agree.
One day a friend of mine phoned me and told me that he had lost all his work. He told me a friend of his had sent him word document as WinZip file, and my friend had unzipped it, has done some work on it, and called it day. The next morning he has gone back to the zip, unzipped it, pressed 'Y' ........
Never in my posting did I doubt the Technological advances we have made during the last 100 years. However, if you consider the number of people who died as a result of wars this century, as a percentage of the number of people who ever lived during the 100 years, you would also realise the extent of moral decay prevalent during that period.
If you have and open mind and would care to witenss the actual retreat we have made in the last 100 years (as opposed to to the rosy figures printed on UN bulletins), try going down to Sub-Saharan Africa. It won't change your mind, but it just might make you understand that some people may never inherit that future world.
I think the whole article is full of soundbites, but in reality it barks more than it bites. There quite a lot of points that I truly do not agree with in that prose, which could have been made a quite lot more understandable only if he refrained from using such obscure words and phrases. First, I believe what went wrong in the 20th century was that technology evolved at the expense of humanity. Most nations and peoples in the world were far worse at the 20th century's end than at the beginning. To use the cliched phrase, The rich got richer, and the poor got poorer. However, I do agree that internet is a liberating force, but to whom ? The majority of the worlds population do not have access to drinking water, let alone the internet. For them the need of the hour is flow of water, not the flow of information. While I truly agree that sites such as Slashdot have a great potential when it comes to ensuring human freedom of expression, the majority of the people do not visit them. Those who do, are often well infromed, and those who need to be informed, well, they are far too caught up in the consumeristic culture of the internet, the culture that prevailed during the 20th century, and which, I, and, many others hoped, that we would leave at the doorstep of the 21st. I really do not want to make this posting as boring as the original posting, so to sum up, while technology can do a lot to make our future shine bright, and technological innovation is of necessity, I believe that we should spend, at least a tiny fraction of our time analysing what where we went wrong as species during the last century, and to make sure that we do not repeat the age old mistakes, and make this century as lousy as the last.