Lets look at the most recent things that has cause nasa to get into the news... ahh yes... it's ability to crash things into alien planets...
Remember way back when we were all five and we would crash things and make the big `splosion noises then go eat macaronni? Well I think nasa is just one noodle short of a 5 year old here.
Another thing. If you were an alien considering making contact with the so called superior organism would you take kindly to them crashing things into your planet or bringing remote control cars in your lawn?... no of course not.
If nasa wants to keep good PR with mars they need to negotiate a landing zone and coordinate a way for the lander to enter into the martian atomosphere. This crashing business will just cause the martians to have ill feelings towards humans and we just can't have that.
I've been waiting to try out Be ever since I heard they were going to release a free version of it. I like free stuff... hence why I like the internet and linux and bsd and all kinds of other things.
My one question is that Be can be a stand-alone operating system, but can also be run on top of windows. This is where I start to get confused. Now I loaded winlinux2000 on my computer and it said it loaded on top of windows when in reality it's just a FAT32 install of what looks like redhat that requires loadlin to get it up and going.
So is BeOS a windows/mac shell or is it an operating system?... BTW did Be announce source code release?
Well webpage layout and techniques are being used everywhere. Let's contrast CNN and Attrition... both are fairly visted websites. But attrition relies on what it writes unlike CNN that relies on images....
The real question is... how much more impressive is an article about potatoes with images tables javascripts php perl cgi and whatever... compared to the simple bare-minimum html page with nothing other than black text on a white background. The article doesn't change... The potato still grows... so what's the need for extra space? People like eye candy... just look at microsoft.
Freewwweb is for windows and mac only as well... and worldshare isn't even up any more... But adding a harddrive to an iOpener will allow you to load windows up...
Hey this was an idea that every geek jumped on... $100 for a computer... under $100 more to throw a harddrive in... around $30 for Lan and Mouse... and for around say $200 you had a working computer with monitor that was actually really small.
Whoa... wait this isn't possible... how in the world could netpliance do this? Ahhh yes the Internet service... take a $5 a month internet service and charge $20 for it... within a year the I-Openers would reap in millions of dollars... until some geek decided he wanted to play inside his. If they were going to have such a cow why didn't they just lease the boxes?...
As for canceling the Service or getting a free service like NetZero, FreeI, TheSimpsons, Lycos, Altavista, or BlueLight you are forced into this horrid agreement. Not to mention what if you own a cable modem and want to just network the box into the home lan. Can't do that.
I actually can see the article in maximum PC's "Watchdog" right now... Netpliance will soon be the enemy that once stood in the place of WebTv... BTW why has no one hacked one of those yet?
One will work on the operating system the other on network apps... I don't really get it either. It's like Bill having a company then a judge says "hey ummm no". Then they take bills company and give control of it to someone else. Can you see Linus Torvaldos with MS OS and ummm whoever the CEO of Netscape is today as the head of MS NET.
Impression of Linux viewing the windows source code... Linus: okay show me Tech: Are you sure sir? Linus: yes Tech: here goes Linus: hahahahaha okay now wheres the real code Tech: that's it sir Linus: This is QBasic... Tech: well no one else seemed to care... Linus: first line is REM Hehehehehe stupid people
Breakups always hurt companies and this isn't a technological witch hunt. It's a monopoly case. Just because they're a monopoly doesn't mean people don't rely on them. Breaking them up will only hurt MS as a whole and would even hurt the computer world. Can you see Windows Distributions... as if this wasn't bad enough in windows. Cross compatability would be a joke. Developement would be non-existant. And people would be forced back into the late 80's with all these GUI's that no one understood.
And when it's all said and done everyone can have some Distributed Open Cookies and Milk. They can call it project DOCM and link it to www.docm.org. And when it's all said and done they can keep the clients going by trying to prove OJ guilty. But not before both a Mac and Linux port are made.
The whole thing can be set up as a client to search for aliens. Everyone will buy it. Such silly people...
MS has been bound and determined to either stomp or buy its competition (kind of like AOL) in order to suceed... this is just America saying just because you're rich doesn't mean you're right. I'm more than happy to see that the DoJ won't be bribed or even told how they will act about rulings.
As for MS they really don't seem to be hurting much... 567 billion dollars and the second most valuable company in the world. I don't know about you, but I think 1 billion could pretty much set me up for the rest of my life fairly well. But this has been absolutely great for Linux and other operating systems. RedHat especially knew how to play off the situation. There were a number of Linux IPO's and even better I saw more drivers start to come out for hardware in linux. Maybe it's all just coincidence... but I doubt it.
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until you make someone mad and they decide that you need to wake up at 4 in the morning. Adding net access to an alarm clock will not only bring up security issues but more importantly Announce issues.
remember when you didn't like bathroom phone calls
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Remember when it really urked you when you got a phone call from someone in the bathroom. Does the same hold true if they're emailing you from the bathroom. And what if the netcam hooked up to the sink showed too much of the shower. Personally I see anything new brought into the bathroom becoming a social taboo.
Okay so lets look at this practically... A stove that stores receipes. That doesn't mean you'll cook it right or that you'll have all the ingredients you need. And who really wants to surf the net while washing dishes.
Okay what will make the net will be set standards of audio and video. Instead of having to compete with real media, ms media, mpeg, or any other type of media. Once an open set standard is made you'll be able to listen to the toaster play www.Ihearlotsofstandardizedmusicandevenmoreads.com while you're waiting for your eggo or poptart.
So now we've got set standards for video and audio... wonderful... now we have to battle for platforms. GREAT... there's the linux toaster the MS toaster and even better the toaster toaster... but open source fans will like the linux toaster no matter what... even if toaster toaster releases the source. Everyone else will love MS toaster for it's ease of use and prettiness.
So do we really need new toasters... because I'm happy with my poptart right now like it is...
Let's look at napster. Wow a choppy piece of software that if you don't have at least a cable modem or DSL line it's really dumb to even think about using the software. Now lets look at the victims here. I think it's the modem users. Those poor people have to rely on getting maybe two or three songs a day. I'm sure that's REALLY hurting the poor music industry. Funny they don't whine when you hear their music on the radio, but wait that means we have to listen to all those annoying ads that are horrible. Do I really care about how to get a used car when I'm in the mood to jam to metallica... nooo
So where's my RadIo from philips?:-)... TiVo made it possible to watch prerecorded televisions shows without being able to view the commercials. And funny... I bet FOX didn't loose any money because of it. People who like music don't want to waste gobs of harddrive space in order to hear a song over and over and over and over again. It's the kids who hear a song on the radio with all thos annoying ads that make napster flourish.
So who's the victim? Not that it really matters, but it's not the music industry. No matter how much the RIAA loses NEGATIVE dollars or how many extremely horrible teeny popper bands go into the pages of "Have beens" the music industry will still make money because people want to listen to the CD and not some CD-R thing with sharpie marker over the top of it.
So some advice. hey Music Industry and RIAA... shut up get back into your expensive cars and your expensive suits and leave the computer world alone because the "digital vandal age" is what got you that nice car and new suit. I'll sit here in my t-shirt with a collection of CD's.
well we could hope that, but in all reality we won't... but what reality are we talking about... according to the quantum thereom everything in the future has happened everything in the past will happen and everything defined as the "now" does not exist.
really starts to get to you after a while doesn't it?
Imagine with me just for a moment a computer that is so fast and wonderful that it's even more powerful than EVERY computer in the world today combined.
Now imagine what that computer could do. Could decode genomes, could crack codes, could find the largest prime number, could discover the smallest form of measurement, could map out the entire universe, or could even cure the most deadly diseases.
There's the practical uses. Now let's look at the quantum theory. Remember the "Time travel theory". Recently reading the book Timeline by Michael Crichton I was introduced more indepth into the thereom itself. It deals wiuth the fact that time doesn't exist, but an infinite number of realities or instances exist. Thus not making timetravel possible, but dimension jumps possible. Thus making reality no longer defined, but confused.
So now what do we consider. Who's hands this technology will get into. This would be the ultimate code breaker along with the ultimate weapon. Imagine one person being able to change all of history or to be able to get into any computer they want to. The world itself would become a non-existant entity.
Considering NASA keeps wanting to crash things in space I don't know how much I'd want to fund them either. The new idea behind nasa is "make it cheap and hope it works"(maybe I should TM that?). Anyways... The cost behind a project to send a probe to mars have it walk around pick up rocks re-dock itself then takeoff from mars would be a huge project that would take tons of funding. Not to mention in the 2 years it would take it to get there the technology would already be so much greater there'd be some idiot on TV wondering why they used such old technology.
Here's where we get the funding. First off we make the mission GPL. Then we take all the command protocols and run them from Linux. We'll use a whole bunch of Alphas and just stack them together and then we'll get RedHat to be a sponsor for it. So now we've got Compaq and RedHat as sponsors. Now let's get AT&T to provide the communications for it. Hmmm then we need to televise it. And who better to televise something that is "out of this world" than Fox networks. Then of course we could have people pay $10K to have their name engraved on the side in extremely small letters. So now we have the whole Linux community behind it. Simpsons fans behind it. Long distance callers behind it. Simple computer users. And rich people with way too much money. And what's best... NASA. Then of course we'd have to make sure NASA promised not to intentionally crash it so we could see how big of a cloud it would make. (though we all know the scientists had a poll going).
Well okay I look at the huge amount of bandwidth you can get from the new lines that are coming out, but what proccessor can handle that much speed? I know that the pIII "was made around the internet" but I think this is too much bandwidth for even that.
So what good would this serve for the rest of the world? Okay so backbones could be instantly connected throughout the world. We'd see less seek time. Maybe even be able to sync DNS entries faster. But the cost of this alone would be huge. And what happens when a squirrel decides to knaw a lil hole in the fiber? You just lost a heap of bandwidth right there. Fiber is great, but it's also fragile. You need to insulate and pad it quite a bit to make it worthwhile. And considering we still rely on satellite for most international networking I don't see this helping any of us for at least another 5 - 10 years.
Well it looks like there's more hype as to the O/S wars. With Walnut Creek/BSDi merger. And the hype behind linux. And the money behind Sun, Hp, Compaq, etc. We're about to embark on a whole new type of competition. Look at today in comparison to 5 years ago. Everyone was going crazy to get win95... and there was a small group of linux users out there trying to make applications. Then comes the MS Anti-Trus lawsuit. Just what the Alt-OS category needs. But when will the Alt-Os category hold windows and Mac OS? Commercial Operating systems say "Waruntee and Support" but they hold a price tag that the small business and average computer user would not want to pay. So here comes the BSD/Linux/Unix Freebies. Sun picked up on the Idea making solaris free. SCO has a free version of their OS. Linux has always been free. Along with *Bsd... well not BSD/OS... but ohh well:)... So what do we wait for now? Freewin?
Okay... AOL owns alot of our media... 24 million people use their online services. How much longer will we accept AOL as a dictator among us? I personally can't stand knowing that the news I watch or the magazines I read will be censored to AOL's standards. The music age, media age, and internet will all be changed because we're going to let it. I believe it's about time to start an AOL boycott... this is getting out of hand.
I've always wondered why cdrom.com always had the latest Linux software free to download off of one of the biggest ftp's I know. And now that walnut creek who distributes FreeBSD while joining with BSDi will look to merge the two operating systems? I do hope if you're looking to scrap one of the O/S's that you choose BSDi because of the main fact most everyone can agree... we love FreeBSD more.
The one thing I like about your company and your site is that you sell the CD's, but you also offer ISO's to anyone who wants to download the CD's themselves. This shows that you're in it to promote Slack and FreeBSD more so than to be in it for just the money. So with that gesture alone I do plan on buying the Slack 7 CD set even though I know I can download the install ISO and grab all the utilities online.
Now I know sendmail is a great program that has helped the whole community of linux/unix users alike. It stands right up there with apache as one of the highest servers around. I personally grow weary of it though. Of all the security issues involved with senmail... is it really that safe?
Hey I dunno for sure, but it seems that I left 4 gold bars in the trash to weight it down to keep the animals out... could anyone find those and return them to me.
Ohh yeah... and 2 new cars... stupid me I left them too close to the curb... the garbage people must of just picked them up by accident.
I hate this where domains are registered in hopes that they'll sell for big money some day. There's people who pride themselves on stealing these domains. Or mistype domains like www.slasdit.org that take you to some kind of nudie site. Now I see why this would be profitable, but how can it not be a trademark viloation?
Right now I'm using a Linksys 10/100 card plugged into a Linksys 5 port HUB connected via Linksys RJ-45 cable. I've always used Linksys for my home networking because of price and because of the fact that it works. The only other network card I've ever been more impressed with is my D-Link 10 card that has an actual EPROM on it that you can switch IRQ's and other settings directly from dos (though this does pose a problem in linux even though you can use a dos emulator).
As for them teaming up with linux that's great maybe they could make they're own specific drivers even though the NE2000 driver works just fine for both the D-Link and the Linksys.
Since Turbo comes packaged with Samba this should be a win win situation. Home network with a good network and a great operating system
It's amazing to see speeds like this coming out. Who knows where we'll be in the next 10 years. Because I remember 10 years ago with breaking 100 mhz was the coolest thing. So do we look forward to 1 terrahertz?
As I've posted before I wonder how many people who buy these 1ghz machines will actually use them to there full potential. I personally would be pumping out all kinds of distributed programs and would definantelly consider NOT using windows.
BTW how many of these 1ghz Athalons can you stack together. Or do they have to stand alone... because I've yet to see a dual athalon box.
I'm glad that atari is out and may have a chance to gain some more media, but with the public infatuated with Sony, Sega, and Nintendo... there really isn't much room for other competition. Now don't get me wrong... my first gaming machine was an atari and I rocked qbert, pac-man, and frogger.
Now atari released the jag and I was really impressed, but it uses cartridges (I do believe there's a CD Ad-on) which make it limited. The reason I don't know too much about it would have to be the key fact that it's not popular. I'm sure people have one, but not as many as Dreamcasts, N64, and PlayStations. And with the release of PS2 comming out I don't know how much more time Atari actually has.
Did everyone forget about the Black Box that Microsoft is coming out with. Or the fact that PS2 can browse the web and play DVD's... heck PS2 might even bring competition to WebTV and standard DVD players along with companies like Atari.
And a special thanks to all the lamers who managed to make this forum look all that more childish. Nice maturity guys.
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Remember way back when we were all five and we would crash things and make the big `splosion noises then go eat macaronni? Well I think nasa is just one noodle short of a 5 year old here.
Another thing. If you were an alien considering making contact with the so called superior organism would you take kindly to them crashing things into your planet or bringing remote control cars in your lawn? ... no of course not.
If nasa wants to keep good PR with mars they need to negotiate a landing zone and coordinate a way for the lander to enter into the martian atomosphere. This crashing business will just cause the martians to have ill feelings towards humans and we just can't have that.
My one question is that Be can be a stand-alone operating system, but can also be run on top of windows. This is where I start to get confused. Now I loaded winlinux2000 on my computer and it said it loaded on top of windows when in reality it's just a FAT32 install of what looks like redhat that requires loadlin to get it up and going.
So is BeOS a windows/mac shell or is it an operating system? ... BTW did Be announce source code release?
The real question is ... how much more impressive is an article about potatoes with images tables javascripts php perl cgi and whatever ... compared to the simple bare-minimum html page with nothing other than black text on a white background. The article doesn't change ... The potato still grows ... so what's the need for extra space? People like eye candy ... just look at microsoft.
Freewwweb is for windows and mac only as well ... and worldshare isn't even up any more ... But adding a harddrive to an iOpener will allow you to load windows up ...
Whoa ... wait this isn't possible ... how in the world could netpliance do this? Ahhh yes the Internet service ... take a $5 a month internet service and charge $20 for it ... within a year the I-Openers would reap in millions of dollars ... until some geek decided he wanted to play inside his. If they were going to have such a cow why didn't they just lease the boxes? ...
As for canceling the Service or getting a free service like NetZero, FreeI, TheSimpsons, Lycos, Altavista, or BlueLight you are forced into this horrid agreement. Not to mention what if you own a cable modem and want to just network the box into the home lan. Can't do that.
I actually can see the article in maximum PC's "Watchdog" right now ... Netpliance will soon be the enemy that once stood in the place of WebTv ... BTW why has no one hacked one of those yet?
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MS NET
One will work on the operating system the other on network apps ... I don't really get it either. It's like Bill having a company then a judge says "hey ummm no". Then they take bills company and give control of it to someone else. Can you see Linus Torvaldos with MS OS and ummm whoever the CEO of Netscape is today as the head of MS NET.
Impression of Linux viewing the windows source code... ...
Linus: okay show me
Tech: Are you sure sir?
Linus: yes
Tech: here goes
Linus: hahahahaha okay now wheres the real code
Tech: that's it sir
Linus: This is QBasic
Tech: well no one else seemed to care...
Linus: first line is REM Hehehehehe stupid people
And when it's all said and done everyone can have some Distributed Open Cookies and Milk. They can call it project DOCM and link it to www.docm.org. And when it's all said and done they can keep the clients going by trying to prove OJ guilty. But not before both a Mac and Linux port are made.
The whole thing can be set up as a client to search for aliens. Everyone will buy it. Such silly people ...
As for MS they really don't seem to be hurting much ... 567 billion dollars and the second most valuable company in the world. I don't know about you, but I think 1 billion could pretty much set me up for the rest of my life fairly well. But this has been absolutely great for Linux and other operating systems. RedHat especially knew how to play off the situation. There were a number of Linux IPO's and even better I saw more drivers start to come out for hardware in linux. Maybe it's all just coincidence ... but I doubt it.
Okay so lets look at this practically ... A stove that stores receipes. That doesn't mean you'll cook it right or that you'll have all the ingredients you need. And who really wants to surf the net while washing dishes.
Okay what will make the net will be set standards of audio and video. Instead of having to compete with real media, ms media, mpeg, or any other type of media. Once an open set standard is made you'll be able to listen to the toaster play www.Ihearlotsofstandardizedmusicandevenmoreads.com while you're waiting for your eggo or poptart.
So now we've got set standards for video and audio ... wonderful ... now we have to battle for platforms. GREAT ... there's the linux toaster the MS toaster and even better the toaster toaster ... but open source fans will like the linux toaster no matter what ... even if toaster toaster releases the source. Everyone else will love MS toaster for it's ease of use and prettiness.
So do we really need new toasters ... because I'm happy with my poptart right now like it is...
So where's my RadIo from philips? :-) ... TiVo made it possible to watch prerecorded televisions shows without being able to view the commercials. And funny ... I bet FOX didn't loose any money because of it. People who like music don't want to waste gobs of harddrive space in order to hear a song over and over and over and over again. It's the kids who hear a song on the radio with all thos annoying ads that make napster flourish.
So who's the victim? Not that it really matters, but it's not the music industry. No matter how much the RIAA loses NEGATIVE dollars or how many extremely horrible teeny popper bands go into the pages of "Have beens" the music industry will still make money because people want to listen to the CD and not some CD-R thing with sharpie marker over the top of it.
So some advice. hey Music Industry and RIAA ... shut up get back into your expensive cars and your expensive suits and leave the computer world alone because the "digital vandal age" is what got you that nice car and new suit. I'll sit here in my t-shirt with a collection of CD's.
Evils of mp3's ... sheesh...
really starts to get to you after a while doesn't it?
Now imagine what that computer could do. Could decode genomes, could crack codes, could find the largest prime number, could discover the smallest form of measurement, could map out the entire universe, or could even cure the most deadly diseases.
There's the practical uses. Now let's look at the quantum theory. Remember the "Time travel theory". Recently reading the book Timeline by Michael Crichton I was introduced more indepth into the thereom itself. It deals wiuth the fact that time doesn't exist, but an infinite number of realities or instances exist. Thus not making timetravel possible, but dimension jumps possible. Thus making reality no longer defined, but confused.
So now what do we consider. Who's hands this technology will get into. This would be the ultimate code breaker along with the ultimate weapon. Imagine one person being able to change all of history or to be able to get into any computer they want to. The world itself would become a non-existant entity.
Here's where we get the funding. First off we make the mission GPL. Then we take all the command protocols and run them from Linux. We'll use a whole bunch of Alphas and just stack them together and then we'll get RedHat to be a sponsor for it. So now we've got Compaq and RedHat as sponsors. Now let's get AT&T to provide the communications for it. Hmmm then we need to televise it. And who better to televise something that is "out of this world" than Fox networks. Then of course we could have people pay $10K to have their name engraved on the side in extremely small letters. So now we have the whole Linux community behind it. Simpsons fans behind it. Long distance callers behind it. Simple computer users. And rich people with way too much money. And what's best ... NASA. Then of course we'd have to make sure NASA promised not to intentionally crash it so we could see how big of a cloud it would make. (though we all know the scientists had a poll going).
So what good would this serve for the rest of the world? Okay so backbones could be instantly connected throughout the world. We'd see less seek time. Maybe even be able to sync DNS entries faster. But the cost of this alone would be huge. And what happens when a squirrel decides to knaw a lil hole in the fiber? You just lost a heap of bandwidth right there. Fiber is great, but it's also fragile. You need to insulate and pad it quite a bit to make it worthwhile. And considering we still rely on satellite for most international networking I don't see this helping any of us for at least another 5 - 10 years.
Okay ... AOL owns alot of our media ... 24 million people use their online services. How much longer will we accept AOL as a dictator among us? I personally can't stand knowing that the news I watch or the magazines I read will be censored to AOL's standards. The music age, media age, and internet will all be changed because we're going to let it. I believe it's about time to start an AOL boycott ... this is getting out of hand.
The one thing I like about your company and your site is that you sell the CD's, but you also offer ISO's to anyone who wants to download the CD's themselves. This shows that you're in it to promote Slack and FreeBSD more so than to be in it for just the money. So with that gesture alone I do plan on buying the Slack 7 CD set even though I know I can download the install ISO and grab all the utilities online.
Ohh yeah ... and 2 new cars ... stupid me I left them too close to the curb ... the garbage people must of just picked them up by accident.
I hate this where domains are registered in hopes that they'll sell for big money some day. There's people who pride themselves on stealing these domains. Or mistype domains like www.slasdit.org that take you to some kind of nudie site. Now I see why this would be profitable, but how can it not be a trademark viloation?
As for them teaming up with linux that's great maybe they could make they're own specific drivers even though the NE2000 driver works just fine for both the D-Link and the Linksys.
Since Turbo comes packaged with Samba this should be a win win situation. Home network with a good network and a great operating system
As I've posted before I wonder how many people who buy these 1ghz machines will actually use them to there full potential. I personally would be pumping out all kinds of distributed programs and would definantelly consider NOT using windows.
BTW how many of these 1ghz Athalons can you stack together. Or do they have to stand alone... because I've yet to see a dual athalon box.
Now atari released the jag and I was really impressed, but it uses cartridges (I do believe there's a CD Ad-on) which make it limited. The reason I don't know too much about it would have to be the key fact that it's not popular. I'm sure people have one, but not as many as Dreamcasts, N64, and PlayStations. And with the release of PS2 comming out I don't know how much more time Atari actually has.
Did everyone forget about the Black Box that Microsoft is coming out with. Or the fact that PS2 can browse the web and play DVD's ... heck PS2 might even bring competition to WebTV and standard DVD players along with companies like Atari.
And a special thanks to all the lamers who managed to make this forum look all that more childish. Nice maturity guys.