You little Anonymouse Cowardly troll you. How the hell would you know how smart I am, your a moron if you you think that a GS-11 gets 20 hours for examing a single application. They get much less than that. What BS are you talking about?
Anyone who has been runing Linux for more than a year and has been tuned in into slashdot for a while has known that Linux is unifying UNIX. This is a good thing. Hopefully it will bring vendors back to UNIX, and there will be more hardware drivers and open specs for UNIX and its flavors. If the NIX flavors continue to stive for standards and if Microsoft also pushes for standards (there is an article of Microsoft using XML for interapplication operability in school apps that may be an open standard). It may be possible that Microsofts stronghold on the OS will go down. They may never disapear.
Remeber IBM used to be the big chip maker many years ago, and now it is Intel and AMD is giving them a run for there money. It could happen to Microsoft too.
Incidentaly I use Redhat they are not the best, but I find them to be "almost" a standard in Linux. Many (not all) distro's use rpm and there are some other reasone that I think this but I am entitled to my opinion even if you do not agree with it!
Every time I see one of these realizations of what a patent examiner goes through I think of all my posts telling about this.
I was a patent examiner, and hated it. Yeah it is great to see the new tech that is in dev, but there s no time to savor anything. I should mention that the amount of time that you have to work on your applications goes down as you go up in grade and get promoted. When I was a GS7 I had about 16 hours per application, and when I got promoted to GS9 I had about 12 to 14. I know that some people there were happy about remaining a particular grade as that was all they could handle.
The USPTO is one of the few goverment agencies that has quotas, that are that strict. They are also one of the few that actually make a profit, like the post office. Your taxes do not pay for a patent examiners income, it is payed through the patent application fees and patent maintenance fees. It can cost one thousands to get a patent.
I personally think that the only solution is to privitize the USPTO and make it gov regulated. One of the current problems they have is that they do not have enough examiners and Billy Clinton boy decidede that he would take money from teh USPTO to help balance the budget. Several millions of dollars that could have gone back into the USPTO to better train some of there examiners.
One last thing. Some of the examiners do a search if they find something great if they do not they allow it and figure that they can get soreted out in court. It is a screwed up system that desperately needs repair.
For notation I use Rosegarden, then to listen there is timidity, kmidi, kmid, and I am sure are more. There is plugger as a plugin for midi and several other resources. So far I have not seen anything as grand as cakewalk, but I have not used cakewalk either so I do not know.
There is also jazz which recently became open source. Try http://www.jazzware.com/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/jazzware/ for jazz and see if it suites your needs. Between Rosegarden and Jazz I think you will find a good package.
So far it looks like another specialized portal. I am looking forward to embeded devices running Linux. I have thought about some of the current devices that can run Linux, but I think that I'd prefer one that came with Linux preinstalled. I tried there little search and it looks okay. With places like Linuxtoday, linux.com, slashdot, and all the other Linux portals out there I wonder how much traffic they will actually do. I hope they do well.
Some of the articles I have seen her on/., or linuxtoday.
I wish that they had more information on the boards and devices themselves. I am looking for small solutions. I'd love to have a few small computers on my desk each running a different OS. It really only is a new portal.
I have found some interesting things on there site though that may actually seperate them from the rest. They actually show hardware for embedded devices. I will definately be looking into this for my tiny devices needs.
I guess for those of us who don't want to make that move just yet, we can have our 404 document, say, "Sorry I am just a dumb server and don't know where the page has gone." Come back later when I get smarter.
There are 2 things that I know about. One is the curvy keyboards. This is standard issue at the company that I work for. They did a study and apparently this is a 'good buy'. The second is how you sit at your computer. Your arms should be at 45 degree angles to your desk and your back should be straight. Your monitor should be high enough that you are not looking up or down at it. Hope that helps some. The best thing to do is test and see what works for you. My writs pain has almost gone away, since I started using this curvy keyboard at work that I am thinking of getting one at home.
Although it will probably be closed source, it is still a good thing. RealPlayer is a neat way to see movies on the web. I know from my experience that a slower Linux box on a DSL line is better than a faster NT box on the same DSL line. This was tested by me and a friend.** I think that real 7 on Linux with a nice fast machine and DSL could bring in good frame rates and make watching movies on the web or tv on the web a good experience.
** The test that we did was hook up 2 machines to a hub and that hub was connected to a DSL. The NT machine was a 450PIIMhz with 128 Meg of RAM and the Linux box was a P200MMX with 64Meg of ram. In testing the line speed, the Linux box had 63k uploads / 491k downloads and the NT box had 53k uploads / 423k downloads. So Linux was faster on a slower box. Don't take my word, test this at home yourself and you be the judge. This is not something I care to argue, it is what I experienced. Part of the problem I should state is that this is pppoe, and NT4 does not have good support for this.(AFAIK).
My experience with Linux vs Win NT/95/98 is that Linux 2.2.14 and Redhat 6.1 is actually more stable as a client. My roommate's win 95 machine is always crashing. My father upgraded to Win 98 and now Outlook and IE do not work (go figure). I have NT on my Linux box, and it always crashes when I add new hardware. The MIS department where I work wont support a windows machine that is not rebooted daily. This is my experience, so yours may differ.
In a choice in spending 289 for Windows ro $29 for Redhat, I'll take Redhat (especially there 1.89 cdrom's.)
Don't be lame and single out one sentance of this take it as a whole and as 3 peoples experiences with windows and Linux....
It is interesting that they chose to build on top of gnome. I guess the fact that if they decide to sell there stuff and it was based on kde there could be potential qt license issues. Yes qt 2.0 is supposed to be more open source-ish, but I think that a commercial entity would still have to have some license to sell there product. GNOME does not come with that kind of baggage. GNOME is also in C (AFAIK), so I wonder if they have C++ wrappers for it. (or do they already). My guess is that someone sees holes in the GNOME UI and they want to fill them. I have noticed that there are things that linuxconf do not do, that would be nice for sys admin. I still find myself editing many of my config files. There is no FE to hdparm, and modprobe.
I do know that Linux has come a long way in the years that I have been using it and much of what I used to have to do by hand is now automagically done (ethernet was easy as is ppp). I look forward to the coming years and seeing the progression. I think that the more companies that get involved with Linux will be good for Linux. I already see more driver for Linux and support of some kind from hardware manufactures, the next thing I'd love to see is shockwave support, yes I have flash, but I want shockwave too. It would also be nice to see stuff apearing on Linux first and windows second. I hope I hope.
I always have to laugh when my friends using windows have problems, and my Linux box is rock solid.........
..connected.. I have a dial up and do not spend that much time on the internet... so my machine is virtually standalone... I will say this about 6.1 after recovering my system and getting the updates applies (there were alot!) It is nice to have xdm running and apache modules running again.. time to get some php3 going on my box.. for my 'mine' lan user.
Yes and as bandwidth increases and more people download, companies like redhat can offer auto update of embedded systems. Imagine a device running Linux as a web appliance. Imagine you never have to upgrade it cause it can upgrade itself and restart itself when you are not using it. Windows still cannot do that even with NT 2000 or whatever tehy call it, you must still be there to upgrade. Linux you can create upgrade scripts as so many companies do and install scripts so you can have unattended installs. NT still canot do that and probably never will. Peoplw will still buy from Redhat when they want support (or another company).
Well not really. I looked at the arricle and did not see if it ran Linux. For me personally I have had enough of windows so it woudl need to come with Linux preinstalled before I bought it.
Realize though that where I work I was informed that they woudl not support a windows machine that was not rebooted daily, nor do they support any applications that were not installed on the machine by them. Unfortuanately where I work I sometimes need to install software like Exceeed to connect to all or UNIX systems, and often other software to make my life easier. I'd install Linux if I di dnot have to use IE 5 at times.
I heard on tv this morning that they had found the malitious code, that the hacker/cracker used. Therefore M$ is wrong or whomever is accusing Linux and Solaris. Solaris is also not open source. I am sure all patches that go into there software are checked, as I am sure that Linus && Alan do not let malitious code into the kernel.
I think that it is only a matter of time that Linux can overtake NT. Not to be a Linux zealot or anything, but the fact that Linux is less expensive it can be a better way to go. The only time I have to fiddle with my Linux system is when I ad new hardware, or upgrade kernel oir a distro upgrade. Though I am working on changing that with some upgrade scripts to automate that.
I keep seeing signe all over the place saying "Windows 2000 is coming, to set a new standard in reliability." Something like that at least. I guess they don't know the reliability that a UNIX box has. Not just Linux, but Solaris, and AIX and FreeBSD. What is this new standard in reliability that Windows 2000 is going to set?
It seems that few people understood my point, but I think that you did. They seem to have changed to much, since 6.0 to 6.1. It scares me. My next upgrade is going to be from my own custom scripts. I'll be working on them now, so that I do not have to go through the hastle of testing there upgrades.
This was actually kind of interesting. It has been a while since I read an article that interested me like this. What I found to be most interesting though was that it suggests that even though there is a dominate company in the market now, 'natural' selection can make a better design come out on top. This is assuming that AMD delivers what it is developing with 1.2Ghz CPU's.
I guess that when another OS comes out that can do what M$ does and ALSO allows people to run there legacy M$ programs it will take the dominate place in the market if it is better.
Please don't tell me about wine and linux and vmware, cause they do not completely fit the bill. Wine suffers from the fact that it cannot run all of M$ products and results usually vary from user to user to much at this time. Maybe when corel's changes get in there it may make a difference, but not enought to make people switch.
Yes I also know that there are substitutions for Word and Office, but flat out some people just have to run word, or just want to run word cause there is some feature in M$ product that they like .
As far as vmware goes, when I tried it my cdrom started going to crap. They write there own driver for the system (under Linux atleast). I had other problems with upgrades to vmware not working and not letting me install new programs in a vmware sessions. It also does not handle all the hardware that it should. They need to write a proper program (IMHO) that does not make the kernel modules that it makes. There is already a cdrom driver why reinvent the wheel, so they can do what they want with the cdrom?
I'll look forward to seeing if Netscape can make a comeback with Netscape 5.0......
yes I have heard of xhost+ and xhost-. The point is that they changed my system configureation and I had to reconfigure a whole bunch of things.
I do have backups and I have been using Linux for many years myself. The fact that there installation did not ask me if I wanted to install lilo really pissed me off. If I did not know what I was doing I would not have just booted my system and done lilo -U to restore my nt boot and then reconfigure my system. My system is firewalled so I do not care about xhost+ enableing access to my system, becuase the port is closed to ALL except:0.0
The issue is that Redhat's distro assumed that I wanted things there way, and did not let me do it my way, and thus I have to reconfigure a server now that causes downtime which if I were a buisiness it can cost money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I upgraded last night from Redhat 6.0 to 6.1 and I ran there expert mode. Usually the expert mode lets one do more. Well this did not! It also installed lilo which is something I did not want to do since I use the NT bootloader on my dual boot machine. If it had recognized or warned me about the installation of lilo it would have been one thing, but it assumed I was a "know nothing about linux person" (newbie) and I am NOT. It also blew away my apache configuration and also changed permissions on my 'dev/ttyS2'. It really hosed my system up. If it were not for the fact that I have gained som much knowledge about administering and troubleshooting Linux systems, I'd be suing Redhat for pulling the same shit as Microsoft!
It also has done something to X windows now. I usually am able to su - to root in an xterm and then export DISPLAY=:0.0. and run certain programs as root in X. Now I get xlib connection refused. I'M ROOT!!! How the hell can you refuse me a connection??????
My next letter of complaint is going straight to them to let them know that I extremely disappointed in this release. They are becomming just like so many of the other crap companies that are selling Linux distros. They care less and less about the seasoned user and more and more about the newbie. While it is great that they care about the newbie, but they need to realize that when they hoze up someones system that they can really piss people off. Like ME!
I upgraded last night from Redhat 6.0 to 6.1 and I ran there expert mode. Usually the expert mode lets one do more. Well this did not! It also installed lilo which is something I did not want to do since I use the NT bootloader on my dual boot machine. If it had recognized or warned me about the installation of lilo it would have been one thing, but it assumed I was a "know nothing about linux person" (newbie) and I am NOT. It also blew away my apache configuration and also changed permissions on my 'dev/ttyS2'. It really hosed my system up. If it were not for the fact that I have gained som much knowledge about administering and troubleshooting Linux systems, I'd be suing Redhat for pulling the same shit as Microsoft!
It also has done something to X windows now. I usually am able to su - to root in an xterm and then export DISPLAY=:0.0. and run certain programs as root in X. Now I get xlib connection refused. I'M ROOT!!! How the hell can you refuse me a connection??????
My next letter of complaint is going straight to them to let them know that I extremely disappointed in this release. They are becomming just like so many of the other crap companies that are selling Linux distros. They care less and less about the seasoned user and more and more about the newbie. While it is great that they care about the newbie, but they need to realize that when they hoze up someones system that they can really piss people off. Like ME!
It would be interesting to see a Mac OS running on an intel chip like the upcoming IA64. Especially if it ran all the MS products that Mac currently does. Can you imagine what would happen to windows? I'd be intereseted in a Mac port to other processors, I think that would make thie indulstry rather interesting again. I'd also like to see Darwin and how it would perform on Intel against other OSes like Windows, Solaris, and Linux on the intel platform.
It woudl be even more interesting to see Mac on a Sparc chip or an 1000Mhz Alpha. Now that would be speed in style. Think of the graphic capabilities that would have.
Sorry, but when I refered to netscape I was referring to Mozilla as Mozilla is the OS version of Netscape. Yes it is true that Netscape use Motif, but Mozilla does use gtk, and Mozilla is slotted to be Netscape 5.0 so Netscape == Mozilla...
They had a version of netshow once before, it should not be too difficult. I think that they should release all there products on Linux and do it intelligentlly. I think less people would care about there Application dominance if their applications ran on multiple OS's and they did not have an OS dominance too. I'd love to see IE for Linux as well as word. I'd never have to use windows...
They had a version of netshow once before, it should not be too difficult. I think that they should release all there products on Linux and do it intelligentlly. I think less people would care about there Application dominance if their applications ran on multiple OS's and they did not have an OS dominance too.
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Remeber IBM used to be the big chip maker many years ago, and now it is Intel and AMD is giving them a run for there money. It could happen to Microsoft too.
Incidentaly I use Redhat they are not the best, but I find them to be "almost" a standard in Linux. Many (not all) distro's use rpm and there are some other reasone that I think this but I am entitled to my opinion even if you do not agree with it!
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I was a patent examiner, and hated it. Yeah it is great to see the new tech that is in dev, but there s no time to savor anything. I should mention that the amount of time that you have to work on your applications goes down as you go up in grade and get promoted. When I was a GS7 I had about 16 hours per application, and when I got promoted to GS9 I had about 12 to 14. I know that some people there were happy about remaining a particular grade as that was all they could handle.
The USPTO is one of the few goverment agencies that has quotas, that are that strict. They are also one of the few that actually make a profit, like the post office. Your taxes do not pay for a patent examiners income, it is payed through the patent application fees and patent maintenance fees. It can cost one thousands to get a patent.
I personally think that the only solution is to privitize the USPTO and make it gov regulated. One of the current problems they have is that they do not have enough examiners and Billy Clinton boy decidede that he would take money from teh USPTO to help balance the budget. Several millions of dollars that could have gone back into the USPTO to better train some of there examiners.
One last thing. Some of the examiners do a search if they find something great if they do not they allow it and figure that they can get soreted out in court. It is a screwed up system that desperately needs repair.
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For notation I use Rosegarden, then to listen there is timidity, kmidi, kmid, and I am sure are more. There is plugger as a plugin for midi and several other resources. So far I have not seen anything as grand as cakewalk, but I have not used cakewalk either so I do not know.
There is also jazz which recently became open source. Try http://www.jazzware.com/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/jazzware/ for jazz and see if it suites your needs. Between Rosegarden and Jazz I think you will find a good package.
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Some of the articles I have seen her on /., or linuxtoday.
I wish that they had more information on the boards and devices themselves. I am looking for small solutions. I'd love to have a few small computers on my desk each running a different OS. It really only is a new portal.
I have found some interesting things on there site though that may actually seperate them from the rest. They actually show hardware for embedded devices. I will definately be looking into this for my tiny devices needs.
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** The test that we did was hook up 2 machines to a hub and that hub was connected to a DSL. The NT machine was a 450PIIMhz with 128 Meg of RAM and the Linux box was a P200MMX with 64Meg of ram. In testing the line speed, the Linux box had 63k uploads / 491k downloads and the NT box had 53k uploads / 423k downloads. So Linux was faster on a slower box. Don't take my word, test this at home yourself and you be the judge. This is not something I care to argue, it is what I experienced. Part of the problem I should state is that this is pppoe, and NT4 does not have good support for this.(AFAIK).
My experience with Linux vs Win NT/95/98 is that Linux 2.2.14 and Redhat 6.1 is actually more stable as a client. My roommate's win 95 machine is always crashing. My father upgraded to Win 98 and now Outlook and IE do not work (go figure). I have NT on my Linux box, and it always crashes when I add new hardware. The MIS department where I work wont support a windows machine that is not rebooted daily. This is my experience, so yours may differ.
In a choice in spending 289 for Windows ro $29 for Redhat, I'll take Redhat (especially there 1.89 cdrom's.)
Don't be lame and single out one sentance of this take it as a whole and as 3 peoples experiences with windows and Linux....
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I do know that Linux has come a long way in the years that I have been using it and much of what I used to have to do by hand is now automagically done (ethernet was easy as is ppp). I look forward to the coming years and seeing the progression. I think that the more companies that get involved with Linux will be good for Linux. I already see more driver for Linux and support of some kind from hardware manufactures, the next thing I'd love to see is shockwave support, yes I have flash, but I want shockwave too. It would also be nice to see stuff apearing on Linux first and windows second. I hope I hope.
I always have to laugh when my friends using windows have problems, and my Linux box is rock solid.........
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Realize though that where I work I was informed that they woudl not support a windows machine that was not rebooted daily, nor do they support any applications that were not installed on the machine by them. Unfortuanately where I work I sometimes need to install software like Exceeed to connect to all or UNIX systems, and often other software to make my life easier. I'd install Linux if I di dnot have to use IE 5 at times.
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I keep seeing signe all over the place saying "Windows 2000 is coming, to set a new standard in reliability." Something like that at least. I guess they don't know the reliability that a UNIX box has. Not just Linux, but Solaris, and AIX and FreeBSD. What is this new standard in reliability that Windows 2000 is going to set?
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I guess that when another OS comes out that can do what M$ does and ALSO allows people to run there legacy M$ programs it will take the dominate place in the market if it is better.
Please don't tell me about wine and linux and vmware, cause they do not completely fit the bill. Wine suffers from the fact that it cannot run all of M$ products and results usually vary from user to user to much at this time. Maybe when corel's changes get in there it may make a difference, but not enought to make people switch.
Yes I also know that there are substitutions for Word and Office, but flat out some people just have to run word, or just want to run word cause there is some feature in M$ product that they like .
As far as vmware goes, when I tried it my cdrom started going to crap. They write there own driver for the system (under Linux atleast). I had other problems with upgrades to vmware not working and not letting me install new programs in a vmware sessions. It also does not handle all the hardware that it should. They need to write a proper program (IMHO) that does not make the kernel modules that it makes. There is already a cdrom driver why reinvent the wheel, so they can do what they want with the cdrom?
I'll look forward to seeing if Netscape can make a comeback with Netscape 5.0......
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I do have backups and I have been using Linux for many years myself. The fact that there installation did not ask me if I wanted to install lilo really pissed me off. If I did not know what I was doing I would not have just booted my system and done lilo -U to restore my nt boot and then reconfigure my system. My system is firewalled so I do not care about xhost+ enableing access to my system, becuase the port is closed to ALL except :0.0
The issue is that Redhat's distro assumed that I wanted things there way, and did not let me do it my way, and thus I have to reconfigure a server now that causes downtime which if I were a buisiness it can cost money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It also has done something to X windows now. I usually am able to su - to root in an xterm and then export DISPLAY=:0.0. and run certain programs as root in X. Now I get xlib connection refused. I'M ROOT!!! How the hell can you refuse me a connection??????
My next letter of complaint is going straight to them to let them know that I extremely disappointed in this release. They are becomming just like so many of the other crap companies that are selling Linux distros. They care less and less about the seasoned user and more and more about the newbie. While it is great that they care about the newbie, but they need to realize that when they hoze up someones system that they can really piss people off. Like ME!
signed one dissatisfied Redhat 6.1 customer.
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It also has done something to X windows now. I usually am able to su - to root in an xterm and then export DISPLAY=:0.0. and run certain programs as root in X. Now I get xlib connection refused. I'M ROOT!!! How the hell can you refuse me a connection??????
My next letter of complaint is going straight to them to let them know that I extremely disappointed in this release. They are becomming just like so many of the other crap companies that are selling Linux distros. They care less and less about the seasoned user and more and more about the newbie. While it is great that they care about the newbie, but they need to realize that when they hoze up someones system that they can really piss people off. Like ME!
signed one dissatisfied Redhat 6.1 customer.
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It woudl be even more interesting to see Mac on a Sparc chip or an 1000Mhz Alpha. Now that would be speed in style. Think of the graphic capabilities that would have.
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