Four radios, talking to six people, a co-pilot, maps, weapons systems, mast mounted sight, scanning for other aircraft, while on a screenline looking for bad guys, setting up relief on station and tracking the movements of everybody.
This is one place that can make a buck with Linux. Embedded stuff is required and not having to pay a tax per unit sold is preferable to what has been the way.
So far it's been a bit painful, but an OS as a give away is going to be the way to go. Hardware and service all the way.
Should be taken to the nearest school and donated. It doesn't matter if you can take it as a tax deduction (usually can) but even some of the more monied school systems can figure out a use or a home for them.
They may not be the latest on the block and you may not want something two years old, but the kids sure can use them.
That has been the Achilles heel of Netscape for a while on Linux now, even with the plugins from SUN. I liked Mozilla before but it was SLOW and I can deal with a killall netscape or three a day if it's faster than what mozilla has to offer.
Unfortunately power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It would be nice to have someone who guided the open source movement, however it is like the way the US government is heading. People want to believe in a benevolent dictator but there is no such thing. The first one may very well put everything on a track that is good for everybody, after that, forget it. There would be no difference between that position and Bill Gates. Yes, market share is important, but no it's not the end all and be all of software. After it becomes self-sustaining the focus should be on 'where do we go now?' and that's where most leaders screw up.
So, all those people who have donated their time, money and bodies to science knowing full well they will never get a dime for it, are okay but this person seems to require compensation?
Whatever happened to 'for the greater good' that the left keeps telling us about? Oh, that's only when they want to take rights away from 'the people.' I forgot.
I would not be surprised to find this out at all. I was talking about Joe Average using both systems. The Sun systems are made with SCSI and have a bus that tends to take things faster than Intel clone stuff. To me, as a SysAdmin and to my end-users, why doesn't matter near as much as the fact that it does work faster.
My comment was on clock speed and how most people only look at the CPU speed and decide that is how fast the machine works without taking into account the different architectures as a whole into account, as it seems the writer ofthe article saw '900 Mhz' and used the word 'only' in the write up.
I work with Ultra 10s, 60, and 80s daily. From the normal work, UltraSPARC chips do things about twice the speed of a similarly 'clocked' Pentium chip.
UltraSPARC 450s do things about the same time as Pentium 900s, etc.
These should be screamers. Don't be fooled by the number attached to the chip.
If it doesn't work worth a darn, people already know the name lightsaber from Star Wars and know what one is. The doctors will figure out it's a piece of crap faster than the marketing will and if it doesn't work, it'll die quietly. If it does work, though, it's not going to damage anything name-wise, but will equate light sabers with life saving devices.
That does make sense. One of the problems that a lot of companies who try to make things easier for the user start at the easiest fixes. Unfortunately, they will probably not make money in the *NIX field at all if they stay at the minimum. Most of the people using a *NIX based system have already graduated from 'how do I turn off remote access' and the ones just learning also learn fast that the newsgroups will help them out faster, cheaper, and with a more complete solution than places like zero knowledge.
With all the cut backs in the tech industry, it doesn't pay for smaller companies to support more than one OS. Do the math, if you have enough people to only support one, which one will bring the most clients?
On the more paranoid note, could it be possible for them to have received a 'consulting fee' to only support WIN based products?
They've already introduced the idea that it CAN be done, people will become numb to the idea. After a couple more outrageous incidents of invasion of privacy, the feds will then institute a 'reasonable' searching technique.
After the people are used to these extreme measures, the 'reasonable' ones will seem mild and unobtrusive in comparison. The only problem is they would bring immediate picketing and demonstrations 10 years ago, but today's society is so used to having no backing for the constitution that they're used to flat out ignoring it for the most part and accepting what is told them by the news that it may not even be looked at crosseyed.
IINAL, but I believe if you could show that you had legitimate reason to believe what you printed, NOT that the voices in your head told you, rather sources that were in a position to know told you or gave evidence that led you to that conclusion, you would still be covered.
If that were not the case, no newspaper would survive.
Now, just a little while ago we had an article about the use of an asteroid as an offensive weapon. The article went on to describe how they could maneuver it to hit the Earth and obliterate the country's enemys. Today we have one on how to get the asteroid to avoid Earth.
Couldn't someone put the two together and instead of redirecting it to HIT, maybe how to redirect it to MISS? or is that asking too much.
Case of what is following what people think. People hear of DSL companies falling right and left and don't want to sign up for it, thus causing the gain to be smaller and causing more companies to fail...
Cable does not have that particular problem. Cable DOES, however, require that you share bandwidth with your neighbour and that will cause people to get fed up and look at DSL for a change.
He finally figured out what is important. Yes, driven people tend to get things done, but a lot of them forget they have families and loved one and forget to spend time with them when available. LinuxPPC will continue and has a hell of a jump start thanks largely, if not entirely on Haas. Now he can get the rest of the college done and dabble in PPC AND have time for the important things in life, family and friends.
Sometimes people forget that the really important things in life are their family and get focused on things that will continue after they are gone.
For some of us, it took deployments and a war to figure that out. I'm glad he does have the time and chance to get to that conclusion.
U.S. Gov't wants to ban everything, encryption-wise, that they do not have a back door for. The MPAA, RIAA, LMNOPA, et al want to ban encryption of which THEY don't have back doors to. Seems Joe User is just about screwed no matter which way it goes. The Federal Gov't will just not allow them to BE an ISP or the TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms, four this time) will SUE them until they give in or go broke, whichever is fine with them.
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Four radios, talking to six people, a co-pilot, maps, weapons systems, mast mounted sight, scanning for other aircraft, while on a screenline looking for bad guys, setting up relief on station and tracking the movements of everybody.
Multi-tasking? What's that?
DanH
This is one place that can make a buck with Linux. Embedded stuff is required and not having to pay a tax per unit sold is preferable to what has been the way.
So far it's been a bit painful, but an OS as a give away is going to be the way to go. Hardware and service all the way.
DanH
Should be taken to the nearest school and donated. It doesn't matter if you can take it as a tax deduction (usually can) but even some of the more monied school systems can figure out a use or a home for them.
They may not be the latest on the block and you may not want something two years old, but the kids sure can use them.
DanH
It says I have too many teeth to play a banjo, whatever could that mean?
DanH
That has been the Achilles heel of Netscape for a while on Linux now, even with the plugins from SUN. I liked Mozilla before but it was SLOW and I can deal with a killall netscape or three a day if it's faster than what mozilla has to offer.
Off to try it.
DanH
Unfortunately power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It would be nice to have someone who guided the open source movement, however it is like the way the US government is heading. People want to believe in a benevolent dictator but there is no such thing. The first one may very well put everything on a track that is good for everybody, after that, forget it. There would be no difference between that position and Bill Gates. Yes, market share is important, but no it's not the end all and be all of software. After it becomes self-sustaining the focus should be on 'where do we go now?' and that's where most leaders screw up.
DanH
I am more and more glad I turned to Speakeasy Network. They are Linux/BSD/Mac friendly and they have done me right from day one.
DanH
So, all those people who have donated their time, money and bodies to science knowing full well they will never get a dime for it, are okay but this person seems to require compensation?
Whatever happened to 'for the greater good' that the left keeps telling us about? Oh, that's only when they want to take rights away from 'the people.' I forgot.
DanH
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To 'knowingly disrupt computer network' traffic or similar if it's not your own network?
Why do they make laws for acts that already are illegal?
Breaking and entering works for computers too.
DanH
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This book has just such a set of questions for a UNIX SysAdmin candidate.
For WIN based systems, "How do you reboot?" usually is enough.
DanH
I would not be surprised to find this out at all. I was talking about Joe Average using both systems. The Sun systems are made with SCSI and have a bus that tends to take things faster than Intel clone stuff. To me, as a SysAdmin and to my end-users, why doesn't matter near as much as the fact that it does work faster.
My comment was on clock speed and how most people only look at the CPU speed and decide that is how fast the machine works without taking into account the different architectures as a whole into account, as it seems the writer ofthe article saw '900 Mhz' and used the word 'only' in the write up.
DanH
I work with Ultra 10s, 60, and 80s daily. From the normal work, UltraSPARC chips do things about twice the speed of a similarly 'clocked' Pentium chip.
UltraSPARC 450s do things about the same time as Pentium 900s, etc.
These should be screamers. Don't be fooled by the number attached to the chip.
DanH
Maybe we'll get to see some honest prices for shares for service and support companies instead of the feeding frenzy of the past couple years.
On the other hand, those of us who bought before last January still have a positive numbered return from our portfolio.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Silly!
If it doesn't work worth a darn, people already know the name lightsaber from Star Wars and know what one is. The doctors will figure out it's a piece of crap faster than the marketing will and if it doesn't work, it'll die quietly. If it does work, though, it's not going to damage anything name-wise, but will equate light sabers with life saving devices.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
That does make sense. One of the problems that a lot of companies who try to make things easier for the user start at the easiest fixes. Unfortunately, they will probably not make money in the *NIX field at all if they stay at the minimum. Most of the people using a *NIX based system have already graduated from 'how do I turn off remote access' and the ones just learning also learn fast that the newsgroups will help them out faster, cheaper, and with a more complete solution than places like zero knowledge.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
With all the cut backs in the tech industry, it doesn't pay for smaller companies to support more than one OS. Do the math, if you have enough people to only support one, which one will bring the most clients?
On the more paranoid note, could it be possible for them to have received a 'consulting fee' to only support WIN based products?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
"The only one who agrees with me is the blood sucking Lawyer"
Well, it seems that lawyers CAN be good guys. They're still to be regarded with suspicion, though.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
They've already introduced the idea that it CAN be done, people will become numb to the idea. After a couple more outrageous incidents of invasion of privacy, the feds will then institute a 'reasonable' searching technique.
After the people are used to these extreme measures, the 'reasonable' ones will seem mild and unobtrusive in comparison. The only problem is they would bring immediate picketing and demonstrations 10 years ago, but today's society is so used to having no backing for the constitution that they're used to flat out ignoring it for the most part and accepting what is told them by the news that it may not even be looked at crosseyed.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
IINAL, but I believe if you could show that you had legitimate reason to believe what you printed, NOT that the voices in your head told you, rather sources that were in a position to know told you or gave evidence that led you to that conclusion, you would still be covered.
If that were not the case, no newspaper would survive.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
You mean it won't have the full kernel and any of the software available in the distros?
It's not worth reading if that's how it's presented. Do you mean a stripped down distro using the Linux kernel?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Now, just a little while ago we had an article about the use of an asteroid as an offensive weapon. The article went on to describe how they could maneuver it to hit the Earth and obliterate the country's enemys. Today we have one on how to get the asteroid to avoid Earth.
Couldn't someone put the two together and instead of redirecting it to HIT, maybe how to redirect it to MISS? or is that asking too much.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Papers use that all the time. The very fact that they deny it makes it all that much more plausable. right?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Case of what is following what people think. People hear of DSL companies falling right and left and don't want to sign up for it, thus causing the gain to be smaller and causing more companies to fail...
Cable does not have that particular problem. Cable DOES, however, require that you share bandwidth with your neighbour and that will cause people to get fed up and look at DSL for a change.
Should even out in a couple years.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
He finally figured out what is important. Yes, driven people tend to get things done, but a lot of them forget they have families and loved one and forget to spend time with them when available. LinuxPPC will continue and has a hell of a jump start thanks largely, if not entirely on Haas. Now he can get the rest of the college done and dabble in PPC AND have time for the important things in life, family and friends.
Sometimes people forget that the really important things in life are their family and get focused on things that will continue after they are gone.
For some of us, it took deployments and a war to figure that out. I'm glad he does have the time and chance to get to that conclusion.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
U.S. Gov't wants to ban everything, encryption-wise, that they do not have a back door for. The MPAA, RIAA, LMNOPA, et al want to ban encryption of which THEY don't have back doors to. Seems Joe User is just about screwed no matter which way it goes. The Federal Gov't will just not allow them to BE an ISP or the TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms, four this time) will SUE them until they give in or go broke, whichever is fine with them.
Just say no to back door mandates.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page