As the other DSL providers go under I see the Speakeasy network grow. I had requests in for DSL from three providers for over a year, one folding, one just flat out ignoring all new requests and one not able to get the bell company around here to put in a line because you didn't go through the local bell company. I wonder how many of those smaller companies went under because of non-responsiveness of the bell companies?
Speakeasy took less than a month and service has been outstanding for the three months that I've had service.
Uhhh, ohhhh. If they bring this to TV, my toaster may watch it and decide to take out a small country. Just like someone has decided that make believe violence can make kids violence.
Spend quality time with your appliances, people before they see this show and do something they shouldn't.
Apparently some find my new year's eve a bit boring, to the point of making AC comments about 'loser thing to do' and something about my sister.
Well, after spending the number of new year's eves in other countries, away from family, in places you don't speak the language, surrounded by concertina and minefields, I'll tell you that spending it with family talking about inane stuff is about the best new year's eve a person can have.
2001 rocks, I just would like to know what 3010 brings. Maybe we'll even see it.
To the person who apparently did nasty things to my sister as AC, she must be a replicant as I don't have one. I hope you enjoyed it.
Instead of buying new machines with WIN on them, we've started using P200 class machines and putting Linux and *BSD onto them and putting those out to do the work. A lot of time all someone needs is an x-server to do the work and the CPU time is actually on an Ultra 80 or something similar. Do you pay out MS fees, get exceed AND have to get new machines, or do you use what you already have, drop on of the *NIX versions on there and rock with the same or greater stability and a LOT fewer fees upfront. Basically free because you've already written off the machine to be donated etc and the money's long gone for that
I believe it was SP4 that the only thing anyone can tell (where I work anyway) that it did was break Lotus Notes connectivity so you could not run a notes server with that pack installed. Calling MS brought a 'You need to purchase a Server license for that machine.'
Maybe you would rather just allow someone else to hold onto your thesis for a few months while you finish it, but I doubt it. Now you believe that you can put all your intellectual property into the hands of someone else and they will hold it safe and secure for you? They're corporate, the bottom line is the bottom line. This is a great way to get new ideas into the stream without paying top dollar (not anymore but you know what I mean) to hire someone who may take their property somewhere else. And this surprises you?
Thus my comment about Debian. Notice I did not sing RedHat's praises? Note I did not say how wonderful it was?
Maybe that's because RedHat has some of the same problems MS has with production Vs stability.
RedHat shipped 7.0 with a compiler that broke quite a bit. Poor planning and rush to ship, JUST like what this column is about.
Maybe you should not be quite so quick to assume that just because someone likes Linux, they are blind to the drawbacks. Read all of it and not just what you want to.
That is one of the things you get when your product is driven by the market. Upgrade, got to push new product, even if it is not quite ready for market. People will decide they need the newest and latest and upgrade. Sales flat? Push an upgrade. Everybody knows that they have to get service patches so they won't mind if the service patch comes out before the actual release of the product (as in WIN2K) so there is no real PR harm in pushing a product that is not ready for the masses. Debian may be slower to market, but their stuff is darn sure ready to be distributed when it gets there.
On a paranoid note about MS: It makes one wonder whether MS would distribute something knowing darn well it had security holes just to get 'something new' on the market.
That is just a ruse to get the violent kids theory off guns and onto something else.
Maybe if there's a stalemate about the violent movies Vs gun availablility we can get to actually deciding what in the heck is allowing the violence to propogate in kids.
In all honesty, school violence is lower than it has been in decades, violence in general, in the US has been on the decline since about 1993 and both sides, liberal and conservative, know it.
John Ashcroft is about the LEAST of your worries about civil rights. You might want to take on the book banners, the 'the freedom of speech is for anyone who agrees with MY point of view' types within the liberal community and the 'I don't care what it says about the people, ban inanimate objects' types.
Maybe we can get to allowing parents to -er- parent and not require schools and other government bodies to do so.
I read/. in Bosnia regularly. Seems just the thing to remind me what home was and what was important beyond the minefields. It also kept me up to date on what the IT industry was up to.
Solar flares DO play a part in electronics malfunctions. Not near the part that some seem to think and that Hollywood has played up, but a part non-the-less.
Now that computers have minute electronics inside them, I wonder if the flares will affect the computers chips etc.
Radiation screws with electronics, thank goodness for the Van Allen belts around the Earth that shield us from most of it.
Are the islands U.S. property? How do the agents know that e-gold has NOT reported over $5,000? If the details are not there, then they should bust ALL on-line banking firms, whether or not they are FDIC insured or credit union types who do not have a policy of reporting.
I'm sorry, without more information, this piece of news is just flamebait in and of itself.
No, I have not dealt with AutoDesk. My in-laws use AutoCAD and a dozen other similar programs for their tool and die making equipment and I've only had a nodding acquaintance with any of those licensing issues.
I'm a configuration manager and used to Solaris, Rational's Purify, SUN's Workshop, and similar items with rather straight forward licenses and agreements.
I've also taken the liberty to have almost all our desktops moved over to running Linux of some stripe and we have started porting our software to Linux BECAUSE of the license issue. It's an easier license to understand and use as a basis for a software product. Everybody wins, the customer gets a good product as a reduced rate because they don't have to worry about the OS or licensing that, we get the source and can figure out what's screwing with what (if we care to) and put those changes back into the Linux baseline (if they care to put them there) and the only people who are missing the boat are the ones who require a zillion dollars for the licensing fees for any software product that includes their product.
This is one of the reasons we went away from MS desktops. Well, paying three/four times for the same software when you use Ghost to create a desktop does get a bit bothersome as well. Now we don't have to worry about the OS on the desktops, we have x-servers that display all the tools we require for day to day operations and we only pay once for the system no matter how many times we install the OS and no matter what machines it's on.
Oh well, enough rant. Seems something else is worthy of comment on/.
Anyone who has read the news about Virginia Beach Gov't should not find this surprising at all. A company wants to ensure it's licenses are being upheld.
Now, I could get into the idea that MS waited until there was ample evidence that some governments were dependant on it's products before starting this, but that would sound like a Linux zelot.
Still begs the issue, why now? Why did they not start on day one and come down on pirates? Why have there been posts on MS bulletin boards saying that they don't care if you take the OS you use at work home with you to use. Unless they knew this day would come and only now the boom is lowering.
Does this really surprise anyone? Ensure everyone is dependant on it, saturate the market, then suddenly decide to play hardball with licenses. Gee, sounds like a decent business practice, but only works if you're a monopoly.
No, my post was a joke. No, I didn't see the 60 hits for FreeBSD, I was making a comment on some of the more clueless dot-coms and their marketing approaches for the various open source OSs.
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As the other DSL providers go under I see the Speakeasy network grow. I had requests in for DSL from three providers for over a year, one folding, one just flat out ignoring all new requests and one not able to get the bell company around here to put in a line because you didn't go through the local bell company. I wonder how many of those smaller companies went under because of non-responsiveness of the bell companies?
Speakeasy took less than a month and service has been outstanding for the three months that I've had service.
DanH
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Uhhh, ohhhh. If they bring this to TV, my toaster may watch it and decide to take out a small country. Just like someone has decided that make believe violence can make kids violence.
Spend quality time with your appliances, people before they see this show and do something they shouldn't.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Apparently some find my new year's eve a bit boring, to the point of making AC comments about 'loser thing to do' and something about my sister.
Well, after spending the number of new year's eves in other countries, away from family, in places you don't speak the language, surrounded by concertina and minefields, I'll tell you that spending it with family talking about inane stuff is about the best new year's eve a person can have.
2001 rocks, I just would like to know what 3010 brings. Maybe we'll even see it.
To the person who apparently did nasty things to my sister as AC, she must be a replicant as I don't have one. I hope you enjoyed it.
DanH
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Watched 2001, talked about 1984, 2001, and all the other year-based stories.
Waiting for 2010 to see Jupiter.
DanH
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Is get a good book for it, fortunately, there is just the thing you're looking for about four articles down.
This is right after Extreme slug racing.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Instead of buying new machines with WIN on them, we've started using P200 class machines and putting Linux and *BSD onto them and putting those out to do the work. A lot of time all someone needs is an x-server to do the work and the CPU time is actually on an Ultra 80 or something similar. Do you pay out MS fees, get exceed AND have to get new machines, or do you use what you already have, drop on of the *NIX versions on there and rock with the same or greater stability and a LOT fewer fees upfront. Basically free because you've already written off the machine to be donated etc and the money's long gone for that
Recycle, it's the only way.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
I believe it was SP4 that the only thing anyone can tell (where I work anyway) that it did was break Lotus Notes connectivity so you could not run a notes server with that pack installed. Calling MS brought a 'You need to purchase a Server license for that machine.'
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Maybe you would rather just allow someone else to hold onto your thesis for a few months while you finish it, but I doubt it. Now you believe that you can put all your intellectual property into the hands of someone else and they will hold it safe and secure for you? They're corporate, the bottom line is the bottom line. This is a great way to get new ideas into the stream without paying top dollar (not anymore but you know what I mean) to hire someone who may take their property somewhere else. And this surprises you?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Thus my comment about Debian. Notice I did not sing RedHat's praises? Note I did not say how wonderful it was?
Maybe that's because RedHat has some of the same problems MS has with production Vs stability.
RedHat shipped 7.0 with a compiler that broke quite a bit. Poor planning and rush to ship, JUST like what this column is about.
Maybe you should not be quite so quick to assume that just because someone likes Linux, they are blind to the drawbacks. Read all of it and not just what you want to.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
That is one of the things you get when your product is driven by the market. Upgrade, got to push new product, even if it is not quite ready for market. People will decide they need the newest and latest and upgrade. Sales flat? Push an upgrade. Everybody knows that they have to get service patches so they won't mind if the service patch comes out before the actual release of the product (as in WIN2K) so there is no real PR harm in pushing a product that is not ready for the masses. Debian may be slower to market, but their stuff is darn sure ready to be distributed when it gets there.
On a paranoid note about MS: It makes one wonder whether MS would distribute something knowing darn well it had security holes just to get 'something new' on the market.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Come on, what woud YOU do were you in their position?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
"The worker who sent out the e-mail, a middle manager, has had his salary docked"
Excuse me? This person still works for the Austrailian government?
There is something VERY wrong with this picture.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Or does yelling in it's ear and banging it on the table not wake it up and it's nailed to the perch.
DanH
(Happy Apr 1st to you as well.)
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"Ward, don't you think you're being a little hard on the Beaver?"
Geeze, with lines like that it's no wonder there are so many unwed mothers.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
That is just a ruse to get the violent kids theory off guns and onto something else.
Maybe if there's a stalemate about the violent movies Vs gun availablility we can get to actually deciding what in the heck is allowing the violence to propogate in kids.
In all honesty, school violence is lower than it has been in decades, violence in general, in the US has been on the decline since about 1993 and both sides, liberal and conservative, know it.
John Ashcroft is about the LEAST of your worries about civil rights. You might want to take on the book banners, the 'the freedom of speech is for anyone who agrees with MY point of view' types within the liberal community and the 'I don't care what it says about the people, ban inanimate objects' types.
Maybe we can get to allowing parents to -er- parent and not require schools and other government bodies to do so.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
AOLNET will require programs created by AOL as AIM requires?
Will our IRC clients work on DALNet next year? Next 6 months? Or will AOL require you to have AOL software and have an active account on AOL?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
I read /. in Bosnia regularly. Seems just the thing to remind me what home was and what was important beyond the minefields. It also kept me up to date on what the IT industry was up to.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Is this for Geeks or Rednecks?
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Solar flares DO play a part in electronics malfunctions. Not near the part that some seem to think and that Hollywood has played up, but a part non-the-less.
Now that computers have minute electronics inside them, I wonder if the flares will affect the computers chips etc.
Radiation screws with electronics, thank goodness for the Van Allen belts around the Earth that shield us from most of it.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
then this is not a good choice? The software is still buggy and the filesystem is not frozen.
I think I'll wait until there's a Debian version.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Are the islands U.S. property? How do the agents know that e-gold has NOT reported over $5,000? If the details are not there, then they should bust ALL on-line banking firms, whether or not they are FDIC insured or credit union types who do not have a policy of reporting.
I'm sorry, without more information, this piece of news is just flamebait in and of itself.
Please post an addendum as soon as you get it.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
No, I have not dealt with AutoDesk. My in-laws use AutoCAD and a dozen other similar programs for their tool and die making equipment and I've only had a nodding acquaintance with any of those licensing issues.
/.
I'm a configuration manager and used to Solaris, Rational's Purify, SUN's Workshop, and similar items with rather straight forward licenses and agreements.
I've also taken the liberty to have almost all our desktops moved over to running Linux of some stripe and we have started porting our software to Linux BECAUSE of the license issue. It's an easier license to understand and use as a basis for a software product. Everybody wins, the customer gets a good product as a reduced rate because they don't have to worry about the OS or licensing that, we get the source and can figure out what's screwing with what (if we care to) and put those changes back into the Linux baseline (if they care to put them there) and the only people who are missing the boat are the ones who require a zillion dollars for the licensing fees for any software product that includes their product.
This is one of the reasons we went away from MS desktops. Well, paying three/four times for the same software when you use Ghost to create a desktop does get a bit bothersome as well. Now we don't have to worry about the OS on the desktops, we have x-servers that display all the tools we require for day to day operations and we only pay once for the system no matter how many times we install the OS and no matter what machines it's on.
Oh well, enough rant. Seems something else is worthy of comment on
Dan
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Anyone who has read the news about Virginia Beach Gov't should not find this surprising at all. A company wants to ensure it's licenses are being upheld.
Now, I could get into the idea that MS waited until there was ample evidence that some governments were dependant on it's products before starting this, but that would sound like a Linux zelot.
Still begs the issue, why now? Why did they not start on day one and come down on pirates? Why have there been posts on MS bulletin boards saying that they don't care if you take the OS you use at work home with you to use. Unless they knew this day would come and only now the boom is lowering.
Does this really surprise anyone? Ensure everyone is dependant on it, saturate the market, then suddenly decide to play hardball with licenses. Gee, sounds like a decent business practice, but only works if you're a monopoly.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
No, my post was a joke. No, I didn't see the 60 hits for FreeBSD, I was making a comment on some of the more clueless dot-coms and their marketing approaches for the various open source OSs.
I'll try to be a little more explicit next time.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page
Maybe it was a joke.
DanH
Cav Pilot's Reference Page