According to: http://quotes.freerealtime.com/rt/frt/quotes?symbo l=LNUX&type=Quote
As of the time I post it it is listing the price as $30/share but with 0 volume. Am I looking at a glitch (a moment ago it was nothing but zeros all across, including the price and change).
I hate this... I dont know what is going on exactly, and when you have your own money riding it's fearful.
I wish there was a page saying "VA is currently trading" or "VA is not currently trading".
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ANDN is at $80/share as of right now... even at $62/share that is a nice profit.
You need to play the waiting game. Sit in fromt of freerealtimequote until something happens.
My workstation has three 9 gig SCSI drives. I have two 20.4 gig Ultra33 IDE drives as well.
I dont notice a difference between the two at all. I do a lot of large database work which swaps between the drives.... and like many other programmers I enjoy some mp3s or a quick game of doom while I wait for a database rebuild or something like that.
The only machine I have that gets a mp3 skip when I do a hard drive copy is my PII-266 laptop. It has an Intel 82371AB/EB PCI IDE controller. I think its the problem of the controller... possibly the drive is slow too
I believe it's called the One4All Theatre or something similar.
It's a great remote, a friend of mine recommended to me. It's programmable to hold six devices, and can learn functions from other remotes.
Plus it has several user definable macros that allow you to turn on the receiver, tv, and dvd player (in a certain order) with one click. Can also change the channel to channel 4 or make your tv go to input 1 or something.
I know someone else with one of the $300 Sony remotes (came with his receiver though), it is basically a 5 line LCD with a scroll up/down thingie... the rest of the buttons are hidden. It's a great remote, if you can afford it, especially when you lose it in the seat cushions.
When I was in seventh grade (only 7 or 8 years ago), one of my assignments in english class was to construct a horror story.
90% of the class had stories about killing a particular teacher or student. It was all a joke, and the teacher got a kick out of it.
I have a 10 year old brother, who never does anything along those lines. Kids who draw pictures of "evil" things are sent to the counselors for review. Draw a skull and cross bones on a pirate ship, and you're viewed as a possible nutcase.
My naming convention is based on African animals. Zebra, Springbok, Mongoose, Hippo, Lion, etc...
The names are usually fitting.. Lion being my overly powerful workstation.
I have connected to machines with names based on numbers and networks seperating each machine type with a different subnet and naming system.
When it comes down to it, a user has a better time dealing with their server if they have a name for it. In many cases you need to know the name of your box in order to do various tasks. In my case, all my users need to know the name of their machine in order to access their pages via SSL.
Show me a user that will think thehulk is unprofessional.
It's not as bad as the Windows 98 SE shut down bug... many machines NEVER shut down. It'll leave the "Shuting Down" message forever.. and if you hit the power key it runs scandisk.
I worked on a network server that would take an hour to boot because it had multiple network cards that all used DHCP which never worked on the first try.
So what would happen is each card would attempt DHCP, fail 5 minutes later. Then when the machine got into the login screen it would start loading services... including web services. It would then try DHCP again, and fail 5 minutes later with an error popup.
The sysadmin had rigged a macro to do DHCP the right way. Why they don't use non DHCP, I will never know. Or why they won't replace their Windows DHCP server, I will never know that either.
Windows is bad. Don't use it.
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I saw a television interview with the Lego company last year sometime, since LEGO Americas is located in Connecticut, where I now live.
They declared that it is offensive to the LEGO company to call them Legos, although the guy being interviewed admitted that in the USA they don't generally care all that much.
I grew up in South Africa, I've always believed the plural of Lego is Lego. I've been a member of the Lego Club since 1982... not once have I seen "Legos" written. Sometimes "Lego's" when talking about the company, but that's it.
I don't see any reason to butcher the name though. We don't butcher other brands:
Kleenex - "I need a Kleenex", "Toss me the Kleenex", "Hand me a bunch of Kleenex".
You can substitute a lot of words there besides Kleenex.
What I hate about most movies like "The Net" and "Hackers", besides the fact that they are inaccurate, is the way they flaunt their technology.
Take Hackers for example. I first watched it recently on DVD. It is a must see movie, just because it's so funny.. anyway... they flaunt technology to the point where they are throwing out technical words and even making up some of their own. Pointing out the active matrix display and the 28.8kbps modem on the laptops wasn't necessary for hte movie.
A computer oriented movie should be sort of timeless. Don't specify out loud what sort of computer it is, don't say it has a 2400 bps modem that kicks ass over everyone elses 300bps modem.
The computer should be nameless, and the GUI should be generic. Not Windows, not MacOS.
If they're making a movie for geeks, don't do things like in Office Space... we notice things like: A Gateway computer, that boots to the DOS prompt and runs Filemaker or Dbase or something in MacOS.
Making things more realistic wouldn't hurt at all.
But to be honest, why would I want to go see a computer movie? Hackers and The Net are good for people not in the industry. I want to see a movie like Fight Club or American Beauty! Sex and Violence is what I want.
Well, i would think 14.4 gig hard drive would be nice. 500 megs isn't enough. I'm looking at twenty users using the thing. At least half of them are always checking the same stuff over and over... as reference material which never changes. These include PDF files and other very large files.
Squid is the one that I found in freshmeat... and I'll probably give that a try...
But I still haven't heard anyone say if squid is any good! Anyone run it?
After reading the recent news.com article regarding Gateway selling Cobalt boxes, I started wondering about data caching.
At my house, I have a dedicated internet connection (T1) which I use for a bit of web hosting. The members of the household, and a couple of the neighbors use the T1 link as their source to the internet as well.
I realize that their bandwidth usage isn't that high, but since most users seem to be hitting the same sites over and over again, I think I would see a difference in usage (and speed visiting those sites) by using an appliance similar to CacheFlow's.
Since their devices are more expensive than a regular linux box, and they run on their own proprietary OS (called CacheOS), I would presume I could set up a low end server with a 14.4gig hard drive and let it cache for me.
My question is, what software (linux) have people used to do this? Are the advantages worth the effort?
Back when MSIE 3 came out, and the start of the real dirty browser wars... magazines, especially Ziff Davis ones, were going mad comparing Netscape ith MSIE.. every so often they would compare the two with Opera and Mosaic.
It's time for another comparison. I want to see the goods. Screen shots of some pages, reviews, etc. I don't have time to do it myself. I'm content fudging around with Netscape and trying to avoid crashes.
I don't see myself using Opera.. since I can't bring myself to pay for a browser when MSIE runs well under VMWare, which I paid for and find useful.
I never liked Netscape's text handling. Text handling in all the nix's is quite bad... but even Netscape for Windows (come on Adobe! Do what you did to Windows to Linux! Bring us some nice engines!) looks drab.
Text is all the wrong size too.. maybe it's because people write for MSIE... but even/. looks not right to me. Do I have time to customize my browser?
I really don't have much against Microsoft. I'm jealous of Bill Gates. I hate the operating system. But, the company has treated me well.
I really don't like Netscape though. I thought it was the cat's meow back when the 1.x versions were being released. But since 2.0 came out, it's been going down hill.
2.0 had frames support. Next hting I know, every site has these horrible frames dividing up every inch of the screen into tiny little squares, filled with animated gifs and blinking text on a black background.
Then there was Navigator Gold.. where everyone and their mother could create a web page. Granted, I wouldn't have a source of income without it... but I just find something evil about the software.
And Linux, the most stable OS I've used on an Intel x86 chip. I have to run Netscape, the lease reliable software for it... WHY!?!?
The thing is, Dell managed to offer another OS.. even with Microsoft's licensing.
Also, I really don't see anything wrong with those internal memos. I believe every company must be competitive. They all must crush the competition. That's the whole point... I think.
And I think the integration wasn't necessarily to stomp netscape. It helped... but it was a natural progression. Even OS/2 started leaning towards network integration of that sort. Many theorists have been saying a HTML OS is good... I disagree.. but... whatever.
I am not a fan of much of Microsoft... but I do like some of their products.
My only Windows machine is my laptop. It's running Windows 98 SE with IE5 and Office 2000.
I do think that Microsoft should give installers a choice on whether or not to install IE5 (if you choose no, only minimal parts to IE5 will be installed.. but no internet explorer icon will be placed, etc).
The thing is, Internet Explorer is the best browser. Netscape Navigator is a poor example of a Linux app since it crashes and has more quirks than IE5 that I don't like. Not to mention the text handling.
If they are going to divide MS up... which is already divided into divisions anyway... it won't necessarily help. Regulation is the only cure in my eyes. Make sure that the OS division doesn't block features of a competing product of another division.
I've lost touch over what this anti-trust suit is all about. What are they trying to accomplish?
Their monopoly is caused more by them shelling out cash for developers and computer manufacturers to sell Windows and Windows products.
The thing is... it doesn't stop Dell or other companies from selling Linux based machines. And it doesn't stop developers from producing Windows software.
Nor will dividing the company prevent the various grants that Microsoft gives out to developers.
My big question, and I am sure someone else has asked this... is why is he installing Caldera 1.2?
I am not familiar with Caldera, I'm a mandrake/redhat user, but... I do know they're on version 2.3 and that 2.3 is supposed to be really easy to install. Hell, version 1.3 of Caldera has been out for a while!
I realize that we all went through the painful install process at some time back way when. Back when I was using pre1.0 beta of slackware on and off.
Most people at least know to use the latest release version if they're doing something new.. even if they have no clue to what they're doing.
All I can think of is that this is some sort of cruel joke. I admit it would be funny to give a guy a P90 with a weird no name video card and a Red Hat 3.0 CD. In fact, I think I might just do that.......
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According to: http://quotes.freerealtime.com/rt/frt/quotes?symbo l=LNUX&type=Quote
As of the time I post it it is listing the price as $30/share but with 0 volume. Am I looking at a glitch (a moment ago it was nothing but zeros all across, including the price and change).
I hate this... I dont know what is going on exactly, and when you have your own money riding it's fearful.
I wish there was a page saying "VA is currently trading" or "VA is not currently trading".
ANDN is at $80/share as of right now... even at $62/share that is a nice profit.
You need to play the waiting game. Sit in fromt of freerealtimequote until something happens.
The only way a stock makes you money is if you sell it.
I'm guessing you bought during their 1997 decrease.
While they have been going up since then, it wont go forever.
Just my 2 cents of info you probably already know.
What could be a better idea than make it so the user hovers above a pad, freely able to move his or her hands or legs while in a VR suit.
You could make millions on the anti-gravity machine alone. When you do, send me one.
Upgrade your P100! Or replace it.
My workstation has three 9 gig SCSI drives. I have two 20.4 gig Ultra33 IDE drives as well.
I dont notice a difference between the two at all. I do a lot of large database work which swaps between the drives.... and like many other programmers I enjoy some mp3s or a quick game of doom while I wait for a database rebuild or something like that.
The only machine I have that gets a mp3 skip when I do a hard drive copy is my PII-266 laptop. It has an Intel 82371AB/EB PCI IDE controller. I think its the problem of the controller... possibly the drive is slow too
Maxtor and Seagate have three year I believe. IBM is five, I'm pretty sure of that.
I am looking for a city with lots of bandwidth, decent nightlife, friendly people, and money.
San Diego, CA sounds nice to me right now... anyone know of any other cities?
I run an ISP and used to have my sendmail configured to filter out MAPS RBL spam.
I found that it also filtered good traffic... because many other isps are black listed because they've had spammers in the past, etc.
If all ISPs maintained their systems correctly, and kept themselves off the list, I would use it. But I lost too much business due to it.
- Hugh
I believe it's called the One4All Theatre or something similar.
It's a great remote, a friend of mine recommended to me. It's programmable to hold six devices, and can learn functions from other remotes.
Plus it has several user definable macros that allow you to turn on the receiver, tv, and dvd player (in a certain order) with one click. Can also change the channel to channel 4 or make your tv go to input 1 or something.
I know someone else with one of the $300 Sony remotes (came with his receiver though), it is basically a 5 line LCD with a scroll up/down thingie... the rest of the buttons are hidden. It's a great remote, if you can afford it, especially when you lose it in the seat cushions.
When I was in seventh grade (only 7 or 8 years ago), one of my assignments in english class was to construct a horror story.
90% of the class had stories about killing a particular teacher or student. It was all a joke, and the teacher got a kick out of it.
I have a 10 year old brother, who never does anything along those lines. Kids who draw pictures of "evil" things are sent to the counselors for review. Draw a skull and cross bones on a pirate ship, and you're viewed as a possible nutcase.
--EOM
A home just by my Aunt's house in South Africa is made up of a renovated Boeing 747 jumbo. They attempted to convert this one into a restaurant first.
They can be decorated very nicely. I didn't have the chance to take a peek (but could have, and should have).
Essentially its a very large object that can likely make your neighbors very angry at you.
My naming convention is based on African animals. Zebra, Springbok, Mongoose, Hippo, Lion, etc...
The names are usually fitting.. Lion being my overly powerful workstation.
I have connected to machines with names based on numbers and networks seperating each machine type with a different subnet and naming system.
When it comes down to it, a user has a better time dealing with their server if they have a name for it. In many cases you need to know the name of your box in order to do various tasks. In my case, all my users need to know the name of their machine in order to access their pages via SSL.
Show me a user that will think thehulk is unprofessional.
My point is that people say Kleenex regardless of how many tissues they're talking about.
I say we don't try to make sense out of the english language.
It is SP3, and it wasn't only Alpha.
It's not as bad as the Windows 98 SE shut down bug... many machines NEVER shut down. It'll leave the "Shuting Down" message forever.. and if you hit the power key it runs scandisk.
You can't win with Windows.
I worked on a network server that would take an hour to boot because it had multiple network cards that all used DHCP which never worked on the first try.
So what would happen is each card would attempt DHCP, fail 5 minutes later. Then when the machine got into the login screen it would start loading services... including web services. It would then try DHCP again, and fail 5 minutes later with an error popup.
The sysadmin had rigged a macro to do DHCP the right way. Why they don't use non DHCP, I will never know. Or why they won't replace their Windows DHCP server, I will never know that either.
Windows is bad. Don't use it.
I saw a television interview with the Lego company last year sometime, since LEGO Americas is located in Connecticut, where I now live.
They declared that it is offensive to the LEGO company to call them Legos, although the guy being interviewed admitted that in the USA they don't generally care all that much.
I grew up in South Africa, I've always believed the plural of Lego is Lego. I've been a member of the Lego Club since 1982... not once have I seen "Legos" written. Sometimes "Lego's" when talking about the company, but that's it.
I don't see any reason to butcher the name though. We don't butcher other brands:
Kleenex - "I need a Kleenex", "Toss me the Kleenex", "Hand me a bunch of Kleenex".
You can substitute a lot of words there besides Kleenex.
What I hate about most movies like "The Net" and "Hackers", besides the fact that they are inaccurate, is the way they flaunt their technology.
Take Hackers for example. I first watched it recently on DVD. It is a must see movie, just because it's so funny.. anyway... they flaunt technology to the point where they are throwing out technical words and even making up some of their own. Pointing out the active matrix display and the 28.8kbps modem on the laptops wasn't necessary for hte movie.
A computer oriented movie should be sort of timeless. Don't specify out loud what sort of computer it is, don't say it has a 2400 bps modem that kicks ass over everyone elses 300bps modem.
The computer should be nameless, and the GUI should be generic. Not Windows, not MacOS.
If they're making a movie for geeks, don't do things like in Office Space... we notice things like:
A Gateway computer, that boots to the DOS prompt and runs Filemaker or Dbase or something in MacOS.
Making things more realistic wouldn't hurt at all.
But to be honest, why would I want to go see a computer movie? Hackers and The Net are good for people not in the industry. I want to see a movie like Fight Club or American Beauty! Sex and Violence is what I want.
Well, what I don't want is to buy a turn-key solution.
I can't see myself buying a RaQ either. I can build a box for much cheaper than that.
Well, i would think 14.4 gig hard drive would be nice. 500 megs isn't enough. I'm looking at twenty users using the thing. At least half of them are always checking the same stuff over and over... as reference material which never changes. These include PDF files and other very large files.
Squid is the one that I found in freshmeat... and I'll probably give that a try...
But I still haven't heard anyone say if squid is any good! Anyone run it?
At my house, I have a dedicated internet connection (T1) which I use for a bit of web hosting. The members of the household, and a couple of the neighbors use the T1 link as their source to the internet as well.
I realize that their bandwidth usage isn't that high, but since most users seem to be hitting the same sites over and over again, I think I would see a difference in usage (and speed visiting those sites) by using an appliance similar to CacheFlow's.
Since their devices are more expensive than a regular linux box, and they run on their own proprietary OS (called CacheOS), I would presume I could set up a low end server with a 14.4gig hard drive and let it cache for me.
My question is, what software (linux) have people used to do this? Are the advantages worth the effort?
Back when MSIE 3 came out, and the start of the real dirty browser wars... magazines, especially Ziff Davis ones, were going mad comparing Netscape ith MSIE.. every so often they would compare the two with Opera and Mosaic.
/. looks not right to me. Do I have time to customize my browser?
It's time for another comparison. I want to see the goods. Screen shots of some pages, reviews, etc. I don't have time to do it myself. I'm content fudging around with Netscape and trying to avoid crashes.
I don't see myself using Opera.. since I can't bring myself to pay for a browser when MSIE runs well under VMWare, which I paid for and find useful.
I never liked Netscape's text handling. Text handling in all the nix's is quite bad... but even Netscape for Windows (come on Adobe! Do what you did to Windows to Linux! Bring us some nice engines!) looks drab.
Text is all the wrong size too.. maybe it's because people write for MSIE... but even
All I want is Internet Explorer for Linux.
I really don't have much against Microsoft. I'm jealous of Bill Gates. I hate the operating system. But, the company has treated me well.
I really don't like Netscape though. I thought it was the cat's meow back when the 1.x versions were being released. But since 2.0 came out, it's been going down hill.
2.0 had frames support. Next hting I know, every site has these horrible frames dividing up every inch of the screen into tiny little squares, filled with animated gifs and blinking text on a black background.
Then there was Navigator Gold.. where everyone and their mother could create a web page. Granted, I wouldn't have a source of income without it... but I just find something evil about the software.
And Linux, the most stable OS I've used on an Intel x86 chip. I have to run Netscape, the lease reliable software for it... WHY!?!?
Gah.
The thing is, Dell managed to offer another OS.. even with Microsoft's licensing.
Also, I really don't see anything wrong with those internal memos. I believe every company must be competitive. They all must crush the competition. That's the whole point... I think.
And I think the integration wasn't necessarily to stomp netscape. It helped... but it was a natural progression. Even OS/2 started leaning towards network integration of that sort. Many theorists have been saying a HTML OS is good... I disagree.. but... whatever.
Eck.
I am not a fan of much of Microsoft... but I do like some of their products.
My only Windows machine is my laptop. It's running Windows 98 SE with IE5 and Office 2000.
I do think that Microsoft should give installers a choice on whether or not to install IE5 (if you choose no, only minimal parts to IE5 will be installed.. but no internet explorer icon will be placed, etc).
The thing is, Internet Explorer is the best browser. Netscape Navigator is a poor example of a Linux app since it crashes and has more quirks than IE5 that I don't like. Not to mention the text handling.
If they are going to divide MS up... which is already divided into divisions anyway... it won't necessarily help. Regulation is the only cure in my eyes. Make sure that the OS division doesn't block features of a competing product of another division.
I've lost touch over what this anti-trust suit is all about. What are they trying to accomplish?
Their monopoly is caused more by them shelling out cash for developers and computer manufacturers to sell Windows and Windows products.
The thing is... it doesn't stop Dell or other companies from selling Linux based machines. And it doesn't stop developers from producing Windows software.
Nor will dividing the company prevent the various grants that Microsoft gives out to developers.
Where am I wrong here?
My big question, and I am sure someone else has asked this... is why is he installing Caldera 1.2?
I am not familiar with Caldera, I'm a mandrake/redhat user, but... I do know they're on version 2.3 and that 2.3 is supposed to be really easy to install. Hell, version 1.3 of Caldera has been out for a while!
I realize that we all went through the painful install process at some time back way when. Back when I was using pre1.0 beta of slackware on and off.
Most people at least know to use the latest release version if they're doing something new.. even if they have no clue to what they're doing.
All I can think of is that this is some sort of cruel joke. I admit it would be funny to give a guy a P90 with a weird no name video card and a Red Hat 3.0 CD. In fact, I think I might just do that.......