I thought that Win2K had it's own journalling file system, so most users will just use that, irrespective of how good the alternatives are. IBM probably don't want to expend resources porting to a platform where it won't be used much, although there's nothing stopping some other clever folk from doing it.
I've been trying to install W2K and it keeps failing at the very beginning while trying to load every single device driver it has. When it reaches the partitioning screen (after about 30 attempts) it refuses to install on my second drive. So much for the wonderful stable OS. I'll have to buy myself a copy of Partition Magic to move my Linux partitions out of the way just so it will install. Or else I could write off my small investment (it pays to have a kid sister at college:)) and forget about it. Thank god I didn't pay the full price, else I'd be sending email viruses to Redmond.
It all sounds plausible, but there is an implementation of Samba for OS/390, IBM's OS for their big-iron mainframes. IBM have pretty deep pockets too, and they're no friend to MS.
Cannabis does have one nasty side-effect. If you're worried about something and you smoke too much weed you get nightmare panic attacks. But I love it when I smoke the odd spliff and can't stop giggling. Amsterdam is my favourite city in the world closely followed by Copenhagen.
I don't think Microsoft have innovated yet and Windows is on 90% of the desktops. Innovation is trivial, it's the clever marketing lies and buzzwords that sell it to the business graduates that actually sign the cheques, and that's where MS excels (no pun intended).
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How many email clients on Unix have that option at all, never mind enabled by default like Active Scripting. Yes, I know admins should turn it off, but why include it at all? I can think of very few advantages of it's existence.
ME is an illness of the nervous system that causes suffers to feel tired all the time and generally slow down and have no energy. These poor people until recently have been dismissed as malingerers but now medical experts have begun to treat them properly.
WinME is the port to the x86 architecture. It causes the computer to gradually slow down and lose speed. Until recently people that suffered from this were called Linux zealots and Unix geeks, but now computer experts have begun to treat them properly.
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But how much of a market is there for people who live in cities and drive only short distances.
Every mother who hauls her lazy brats to school every morning. My mum would love this, and so would my sister.
I would have thought that the OSes that can do this now would convert when necessary and use a v4v6 translation mechanism when encountering a v4 address.
Back at the beginning of the 90s, the Deutschmark was more powerful than the dollar. Then the German economy collapsed, thanks to Chancellor Kohl's egocentric wish to be the German unifier i.e. taking on all the problems of East Germany. This is the reason now why the German economy is a shadow of itself. A lot of European countries are doing very nicely. Ireland, for example, exported more software than the US last year and currently has an unemployment rate lower than that of the US. The Dutch insurance and banking sector is thriving, as is Luxembourg's. What you've also got to remember is that most of Europe's economy is founded on real money, which isn't fashionable at the moment, but when the stock market collapses in the US, as it did under similar conditions in the Far East i.e. massive debts and corruption, and the pretend dollars disappear, Europe will be the place to have your money stashed.
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When I say the 'western' world, I mean the richest countries in the world. And over here in the UK, I am far, far less likely to get shot, because it's damn hard to get a gun here, even illegally.
Wouldn't that sort of contradict the 'Linux is based on 30-year old technology' argument though?
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Without the ability to fight, how can you defend yourself from oppression?
I would find it oppressive to live in a country where people with real mental problems go on a shooting spree with a gun they bought in a hypermarket. Freedom isn't much use if you're shot before you even know what's going on.
It's also interesting to note that gun crime in the rest of the western world is virtually non-existant outside of terrorism and gangs shooting each other, perhaps because US criminals know they need a gun before they go a-robbin'. You're only free if the other side isn't armed as well, then it's just a case of who's quicker to react.
Funny, but I thought that it was the egomaniacal dictators that did that. Although, if you ask any former Soviet citizen whether his/her life has improved since the fall of communism, the answer is invariably no. They may not have been free to speak their mind, but they were free to walk the streets without worrying about being attacked. Nowadays, the worst parts of Prague and Warsaw make the Bronx look tame. Hooray for the
free-market and the end of corruption.
And of course corporations are really collectives headed by the democratically-elected CEO and owned by the workers, rather than headed by egomaniacs and owned by large financial institutions.
Basically that European consumers are yet again being subjected to higher prices by American corporations and were being denied our rights as consumers to buy from somewhere cheaper (ie the US) as we can with lots of other things like CDs. I don't think that I'll get a response, but I had to give it a go. Next stop my MEP. Since they want people to be interested in the European governance system, hopefully they'll be a bit more helpful.
I've sent an email to the European Union folk asking if anyone is looking into this. Let's see if I get a sensible answer (or an answer at all for that matter), given that the EU doesn't like US corporations at all.
Here in the UK a DVD costs 20 pounds, which is around $30. You pay $20. Why the difference? OK, $10 is not a huge sum of money, until you translate that into how much the, largely unknowing, public here spend on films. Why the difference? So that consumers can be screwed. Why the region encoding? So that people from the UK don't buy films when they're on holiday in the US like they do now with VHS that they can play in their clever PAL/NTSC VCR. I don't want to patronise you here, but there are 5.8 billion people in the world outside your particular continent, and some of them, impressed by the new technology, but not knowing anything about the crap behind it, are being screwed. On a personal level, I'd like a copy of the X-Men on DVD, but that's only just hit the theatres here, so it's at least 6 months away, and my region-encoded Windows DVD player is now unable to change the region any more, even DVDGenie can't sort it out (at least for now). I've already paid $2000 for a PC with a DVD player, I'm not particularly inclined to shell out another $400 for a dedicated region-free DVD player merely because the US studios want to rip me off. Livid is very close, but not quite, ready for prime time, and the MPAA could still shut them down for the crime of wanting to use their products on a non-approved operating system.
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I thought that Win2K had it's own journalling file system, so most users will just use that, irrespective of how good the alternatives are. IBM probably don't want to expend resources porting to a platform where it won't be used much, although there's nothing stopping some other clever folk from doing it.
Broken links suck, sorry. You can find kuro5hin here.
mindwire.org - /. with fewer spelling errors, better science stories, nicer commentary, and no JonKatz!
Shhhh, Signal11'll hear you. He's already posted a story on kuro5hin.
I've been trying to install W2K and it keeps failing at the very beginning while trying to load every single device driver it has. When it reaches the partitioning screen (after about 30 attempts) it refuses to install on my second drive. So much for the wonderful stable OS. I'll have to buy myself a copy of Partition Magic to move my Linux partitions out of the way just so it will install. Or else I could write off my small investment (it pays to have a kid sister at college :)) and forget about it. Thank god I didn't pay the full price, else I'd be sending email viruses to Redmond.
What functionality that you need is missing on Mandrake?
It all sounds plausible, but there is an implementation of Samba for OS/390, IBM's OS for their big-iron mainframes. IBM have pretty deep pockets too, and they're no friend to MS.
Cannabis does have one nasty side-effect. If you're worried about something and you smoke too much weed you get nightmare panic attacks. But I love it when I smoke the odd spliff and can't stop giggling. Amsterdam is my favourite city in the world closely followed by Copenhagen.
I don't think Microsoft have innovated yet and Windows is on 90% of the desktops. Innovation is trivial, it's the clever marketing lies and buzzwords that sell it to the business graduates that actually sign the cheques, and that's where MS excels (no pun intended).
How many email clients on Unix have that option at all, never mind enabled by default like Active Scripting. Yes, I know admins should turn it off, but why include it at all? I can think of very few advantages of it's existence.
ME is an illness of the nervous system that causes suffers to feel tired all the time and generally slow down and have no energy. These poor people until recently have been dismissed as malingerers but now medical experts have begun to treat them properly.
WinME is the port to the x86 architecture. It causes the computer to gradually slow down and lose speed. Until recently people that suffered from this were called Linux zealots and Unix geeks, but now computer experts have begun to treat them properly.
But how much of a market is there for people who live in cities and drive only short distances.
Every mother who hauls her lazy brats to school every morning. My mum would love this, and so would my sister.
Yes, I was amazed to see that the opinions of the technical experts were ignored by the management. Surely this sort of thing is rare in IT (snigger)
I never saw anything in the spec like "test for DR-DOS and break". I would be very surprised if this has changed
So that $150million they paid to Caldera was just out of generosity?
Now that you've woken up from your 3 month kip, check this out.
I would have thought that the OSes that can do this now would convert when necessary and use a v4v6 translation mechanism when encountering a v4 address.
Back at the beginning of the 90s, the Deutschmark was more powerful than the dollar. Then the German economy collapsed, thanks to Chancellor Kohl's egocentric wish to be the German unifier i.e. taking on all the problems of East Germany. This is the reason now why the German economy is a shadow of itself. A lot of European countries are doing very nicely. Ireland, for example, exported more software than the US last year and currently has an unemployment rate lower than that of the US. The Dutch insurance and banking sector is thriving, as is Luxembourg's. What you've also got to remember is that most of Europe's economy is founded on real money, which isn't fashionable at the moment, but when the stock market collapses in the US, as it did under similar conditions in the Far East i.e. massive debts and corruption, and the pretend dollars disappear, Europe will be the place to have your money stashed.
When I say the 'western' world, I mean the richest countries in the world. And over here in the UK, I am far, far less likely to get shot, because it's damn hard to get a gun here, even illegally.
Wouldn't that sort of contradict the 'Linux is based on 30-year old technology' argument though?
Without the ability to fight, how can you defend yourself from oppression?
I would find it oppressive to live in a country where people with real mental problems go on a shooting spree with a gun they bought in a hypermarket. Freedom isn't much use if you're shot before you even know what's going on.
It's also interesting to note that gun crime in the rest of the western world is virtually non-existant outside of terrorism and gangs shooting each other, perhaps because US criminals know they need a gun before they go a-robbin'. You're only free if the other side isn't armed as well, then it's just a case of who's quicker to react.
Sorry, I don't get a warm, fuzzy feeling from a candidate who says he wants us to have the privacy of Germany and France.
Could you explain this statement? I don't remember any privacy issues when I lived in Frankfurt.
Funny, but I thought that it was the egomaniacal dictators that did that. Although, if you ask any former Soviet citizen whether his/her life has improved since the fall of communism, the answer is invariably no. They may not have been free to speak their mind, but they were free to walk the streets without worrying about being attacked. Nowadays, the worst parts of Prague and Warsaw make the Bronx look tame. Hooray for the
free-market and the end of corruption.
And of course corporations are really collectives headed by the democratically-elected CEO and owned by the workers, rather than headed by egomaniacs and owned by large financial institutions.
Basically that European consumers are yet again being subjected to higher prices by American corporations and were being denied our rights as consumers to buy from somewhere cheaper (ie the US) as we can with lots of other things like CDs. I don't think that I'll get a response, but I had to give it a go. Next stop my MEP. Since they want people to be interested in the European governance system, hopefully they'll be a bit more helpful.
I've sent an email to the European Union folk asking if anyone is looking into this. Let's see if I get a sensible answer (or an answer at all for that matter), given that the EU doesn't like US corporations at all.
Here in the UK a DVD costs 20 pounds, which is around $30. You pay $20. Why the difference? OK, $10 is not a huge sum of money, until you translate that into how much the, largely unknowing, public here spend on films. Why the difference? So that consumers can be screwed. Why the region encoding? So that people from the UK don't buy films when they're on holiday in the US like they do now with VHS that they can play in their clever PAL/NTSC VCR. I don't want to patronise you here, but there are 5.8 billion people in the world outside your particular continent, and some of them, impressed by the new technology, but not knowing anything about the crap behind it, are being screwed. On a personal level, I'd like a copy of the X-Men on DVD, but that's only just hit the theatres here, so it's at least 6 months away, and my region-encoded Windows DVD player is now unable to change the region any more, even DVDGenie can't sort it out (at least for now). I've already paid $2000 for a PC with a DVD player, I'm not particularly inclined to shell out another $400 for a dedicated region-free DVD player merely because the US studios want to rip me off. Livid is very close, but not quite, ready for prime time, and the MPAA could still shut them down for the crime of wanting to use their products on a non-approved operating system.