Try here http://www.patents.ibm.com/ibm.html This is the IBM intellectual property network
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The feds could track the pager transmissions, and effectively study the social metrics of dating and mating with a whole new level of efficiency. Just imagine, getting a tip from the CIA, that the girl in apt 4b might just have what you are looking for. Nothing like Big Brother trying to find you a date on Friday night, hell they need to get you out of your apartment so they can search it. Might as well kill to birds with one stone:) Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't stay up this late, does weird things to the mind
I will reserve judgement until I can better review the evidence. Just because Big Brother has accused this man, does not mean he is guilty. We should not be so quick to judge based on the actions of our government. We should be carefull not to encourage tyrany. If he is guilty, then may pay for his crimes, but not until he is found guilty by his peers.
If he is guilty of this crime, may justice be served. However, I reserve judgement on this matter until I can better understand the facts. No one here has seen the evidence, yet everyone simply assumes that because the FBI says so, this man is guilty. Let us not be so trusting of big brother. Let us review the evidence, and judge the matter without prejudice. Let justice be served
Is natural, especially since everyone wants a palm sized(or smaller) computer that can run all of their favorite apps. Smaller is better in this market, and to get small you need to get integrated. Perhaps this is just one small step in the direction of Human, Computer integration. First, the CPU itself was made of several seperate boards, then the boards became a chip. The FPU was then integrated onto the chip, now it is time to integrate the whole system on the chip. Soon, the chip will integrate into the operator(imagine the death of the keyboard). Just imagine having "Intel Inside" stamped on your head, remember the "simpsons" commercial for Intel. Maybe it wasn't meant to be funny.
"Excuse me, I seem to have suffered a fatal exception, could you reboot me?"
Hmmm, I work and live in Austin as well. I would have to agree with you, if you don't like your job, move on and get a new job. Hell, they practically throw money at CS people here. I guess I will be staying in Austin, doesn't sound like fun over in Silicon Valley.
They think that because they work 18 hours a day, neglect their home life, end up divorced, have kids that don't know them, and few real friends, they are "Heros". They gave their all, 110%. Guess what, for that 110%, you will get a watch and maybe a small pention when you retire. You will dye alone, and no one that ever worked with you will care. There is so much more to life than the grind. People who overwork themselves aren't heros, they are idiots. I must admit though, for those of us with a slightly higher intelegence, it sure is nice to have all you mindless worker ants making the world a better place for us. In fact, tonight, I am going to go home, and enjoy the fruits of your labor. I'll be sure to dream a dream for you, while I rest assured in my bed tonight. Onward my little worker ants:)
The Mac is a great machine. If I had to run a business, I would put all of my non-technical employees on Mac's, and all of my Techs on any Linux or *BSD of their choice. For non-techs, Macs are great. It's a mom and pop type of computer. UNIX just isn't mom ready, and Windows is not a viable choice in my opinion. I wish Apple the best of luck, and I hope they fight to grow in the market. A computer is a tool, and as tools go, there are several varieties of the same tool. You wouldn't choose an M1-Abrams for a sunday drive, and you wouldn't choose a Lexus for combat. They both are land vehicles, but they are built for very different objectives. Linux is an M1-Abrams, and the Mac is a Lexus. Mom get's the Lexus, and we drive the tank.
Let's face it, everyone knew that Gnome was not ready for prime time. Red Hat was pressured by KDE's success, and by trouble at home with the enlightenment team. Anyhow, Gnome is good, and I expect it will grow into a mature window interface. My point is that, if you don't run Gnome, then Red Hat 6.0 is solid. No offense to you Gnome folks, I expect Gnome to be Prime Time in the next release or two, just not yet. So, my only complaint is that Red Hat has pushed Gnome out too early, it really should be at.9, not 1.x just yet. Either way, it looks good, and if the enlightenment team doesn't go haywire, I imagine that the two together will do fine.
I would much rather have Red Hat getting most of the focus from commercial companies, since they are very insistant on the GPL. Red Hat is dedicated to the GPL, and open source. They do not release any of their software as proprietary. In fact, their installation utilities are GPL, unlike others. That is why you see so many small distros that are based around Red Hat. You can't do that with Caldera and a few other Distros. Basically, Debian and Red Hat work to ensure that the GPL is followed. Many other distrobutions seem to feel that the GPL is a hinderance, and that they need to make their money off of proprietary parts of their distrobution. I don't worry too much about Red Hat's strength in this market, I just hope MS never gets controlling shares of their stock, now that would suck.
I remember compiling on Lattice C, the M68K's, dedicated processors named Denise, Agnus, and Paula. Those were the days. I even have my Amiga System Programmer's Guide from Abacus books. Hmmm, I fear that Amiga shall never recapture its former glory. I hope that I am wrong. I would love to return to my roots, and program once again for the Amiga. I miss my workbench.
However, Linux works, linux is open, linux is readily available, and linux is stable. Mr Thompson seems to have an axe to grind. No one has payed any attention to Plan 9. Plan 9, and Inferno, are supposedly the promise of the future in Operating systems and related components. However, they have failed to deliver on their promise. I can understand Mr Thompson's frustration. It's hard to capture the magic of the past. Mr Kernigen, Mr Ritche, and Mr Thompson have made the most important contribution to early computing. This legacy lives with us today, the world runs on Unix. However, instead of trying to relive the past, perhaps they should contribute to help building the future. What I mean by this, is that perhaps they should work on building upon the already sound foundation of Unix. A great architect builds upon the knowledge of the past, he does not try to re-invent the art. Plan 9 seems to me that they are trying to re-invent the art. Unix works, it's nearly perfect, and it's extremely stable. With another 20 years of development, Unix will be perfect. Why start all over, why try to re-invent the wheel. Focus on the details, perfect the art. Anyhow, no matter what Mr Thompson says, I will always respect him for his work on defining the art. His work has paved the way for me, and many others, to ply our craft. That craft is Unix, and the art is computer science.
I just recently upgraded to Red Hat 6.0 on two of my servers here at home, the other runs SuSE 6.0. Anyhow, the redhat upgrade fixed a problem I was having using IP-aliasing. They seem to have finally gotten the initial kernel config right, all I needed to do was choose the modules I needed, and away I went. They are using some special version of 2.2.5. They call it 2.2.5-15. Probably some internal bug fixes that are already in 2.2.6 and on. Anyhow, all works well, the upgrade went exceptionally smooth. everything still works under glibc 2.1! I was a bit reluctant to upgrade, but so far so good. Amazingly, nothing got clobbered in the upgrade. I especially liked the choice of shadowed passwords in the install. You no longer have to hunt this option down. Anyhow, good work Red Hat, though $80 is a bit too rich for my blood, this time I opted for a download(thank the machine for cable modems).
That *BSD has not had the same success in the comercial market as Linux has had. I would disagree. *BSD has had subsantialy more success, it's called SUN, HP-UX, Digital Unix, BSDI..... Oh, one problem though, those aren't open source operating systems. That is the main reason *BSD hasn't had the same percieved market presence that Linux does. Once a company gets a hold of the *BSD code, they hack it up, and release their crippled version under a proprietary license, so you never hear of *BSD, instead you hear of SUN, HP, BSDI....
Linux, on the other hand, will not let this happen. It can't happen because of the GPL. the GPL ensures that Linux will always remain open to the users. *BSD's fatal flaw was that companies could take control of it, and lock up the source. The license is the reason I choose Linux over *BSD. I am assured that Linux will always be Linux. My efforts will remain in the public domain. No one will be able to take that away from me, or any other user. I give respect to *BSD, we have all benefited from it! However, I live by the GPL.
Some dork writes a prank virus, and he gets threatened with up to 40 years in jail. He would have been better off to go shoot someone. At least then he would only be looking at around 7 to 10 years. Now I don't mean trivialize murder. The point I am making is that this guy basically pulled a prank. He didn't do any tangable damage. Things are getting way out of hand. The GOVT has too much power. Why take away this man's future for a stupid prank. Why is this a crime at all? This is more humor than anything. Microsoft shouldn't have left so many stupid doors open in their software. Anyhow, that is my take on things
Like any feature rich OS, Linux does take some time to get used to. It is not all that difficult to install if you RTFM(Read the Fsckng Manual). It isn't exactly a no-brainer, but neither is Win 9x or Win NT. For most things, the defaults are choosen well, and the casual user will not have to muddle with them much. Getting on the net is easy. It's getting X to work that can be a challange. However, again, if you RTFM, and you have supported hardware, it's no big deal. I particularly like Red Hat's Xconfigurator. It does the job in 90% of cases I have encountered. What it mostly boils down to is that you should READ the documentation available to you. Most users don't get Linux because they want point and click mindlessness. They get it because they want the power and stability that it offers. Anyhow I'm done preaching to the choir.
If you read what I said, I was making the point that Unix, and hence Linux is very popular, and yet it has few viruses. This is do to its solid security model.
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The feds could track the pager transmissions, and effectively study the social metrics of dating and mating with a whole new level of efficiency. Just imagine, getting a tip from the CIA, that the girl in apt 4b might just have what you are looking for. Nothing like Big Brother trying to find you a date on Friday night, hell they need to get you out of your apartment so they can search it. Might as well kill to birds with one stone :) Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't stay up this late, does weird things to the mind
I know it's been said before, but here is wishing you two a happy life filled with love and joy!
-Master Switch
Here here, good to see someone else who respects OpenVMS. I love em both, UNIX and OpenVMS. Too bad Compaq is killing OpenVMS
I will reserve judgement until I can better review the evidence. Just because Big Brother has accused this man, does not mean he is guilty. We should not be so quick to judge based on the actions of our government. We should be carefull not to encourage tyrany.
If he is guilty, then may pay for his crimes, but not until he is found guilty by his peers.
If he is guilty of this crime, may justice be served. However, I reserve judgement on this matter until I can better understand the facts. No one here has seen the evidence, yet everyone simply assumes that because the FBI says so, this man is guilty. Let us not be so trusting of big brother. Let us review the evidence, and judge the matter without prejudice. Let justice be served
Hmmm, Ok. Cool, never would have thought to take that route to strengthen my IT shop. But hey, if it works, more power to them.
I don't believe in 14 hour days, and 7 day weeks. I work to live, I don't live to work.
I use both daily, they both work well. Hey, as long as it is Unix, it's all good.
Is natural, especially since everyone wants a palm sized(or smaller) computer that can run all of their favorite apps. Smaller is better in this market, and to get small you need to get integrated. Perhaps this is just one small step in the direction of Human, Computer integration. First, the CPU itself was made of several seperate boards, then the boards became a chip. The FPU was then integrated onto the chip, now it is time to integrate the whole system on the chip. Soon, the chip will integrate into the operator(imagine the death of the keyboard). Just imagine having "Intel Inside" stamped on your head, remember the "simpsons" commercial for Intel. Maybe it wasn't meant to be funny.
"Excuse me, I seem to have suffered a fatal exception, could you reboot me?"
Hmmm, I work and live in Austin as well. I would have to agree with you, if you don't like your job, move on and get a new job. Hell, they practically throw money at CS people here. I guess I will be staying in Austin, doesn't sound like fun over in Silicon Valley.
They think that because they work 18 hours a day, neglect their home life, end up divorced, have kids that don't know them, and few real friends, they are "Heros". They gave their all, 110%. Guess what, for that 110%, you will get a watch and maybe a small pention when you retire. You will dye alone, and no one that ever worked with you will care. There is so much more to life than the grind. People who overwork themselves aren't heros, they are idiots. I must admit though, for those of us with a slightly higher intelegence, it sure is nice to have all you mindless worker ants making the world a better place for us. In fact, tonight, I am going to go home, and enjoy the fruits of your labor. I'll be sure to dream a dream for you, while I rest assured in my bed tonight. Onward my little worker ants :)
The Mac is a great machine. If I had to run a business, I would put all of my non-technical employees on Mac's, and all of my Techs on any Linux or *BSD of their choice. For non-techs, Macs are great. It's a mom and pop type of computer. UNIX just isn't mom ready, and Windows is not a viable choice in my opinion. I wish Apple the best of luck, and I hope they fight to grow in the market. A computer is a tool, and as tools go, there are several varieties of the same tool. You wouldn't choose an M1-Abrams for a sunday drive, and you wouldn't choose a Lexus for combat. They both are land vehicles, but they are built for very different objectives. Linux is an M1-Abrams, and the Mac is a Lexus. Mom get's the Lexus, and we drive the tank.
Let's face it, everyone knew that Gnome was not ready for prime time. Red Hat was pressured by KDE's success, and by trouble at home with the enlightenment team. Anyhow, Gnome is good, and I expect it will grow into a mature window interface. My point is that, if you don't run Gnome, then Red Hat 6.0 is solid. No offense to you Gnome folks, I expect Gnome to be Prime Time in the next release or two, just not yet. So, my only complaint is that Red Hat has pushed Gnome out too early, it really should be at .9, not 1.x just yet. Either way, it looks good, and if the enlightenment team doesn't go haywire, I imagine that the two together will do fine.
I would much rather have Red Hat getting most of the focus from commercial companies, since they are very insistant on the GPL. Red Hat is dedicated to the GPL, and open source. They do not release any of their software as proprietary. In fact, their installation utilities are GPL, unlike others. That is why you see so many small distros that are based around Red Hat. You can't do that with Caldera and a few other Distros. Basically, Debian and Red Hat work to ensure that the GPL is followed. Many other distrobutions seem to feel that the GPL is a hinderance, and that they need to make their money off of proprietary parts of their distrobution. I don't worry too much about Red Hat's strength in this market, I just hope MS never gets controlling shares of their stock, now that would suck.
But I think he has way to much time on his hands. Go buy an Alpha, get your favorite flavor of UNIX, and work on a real machine.
I remember compiling on Lattice C, the M68K's, dedicated processors named Denise, Agnus, and Paula. Those were the days. I even have my Amiga System Programmer's Guide from Abacus books. Hmmm, I fear that Amiga shall never recapture its former glory. I hope that I am wrong. I would love to return to my roots, and program once again for the Amiga. I miss my workbench.
However, Linux works, linux is open, linux is readily available, and linux is stable. Mr Thompson seems to have an axe to grind. No one has payed any attention to Plan 9. Plan 9, and Inferno, are supposedly the promise of the future in Operating systems and related components. However, they have failed to deliver on their promise. I can understand Mr Thompson's frustration. It's hard to capture the magic of the past. Mr Kernigen, Mr Ritche, and Mr Thompson have made the most important contribution to early computing. This legacy lives with us today, the world runs on Unix. However, instead of trying to relive the past, perhaps they should contribute to help building the future.
What I mean by this, is that perhaps they should work on building upon the already sound foundation of Unix. A great architect builds upon the knowledge of the past, he does not try to re-invent the art. Plan 9 seems to me that they are trying to re-invent the art. Unix works, it's nearly perfect, and it's extremely stable. With another 20 years of development, Unix will be perfect. Why start all over, why try to re-invent the wheel. Focus on the details, perfect the art. Anyhow, no matter what Mr Thompson says, I will always respect him for his work on defining the art. His work has paved the way for me, and many others, to ply our craft. That craft is Unix, and the art is computer science.
I just recently upgraded to Red Hat 6.0 on two of my servers here at home, the other runs SuSE 6.0. Anyhow, the redhat upgrade fixed a problem I was having using IP-aliasing. They seem to have finally gotten the initial kernel config right, all I needed to do was choose the modules I needed, and away I went. They are using some special version of 2.2.5. They call it 2.2.5-15. Probably some internal bug fixes that are already in 2.2.6 and on. Anyhow, all works well, the upgrade went exceptionally smooth. everything still works under glibc 2.1! I was a bit reluctant to upgrade, but so far so good. Amazingly, nothing got clobbered in the upgrade. I especially liked the choice of shadowed passwords in the install. You no longer have to hunt this option down. Anyhow, good work Red Hat, though $80 is a bit too rich for my blood, this time I opted for a download(thank the machine for cable modems).
That *BSD has not had the same success in the comercial market as Linux has had. I would disagree. *BSD has had subsantialy more success, it's called SUN, HP-UX, Digital Unix, BSDI..... Oh, one problem though, those aren't open source operating systems. That is the main reason *BSD hasn't had the same percieved market presence that Linux does. Once a company gets a hold of the *BSD code, they hack it up, and release their crippled version under a proprietary license, so you never hear of *BSD, instead you hear of SUN, HP, BSDI ....
Linux, on the other hand, will not let this happen. It can't happen because of the GPL. the GPL ensures that Linux will always remain open to the users. *BSD's fatal flaw was that companies could take control of it, and lock up the source. The license is the reason I choose Linux over *BSD. I am assured that Linux will always be Linux. My efforts will remain in the public domain. No one will be able to take that away from me, or any other user. I give respect to *BSD, we have all benefited from it! However, I live by the GPL.
-Master Switch out
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Some dork writes a prank virus, and he gets threatened with up to 40 years in jail. He would have been better off to go shoot someone. At least then he would only be looking at around 7 to 10 years. Now I don't mean trivialize murder. The point I am making is that this guy basically pulled a prank. He didn't do any tangable damage. Things are getting way out of hand. The GOVT has too much power. Why take away this man's future for a stupid prank. Why is this a crime at all? This is more humor than anything. Microsoft shouldn't have left so many stupid doors open in their software.
Anyhow, that is my take on things
Like any feature rich OS, Linux does take some
time to get used to. It is not all that difficult
to install if you RTFM(Read the Fsckng Manual).
It isn't exactly a no-brainer, but neither is
Win 9x or Win NT. For most things, the defaults
are choosen well, and the casual user will not
have to muddle with them much. Getting on the net
is easy. It's getting X to work that can be a
challange. However, again, if you RTFM, and
you have supported hardware, it's no big deal. I
particularly like Red Hat's Xconfigurator. It
does the job in 90% of cases I have encountered.
What it mostly boils down to is that you should
READ the documentation available to you. Most
users don't get Linux because they want point and
click mindlessness. They get it because they want
the power and stability that it offers. Anyhow
I'm done preaching to the choir.
If you read what I said, I was making the point that Unix, and hence Linux is very popular, and yet it has few viruses. This is do to its solid security model.