As long as we have Larry (Wall) and Linus
(Torvalds), I think we'd be just fine.
Seriously, we know what can be done, and (hopefully) what shouldn't be. So it would be much easier. Practically, it wouldn't take very long.
On the other hand you might have lots of Microsoft's and such creating one-of's. Think BETA/VHS/LaserDisc.
Well I can't comment on the utilities etc. other than that's the whole point; UN*Xy and all.
But for remote access, what's wrong with SSH?
And while where you are at may not have an SSH client, there are many serviceable Java-SSH clients, that you could set up on the same server that you could then browse to and use as necessary.
I use the MH mail maildir format.
MH, nmh, xmh, exmh can all handle this.
I especially like the fact that it uses the underlying filesystem for structure.
You can grep through messages more readily,
do misc. file operations on a single message.
nmh is available on standard RH 6 disribution media. and easy to find with a search on the web.
Well it sounds like the Cartoon Network had the best commercials. They had wonderful parodies of last year's Monster commercials, recent Volkswagen and GAP ones as well.
Accessability. And how do you do it?
With CSS. (Style sheets, http://w3.org/Style/css/)
Just don't go overboard. And don't abuse it.
Take moviefone.com for example, their site
Is completely illegible for me with CSS enabled.
Make sure the site looks decent in at least:
Netscape 3, Netscape 4, IE4, IE 5, Lynx.
And probably:
Opera, Netscape 6/Mozilla.
But if you've done things right there really shouldn't be any issues. Above all don't get anal about alignment down to the pixel; this usually becomes an issue when you're miusing images...
Out side of that, yes. A killer search facility.
It's amazing how many large sites there are that
focus so much on flash, java, and other mindless
drivel, and provide you with no menas of actually getting at what you need.
However AMD and Cyrix are still clones of
the x86 chips. Same ISA, etc. you
certainly don't install Linux or Solaris for
SPARC on an AMD. You install i386 etc...
And the inability to get down to pure DOS
is nto all, you cannot enter protected mode either.
There's nothing wrong with the FS. You just can't get another OS to stomp on top of WinME.
BeOS, or linux(loadlin)...
There are a few things wrong with this... 1) Why on earth do you want to volutnatrily give so much power to a company? They don't want it and you're shoving it down their throats. Big Brother as a government is bad enough. But Big Brother as a company? For the most part the demos are capable of pulling down or keeping a government in check when necessary. But what are you going to do to a huge company? Sure Yahoo! isn't huge, but it'd set precedence. 2) Nobody ever had such thoughts about policing cities/states/countries etc. Except within the last few centuries nobody ever "set out" to make a country. And they certainly had no idea of what the hell they were doing. For a better grasp of how large political organizations came about you might want to check out: http://www1.f atbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0393 317552 Guns, Germs and Steel
I'll give you the binaries. The rest can already be done, and while TMTOWTDI is the motto. You'll find people reluctant to replace INTERNAL functionality at the drop of a hat. See the debate over ??= http://www.perl.com/tchrist/defop/defconfaq.html
More domain extensions aren't going to do anything...
Say I'm Coca Cola. Technically I should be using Coca Cola.com. But am I going to let you use coca-Cola.org? I don't think so. Okay so you add .per,.web,.shop,.art,.whothehellcares Am I going to let you get Coca Cola.foo? Let's see.... hmmm NO!
And then you have the "status" issue, for some reason people think it's cool to have a ".com" JohnDoe.com, GreatGhu.com etc. They they certainly aren't companies...
It think there are only two decent solutions:
1) squash the namespace, no extensions whatsoever 2) fragment it differently. Try something like LDAP or SNMP.
So as Coca Cola I want a lot of people to find me so I buy Earth.MegaCorp.CocaCola and pay dearly for it. Joe Blow's radiators is perfectly happy paying a meager $10 and getting:
Earth.NA.US.CA.SanFrancisco.JoeBlow
That said... Is not the web typically traversed via links from pages you visit (and as a subset, search engines?)
How often does a *lay user* end up typing anything?
Isn't the norm to look for content, not location?
You could also then have a new breed of engine (similar to yahoo? [blechh]) That allows you to search this fragmented namespace...
Slashdot Mirror
What the hell do you think the current system is? http://www.vusd.solanocoe.k12.ca.us/Wood/
Well you can get Titanium Sporks... If you really wanted you could electro-plate it
As long as we have Larry (Wall) and Linus
(Torvalds), I think we'd be just fine.
Seriously, we know what can be done, and (hopefully) what shouldn't be. So it would be much easier. Practically, it wouldn't take very long.
On the other hand you might have lots of Microsoft's and such creating one-of's. Think BETA/VHS/LaserDisc.
Well I can't comment on the utilities etc. other than that's the whole point; UN*Xy and all. But for remote access, what's wrong with SSH? And while where you are at may not have an SSH client, there are many serviceable Java-SSH clients, that you could set up on the same server that you could then browse to and use as necessary.
I use the MH mail maildir format. MH, nmh, xmh, exmh can all handle this. I especially like the fact that it uses the underlying filesystem for structure. You can grep through messages more readily, do misc. file operations on a single message. nmh is available on standard RH 6 disribution media. and easy to find with a search on the web.
Well it sounds like the Cartoon Network had the best commercials. They had wonderful parodies of last year's Monster commercials, recent Volkswagen and GAP ones as well.
this isn't new. SGI's do ASCII feeds off their cams too...
Accessability. And how do you do it? With CSS. (Style sheets, http://w3.org/Style/css/) Just don't go overboard. And don't abuse it. Take moviefone.com for example, their site Is completely illegible for me with CSS enabled. Make sure the site looks decent in at least: Netscape 3, Netscape 4, IE4, IE 5, Lynx. And probably: Opera, Netscape 6/Mozilla. But if you've done things right there really shouldn't be any issues. Above all don't get anal about alignment down to the pixel; this usually becomes an issue when you're miusing images... Out side of that, yes. A killer search facility. It's amazing how many large sites there are that focus so much on flash, java, and other mindless drivel, and provide you with no menas of actually getting at what you need.
Here here! LinSix might work too...
However AMD and Cyrix are still clones of the x86 chips. Same ISA, etc. you certainly don't install Linux or Solaris for SPARC on an AMD. You install i386 etc...
And the inability to get down to pure DOS is nto all, you cannot enter protected mode either. There's nothing wrong with the FS. You just can't get another OS to stomp on top of WinME. BeOS, or linux(loadlin)...
There are a few things wrong with this... 1) Why on earth do you want to volutnatrily give so much power to a company? They don't want it and you're shoving it down their throats. Big Brother as a government is bad enough. But Big Brother as a company? For the most part the demos are capable of pulling down or keeping a government in check when necessary. But what are you going to do to a huge company? Sure Yahoo! isn't huge, but it'd set precedence. 2) Nobody ever had such thoughts about policing cities/states/countries etc. Except within the last few centuries nobody ever "set out" to make a country. And they certainly had no idea of what the hell they were doing. For a better grasp of how large political organizations came about you might want to check out: http://www1.f atbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0393 317552 Guns, Germs and Steel
I'll give you the binaries. The rest can already be done, and while TMTOWTDI is the motto. You'll find people reluctant to replace INTERNAL functionality at the drop of a hat. See the debate over ??= http://www.perl.com/tchrist/defop/defconfaq.html
More domain extensions aren't going to do anything...
.web, .shop, .art, .whothehellcares
Say I'm Coca Cola. Technically I should be using Coca Cola.com. But am I going to let you use
coca-Cola.org? I don't think so. Okay so you add
.per,
Am I going to let you get Coca Cola.foo?
Let's see.... hmmm NO!
And then you have the "status" issue, for some reason people think it's cool to have a ".com"
JohnDoe.com, GreatGhu.com etc. They they certainly aren't companies...
It think there are only two decent solutions:
1) squash the namespace, no extensions whatsoever
2) fragment it differently. Try something like LDAP or SNMP.
So as Coca Cola I want a lot of people to find me
so I buy Earth.MegaCorp.CocaCola and pay dearly for it. Joe Blow's radiators is perfectly happy paying a meager $10 and getting:
Earth.NA.US.CA.SanFrancisco.JoeBlow
That said...
Is not the web typically traversed via links from
pages you visit (and as a subset, search engines?)
How often does a *lay user* end up typing anything?
Isn't the norm to look for content, not location?
You could also then have a new breed of engine
(similar to yahoo? [blechh]) That allows you to search this fragmented namespace...