Epson has been doing this for like, 8 years or more!
Actually, so has HP. Well, maybe not 8 years, but HP has had models available for several years that have separate ink carts and print heads. My OfficeJet 7130 does this trick. Looks like HP is just crowing about a new, cheaper, printhead manufacturing process.
"skeezix-the-cat", I'd suggest some remedial writing courses first. Reading this story nearly made my eyes bleed. I think that a minimum requirement for Ask Slashdot authors should be a 6th grade writing level. Is that really too much to ask?
Here's my secret: I asked for an invite on my local LUG mail list. I had an invite within 4 hours. The lone invite that I've had to give out was posted on the same list.
I usually use some form of this, but always with a bogus tld. Most forms don't check for a valid tld, so I don't have to worry about routing spam to some hapless clod's address that I picked out of thin air.
But isn't it interesting that now when ever anyone appears to support Microsoft, they're automatically suspect of being a MS sock puppet? Years of string-pulling by Bill and Monkeyboy have put wireheads everywhere on alert. Looks like yet another underhanded tactic is backfiring on them.
Or how about this one: "OpenOffice provides no database client support". Really? Then how did I setup a fairly slick front-end to a MySQL database using OOo and ODBC? It's called OpenOffice Forms and even many die-hard OOo fans don't know about it because it's so buried. But it's there.
Oh, and if you don't want a separate back-end database, you can create a dbase database straight from OOo. Check out Tools/Data Sources in your friendly neighborhood OpenOffice install.
Using patent-pending rapid-fire redialing technology, I was able to get through and leave a message. The initial recording said that the voice mail box was full (no surprise), but cheerfully suggested that I try another. Fair enough. I banged in 1111 and left a message there. I gave them my four phone numbers to add to their do not call list.
If some one were to publish this SysV code in a country (server hosted in a country) that does not have copyright laws, then I could see it being helpful to these companies and the general public.
If any of this mess were about old SysV code in Linux, you might be right. But it's really about SCO trying to claim XFS, NUMA, SMP, et. al. as "derivative works" of SysV. That some minor amount of what appears to sorta be SysV code was found in the Linux kernel is just a footnote to this. SCO is punishing SGI because they contributed XFS to the Linux kernel. Moreover, they are attempting to steal Linux through this association of fully-formed components in the Linux kernel, contributed by SysV licensees.
Darl sez: The second development was an admission by Open Source leader Bruce Perens that UNIX System V code (owned by SCO) is, in fact, in Linux, and it shouldn't be there. Mr Perens stated that there is "an error in the Linux developer's process" which allowed Unix System V code that "didn't belong in Linux" to end up in the Linux kernel (source: ComputerWire, August 25, 2003). Mr Perens continued with a string of arguments to justify the "error in the Linux developer's process."
And at the top of Bruce's slide show analysis: You may re-publish this material. You may excerpt it, reformat it and translate it as necessary for your presentation. You may not edit it to deliberately misrepresent my opinion.
Microsoft is not enabling this....Philadelphia is still footing the bill.
Yup, and MS gets to look like a hero for donating their consulting services, which will amount to "Buy Microsoft products". Favorite line from the article:
The company's reward is the opportunity to design a school using technology in every way possible from the ground up - a prototype it could then market.
Yippie. So they want to use a school as a facility to assemble a new product. Glad that they have the kids' best interest in mind!
Except that MS isn't donating any hardware or software according to the linked article. Microsoft's contribution will be consulting and supporting for free. So MS can say "You need to upgrade to MS Server 2005 XP2", but contribute no funds to actually purchase the software.
I work with one of those inner city schools, let me tell you that there are many other ways available to fund technology. The IT manager there applies for and pursues every fund, grant, gift, and loan for technology. He gets many of them. The kids in his district have access to:
Computers in nearly every classroom from elementry to high school. (Nice ones, trust me).
OC-3 Internet access.
Internet 2 access (T3 IIRC).
Lots of tech training for the district's teachers.
Library automation.
Basically, just about everything that a school would need and then some. His kids are well taken care of.
That's pretty much what we thought when Dell did it. There's still little traction for Linux preloaded on major vendor desktops.
I wonder if this isn't at least partially to address some moaning from the corporate sector about having to purchase Windows twice? I've heard that many companies are buying Windows licenses via a licensing program, then buying another license when they purchase the hardware. Is this just an end-run around that, with Linux used as a convenient excuse?
After all of the SCO mess, I must be in conspiracy theory mode.
Slashdot Mirror
Or Treonauts 700p page which now has what they claim is a pulled TechWorld article with crunchy info.
This was covered back in '02 on /. :
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This Place is Not a Place of Honor
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/
Check out the official SANDIA report:
http://infoserve.sandia.gov/sand_doc/1992/921382.
Epson has been doing this for like, 8 years or more!
Actually, so has HP. Well, maybe not 8 years, but HP has had models available for several years that have separate ink carts and print heads. My OfficeJet 7130 does this trick. Looks like HP is just crowing about a new, cheaper, printhead manufacturing process.
"skeezix-the-cat", I'd suggest some remedial writing courses first. Reading this story nearly made my eyes bleed. I think that a minimum requirement for Ask Slashdot authors should be a 6th grade writing level. Is that really too much to ask?
Samsung has made Palmphones for several years. I carry an i300, which is a generation or two old.
Here's my secret: I asked for an invite on my local LUG mail list. I had an invite within 4 hours. The lone invite that I've had to give out was posted on the same list.
Notes. Don't forget Notes (although some wish that they could).
I usually use some form of this, but always with a bogus tld. Most forms don't check for a valid tld, so I don't have to worry about routing spam to some hapless clod's address that I picked out of thin air.
I run my hacked IA-1 appliance from 16MB Compact Flash using Midori Linux. Sadly, I think the distro is dead now.
Your best bet is to try Knoppix, assuming you have a CD-ROM.
But isn't it interesting that now when ever anyone appears to support Microsoft, they're automatically suspect of being a MS sock puppet? Years of string-pulling by Bill and Monkeyboy have put wireheads everywhere on alert. Looks like yet another underhanded tactic is backfiring on them.
Or how about this one: "OpenOffice provides no database client support". Really? Then how did I setup a fairly slick front-end to a MySQL database using OOo and ODBC? It's called OpenOffice Forms and even many die-hard OOo fans don't know about it because it's so buried. But it's there.
Oh, and if you don't want a separate back-end database, you can create a dbase database straight from OOo. Check out Tools/Data Sources in your friendly neighborhood OpenOffice install.
OK, so now can Novell get their own topic? Please? I mean, Corel still has their own topic.
Throw us old Novell guys a bone willya?
CAN-SPAM isn't all bad. It's given me another filter to put into SpamAssassin.
"CAN-SPAM compliant?" Suuure. Bit-bucket time.
Holy hell man, my mouse only has one wheel - I can't see where they'd put the other two...
Why, the bottom, of course.
Lewis Wilson was the first actor to portray Batman in the 1943 serial.
I tried to find a decent link, but this was the best I could do.
British-made spacecraft? Damn, that's gonna be impossible to find parts for.
Darl consents to be publically sodomized by the IBM executive of your choice
Ugh, I thought we were talking about IBM winning.
Using patent-pending rapid-fire redialing technology, I was able to get through and leave a message. The initial recording said that the voice mail box was full (no surprise), but cheerfully suggested that I try another. Fair enough. I banged in 1111 and left a message there. I gave them my four phone numbers to add to their do not call list.
Keep dialing!
If some one were to publish this SysV code in a country (server hosted in a country) that does not have copyright laws, then I could see it being helpful to these companies and the general public.
If any of this mess were about old SysV code in Linux, you might be right. But it's really about SCO trying to claim XFS, NUMA, SMP, et. al. as "derivative works" of SysV. That some minor amount of what appears to sorta be SysV code was found in the Linux kernel is just a footnote to this. SCO is punishing SGI because they contributed XFS to the Linux kernel. Moreover, they are attempting to steal Linux through this association of fully-formed components in the Linux kernel, contributed by SysV licensees.
Darl sez: The second development was an admission by Open Source leader Bruce Perens that UNIX System V code (owned by SCO) is, in fact, in Linux, and it shouldn't be there. Mr Perens stated that there is "an error in the Linux developer's process" which allowed Unix System V code that "didn't belong in Linux" to end up in the Linux kernel (source: ComputerWire, August 25, 2003). Mr Perens continued with a string of arguments to justify the "error in the Linux developer's process."
But Bruce actually said: In this case, there was an error in the Linux developer's process (at SGI), and we lucked out that it wasn't worse. It turns out that we have a legal right to use the code in question, but it doesn't belong in Linux and has been removed.
And at the top of Bruce's slide show analysis: You may re-publish this material. You may excerpt it, reformat it and translate it as necessary for your presentation. You may not edit it to deliberately misrepresent my opinion.
Get 'em Bruce!
http://support.novell.com/
Does she look familiar?
Microsoft is not enabling this. ...Philadelphia is still footing the bill.
Yup, and MS gets to look like a hero for donating their consulting services, which will amount to "Buy Microsoft products". Favorite line from the article:
The company's reward is the opportunity to design a school using technology in every way possible from the ground up - a prototype it could then market.
Yippie. So they want to use a school as a facility to assemble a new product. Glad that they have the kids' best interest in mind!
$50m worth of hardware is $50m worth of hardware
Except that MS isn't donating any hardware or software according to the linked article. Microsoft's contribution will be consulting and supporting for free. So MS can say "You need to upgrade to MS Server 2005 XP2", but contribute no funds to actually purchase the software.
I work with one of those inner city schools, let me tell you that there are many other ways available to fund technology. The IT manager there applies for and pursues every fund, grant, gift, and loan for technology. He gets many of them. The kids in his district have access to:
Computers in nearly every classroom from elementry to high school. (Nice ones, trust me).
OC-3 Internet access.
Internet 2 access (T3 IIRC).
Lots of tech training for the district's teachers.
Library automation.
Basically, just about everything that a school would need and then some. His kids are well taken care of.
That's pretty much what we thought when Dell did it. There's still little traction for Linux preloaded on major vendor desktops.
I wonder if this isn't at least partially to address some moaning from the corporate sector about having to purchase Windows twice? I've heard that many companies are buying Windows licenses via a licensing program, then buying another license when they purchase the hardware. Is this just an end-run around that, with Linux used as a convenient excuse?
After all of the SCO mess, I must be in conspiracy theory mode.