At the county court house where I used to work, our AS/400 speaks both SNA (Twinax Cables for dumb terminals) and TCP/IP (on Token Ring -- soon changing to Ethernet) for PC workstations. *However* on OS/400 Release 3, (and up to R4V2) Device Naming is not supported over TCP/IP. This kills a number of important features, and makes printing harder (requires LPD). So they run special software (SNA Router) to access the SNA features. So yes, SNA is still needed, even when it runs encapsulated over TCP/IP.
In the movie 'Eraser', (w/ Arnold Schwarzenegger), I believe, there was an Evil Company named Cyrex. After Cyrix complained, the name changed to something else.
They have to defend trademarks against dilution, but I don't believe the same is true of copyright. If they can prove it's theirs, they can sue anyone anywhere and win, whether or not they previously defended it. That's cause trademarks are small, i.e. "You've Got Mail" (tm Amreica on Lien [AOL]), and are harder to prove it's yours. Lines of text, code, or music are a lot easier to prove they are yours.
I remember my Grandpa had built a Nybbler out of a kit from Digi-Key (the electronics distributor) back in the 70's. Back then, nobody had heard of Digi-Key, except for us, since my mom used to work there. We don't have the Nybbler anymore, since my grandpa died in 1984, and most of his electronics equipment (like his homebrew oscilliscope, and the Radio-Electronics TV Typewriter) got thrown out. I still have his TRS-80 Model III, tho... (It needs a new video tube! Anyone have one?)
I like it 'cause I bought a DVD drive & decoder for $70, and just run the AV cables to my TV, which is right next to my PC anyway. And $70 is cheaper than $250.
I knew something didn't feel right when they started having online auctions. Now I know they are more focused on selling whatever crap they can push than on selling books.
Maybe the kid didn't "hotwire" the car? It's possible that the guy at the store just made up the part about having the wires disconnected, so as to seem like a "victim" rather than a "contributor".
Decades? I doubt it. We'll run out of IPv4 addresses before that...
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Ah, yes, I remember the teacher reading it when I was in fourth grade. I think we made penguin drawings too. And the icebox -- that would be the problem. You'd have to keep them climate controlled. I don't think the penguins would like it much here. It's 10:23 pm and still 80F. (Of course, many winters it gets down to -40F (-40C) too! -- Thats probably too cold!) BTW, I live in northwestern MN.
went something like this. (Laser hologram sputters, goes out.) [Army General] "Damn, it's Windows 98!" (Drags Bill Gates in). [AG] "I thought you said Windows 98 was a faster easier way to the internet... (etc)" [Bill Gates] "But Windows 98 IS a faster and" !!BLAM!! (Bill falls to the floor dead.)
All in all a great movie. They really made it feel like a Disney movie. I didn't expect all the disney musical stuff, but I enjoyed it anyways.
If you've seen the movie, it's really kind of ironic to hear people complaining about the gratuitous vulgarity in the movie!
I really didn't mean zealotry was an excuse to bash a certain OS, nor was I condoning bashing an OS based on its more outspoken followers. I just meant it as an explanation as to WHY people do bash them....
There is still a fundamental problem when a user level process can bring about a kernel panic. Something is wrong here. It brings into question apple's ability to (re)write a Unix. And that's why people start bashing.
I think anyone who is vehement about the OS they use is liable for an attack. While Linux users can certainly be fanatical, they usually argue valid points. Working with both Linux and MacOS devotees, I find that the Linux credo is "Windows crashes, is insecure, and is way slower - Linux fixes all of these problems." Which, I believe, is true -- but the linux user is only bringing up the good points of linux, not, say, the fact that it may be harder to configure, or it doesn't run as well on 4-way SMP as NT. On the other hand, Mac users that I know like to say "Windows 95 is a blatant ripoff MacOS 84 and its slower because tests show the G3 233 is faster than a Pentium II 400 and the iMac is gaining popularity and will bring apple back to power once again." Apple and MS both ripped off the Xerox Parc, though MS certainly may have cashed in on the gaining popularity of the mac. And the CPU speed test only works in certain photoshop operations. Dollar-for-dollar, and often MHz-for-MHz, Intel compatible machines are just as fast and often faster. And the iMac, well, let me use just one word: sheep. I think that Apple is more open to attack too because they have decided to use a Unix to replace their own OS. If Microsoft had taken Windows, thrown in out the window, and replaced it with a free Unix, they would certainly never hear the end of it, with comments like "they screwed up their own OS, and so they have to start over with unix, now I suppose they'll screw that up too." Which is what many people probably think when they hear that Apple has built a screwed-up Unix that allows a user-level process to cause a kernel panic. Finally, I think MacOS is more bashed because of the attitude of Apple, and the cult that they have created with Mac users. Unlike Linux, where people are convinced of Linux's superiority by seeing its strengths on their own, Mac users believe Macs and MacOS are superior because Apple got them to believe it is so. And when Apple starts doing that, they create a closed-off community of people believe that it's "their way or no way." Apple has created a cult of personality. They have some people so entrenched into the idea of Mac superiority, they can't even begin to see out of the trench to any other OS. Apple did this by making Mac users feel good in their decision to buy a Mac and casting everyone else as an outsider. So why do we attack certain OSes? Specifically MacOS? Because certain vocal Mac users like to spread their own brand of propaganda, MacFUD if you will, and it gets other people, such as Linux and Windows users, annoyed enough to emphasize and, in this case, over-emphasize, the faults of the MacOS.
That's not the point, silly. Would you really rather have your box kernel panic than slow to a crawl, and have to reboot it? If so, I think you need Windows NT. Because any time you have a kernel panic, it's indicative of PROBLEMS FAR MORE SERIOUS than just a heavy load on a machine. No respectable UNIX would ever allow a kernel panic as some part of normal operations. Some of this machines run for years on end. A kernel panic just isn't an easy way out! It's a sign that means: THERE ARE BIG PROBLEMS HERE. The only time I've ever seen a Unix box kernel panic was with faulty hardware.
How does Google plan to make any money? Are they going to come up with a simple search interface that works well and gets people hooked, then one day ambush us with ads in every corner of the screen? Or is there another plan?
Actually, this sounds worse than the USA plan, possibly. The US CDA only outlawed "Obscenity" transmitted to minors or to people who weren't expecting obscenity. Indecency (hazy legal area I know) was never prohibited. And the stated intent of the law wasn't to prohibit adults from accessing obscenity (though I'm sure Strom Thurmond would want to prohibit adults too...)
Actually, some italian guy wrote a shareware program called FullScreen for Netscape that does just what IE does, plus a little more. It's only for Windows, though, I think.
I'm a HS senior, 3 days from graduating, and I live in a rural area in northwestern Minnesota. I go to a small HS, only 250 people. We have at least one computer in every classroom (mostly K63-400s). Most teachers use it for grades, but they all have to use it for things like attendance reporting and daily announcements. The teachers send attendance for each period to the office. They also read the daily announcements off of the intranet web page.
Students get a chance to use a computer at least one period a day (plus homeroom). Some classrooms have mini-labs (~10 PCs). They are actually one-piece (monitor+CPU) 386 machines connected to an NT terminal server (Dual PII450 w/328mb RAM, 18gb disk). The library has about 12 PCs for student use (6 Terminal Server machines, 6 P-75s). There is also a 20-machine computer lab with 20 more P75s. In the main computer lab there are 25 P200MMXes and 2 PII400s (for video editing). Students in certain groups (such as National Honor Society, etc.) get mail messages to their personal mail accounts. We use MS Word 97 and WordPerfect 8 for writing reports. They teach Word, Excel, Accounting, Cisco Networking, and next year Computer Literacy (from A-Plus), and Computer Hardware (also A-Plus.) (After the Cisco class, I plan on taking the test to get my CCNA.) The shop teacher also teaches AutoCAD, and computer based robotics, CNC milling, and electronics. Students do research for most classes on the internet. We have subscriptions to a few online research services too. The science classes have computer based physics and chemistry experiments (data acquisition stuff). The biology classes also track migrating birds with data from a local wildlife refuge and then they plot the data using ArcView. We have a service called NovaNet with online curriculum on almost any subject. It has tests and grades student progress online too. (I am taking Russian on it right now.) We can also go on the internet whenever we want, from any PC.
This summer, we will be installing (thanks to e-rate) a full-duplex switched 100Mbps (200Mpbs Full Duplex) ethernet, replacing our current token ring system. We will be adding a new Compaq server (Dual PII450) with NetWare 5. (Though I may convince them to use Linux instead.) We are putting in Cisco 100Mbps switches (two at the highschool and one at the elementary, with fiber connecting the buildings) so each machine will have a dedicated switch port. The e-rate paid for 70% of the switches and rewiring. The rest (the other 30% and all the other equipment) is paid for by the school district.
All in all we have about 75 PCs for 250 students. Since most are in labs or the library, basically anyone can use a PC whenever they need to. (During class, homeroom or after school.) We also have a T1 to the internet, 48GB of server storage space, 14 served CD-ROM drives, a PII-233 web server, and a MetaFrame terminal server (8 servers in all).
The only software we've bought is MS and WordPerfect office for the whole school, a few copies of AutoCAD, some grading software, MetaFrame, and video editing software. Our ArcView software was donated. Most of our computer budget goes into hardware...
I live on a farm, tho, my family hasn't farmed for a couple of years now. We used to have cattle and wheat and barley. "Terminator" seeds are nothing too revolutionary. Companies have been producing hybrid plants that won't reproduce for years. Sunflowers used to point their heads in the direction of the sun[1] , but now, with sunflower hybrids, they always point in one direction. And some nonsense a few comments back about "farmers feeding all their animals antibiotics" is just silly. The only genetic mucking about most farmers ever do is artificial insemination. [1] True! The plants grow so fast that the side facing the sun grows fast enough so that the sunflowers yellow head always (used to) face the sun. Or so my dad (42yr) says. I'm only 18 and have never seen that in my lifetime.
I admit, I didn't get all of the jokes right away. (I still think a gyro-mouse is a pretty good idea...). But it didn't make me mad when I found out they were jokes. So what, if you don't think it's funny, then move on! Don't flame Rob, or post some drivel about how you thought Slashdot was supposed to be a "legitimate" news site. Read under Slashdot in the title - it says "News for _Nerds_." Nerds used to have a sense of humour. Like the cruiser on the MIT dome, the USSR joining the (then-young) Internet, toplevel domains for other planets, and so on. It seems like there are a lot of whiny posts about "It's not real news! It's a travesty!" If you want real news 365 days a year, read Jesse Berst's Anchordesk Alert or something. If you have a sense of humour, then read Slashdot. I'm glad at least some nerds still have a sense of humour.
If you read the article, you'll notice telepizza is out of Madrid. When I was in Madrid last June I ordered a pizza from TelePizza (the one somewhere between Principe Pio station and the Palacio Real). All the pizzadeliverers ride on little motorscooters. It's much more efficient than driving a big beast like a Renault or Ford Escort (Both real popular there.) The scooters can drive between lanes of traffic, and they always make it right to the front at every stop light. You can get pizza (Including Pizza Hut), Chinese Food, and just a regular lunch delivered by una moto. It's not as fast as the two minutes at the vending machine, but it is a lot faster.
But Wait! There could be hidden code somewhere in the English in the document. Instead, use babelfish to translate the document into German and then back into English again! Voilà!
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At the county court house where I used to work, our AS/400 speaks both SNA (Twinax Cables for dumb terminals) and TCP/IP (on Token Ring -- soon changing to Ethernet) for PC workstations. *However* on OS/400 Release 3, (and up to R4V2) Device Naming is not supported over TCP/IP. This kills a number of important features, and makes printing harder (requires LPD). So they run special software (SNA Router) to access the SNA features. So yes, SNA is still needed, even when it runs encapsulated over TCP/IP.
Spell Check: balloOn.
In the movie 'Eraser', (w/ Arnold Schwarzenegger), I believe, there was an Evil Company named Cyrex. After Cyrix complained, the name changed to something else.
They have to defend trademarks against dilution, but I don't believe the same is true of copyright. If they can prove it's theirs, they can sue anyone anywhere and win, whether or not they previously defended it. That's cause trademarks are small, i.e. "You've Got Mail" (tm Amreica on Lien [AOL]), and are harder to prove it's yours. Lines of text, code, or music are a lot easier to prove they are yours.
Thinking back to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... Who was Trillian again? Was she Zaphod's something-or-another? I can't remember anymore...
I remember my Grandpa had built a Nybbler out of a kit from Digi-Key (the electronics distributor) back in the 70's. Back then, nobody had heard of Digi-Key, except for us, since my mom used to work there. We don't have the Nybbler anymore, since my grandpa died in 1984, and most of his electronics equipment (like his homebrew oscilliscope, and the Radio-Electronics TV Typewriter) got thrown out. I still have his TRS-80 Model III, tho... (It needs a new video tube! Anyone have one?)
I like it 'cause I bought a DVD drive & decoder for $70, and just run the AV cables to my TV, which is right next to my PC anyway. And $70 is cheaper than $250.
I knew something didn't feel right when they started having online auctions. Now I know they are more focused on selling whatever crap they can push than on selling books.
Maybe the kid didn't "hotwire" the car? It's possible that the guy at the store just made up the part about having the wires disconnected, so as to seem like a "victim" rather than a "contributor".
'Course, it's just a thought...
Decades? I doubt it. We'll run out of IPv4 addresses before that...
Ah, yes, I remember the teacher reading it when I was in fourth grade. I think we made penguin drawings too. And the icebox -- that would be the problem. You'd have to keep them climate controlled. I don't think the penguins would like it much here. It's 10:23 pm and still 80F. (Of course, many winters it gets down to -40F (-40C) too! -- Thats probably too cold!) BTW, I live in northwestern MN.
went something like this. (Laser hologram sputters, goes out.) [Army General] "Damn, it's Windows 98!" (Drags Bill Gates in). [AG] "I thought you said Windows 98 was a faster easier way to the internet... (etc)" [Bill Gates] "But Windows 98 IS a faster and" !!BLAM!! (Bill falls to the floor dead.)
All in all a great movie. They really made it feel like a Disney movie. I didn't expect all the disney musical stuff, but I enjoyed it anyways.
If you've seen the movie, it's really kind of ironic to hear people complaining about the gratuitous vulgarity in the movie!
Great Flick!
I really didn't mean zealotry was an excuse to bash a certain OS, nor was I condoning bashing an OS based on its more outspoken followers. I just meant it as an explanation as to WHY people do bash them....
There is still a fundamental problem when a user level process can bring about a kernel panic. Something is wrong here. It brings into question apple's ability to (re)write a Unix. And that's why people start bashing.
I think anyone who is vehement about the OS they use is liable for an attack. While Linux users can certainly be fanatical, they usually argue valid points. Working with both Linux and MacOS devotees, I find that the Linux credo is "Windows crashes, is insecure, and is way slower - Linux fixes all of these problems." Which, I believe, is true -- but the linux user is only bringing up the good points of linux, not, say, the fact that it may be harder to configure, or it doesn't run as well on 4-way SMP as NT. On the other hand, Mac users that I know like to say "Windows 95 is a blatant ripoff MacOS 84 and its slower because tests show the G3 233 is faster than a Pentium II 400 and the iMac is gaining popularity and will bring apple back to power once again." Apple and MS both ripped off the Xerox Parc, though MS certainly may have cashed in on the gaining popularity of the mac. And the CPU speed test only works in certain photoshop operations. Dollar-for-dollar, and often MHz-for-MHz, Intel compatible machines are just as fast and often faster. And the iMac, well, let me use just one word: sheep. I think that Apple is more open to attack too because they have decided to use a Unix to replace their own OS. If Microsoft had taken Windows, thrown in out the window, and replaced it with a free Unix, they would certainly never hear the end of it, with comments like "they screwed up their own OS, and so they have to start over with unix, now I suppose they'll screw that up too." Which is what many people probably think when they hear that Apple has built a screwed-up Unix that allows a user-level process to cause a kernel panic. Finally, I think MacOS is more bashed because of the attitude of Apple, and the cult that they have created with Mac users. Unlike Linux, where people are convinced of Linux's superiority by seeing its strengths on their own, Mac users believe Macs and MacOS are superior because Apple got them to believe it is so. And when Apple starts doing that, they create a closed-off community of people believe that it's "their way or no way." Apple has created a cult of personality. They have some people so entrenched into the idea of Mac superiority, they can't even begin to see out of the trench to any other OS. Apple did this by making Mac users feel good in their decision to buy a Mac and casting everyone else as an outsider. So why do we attack certain OSes? Specifically MacOS? Because certain vocal Mac users like to spread their own brand of propaganda, MacFUD if you will, and it gets other people, such as Linux and Windows users, annoyed enough to emphasize and, in this case, over-emphasize, the faults of the MacOS.
That's not the point, silly. Would you really rather have your box kernel panic than slow to a crawl, and have to reboot it? If so, I think you need Windows NT. Because any time you have a kernel panic, it's indicative of PROBLEMS FAR MORE SERIOUS than just a heavy load on a machine. No respectable UNIX would ever allow a kernel panic as some part of normal operations. Some of this machines run for years on end. A kernel panic just isn't an easy way out! It's a sign that means: THERE ARE BIG PROBLEMS HERE. The only time I've ever seen a Unix box kernel panic was with faulty hardware.
How does Google plan to make any money? Are they going to come up with a simple search interface that works well and gets people hooked, then one day ambush us with ads in every corner of the screen? Or is there another plan?
Actually, this sounds worse than the USA plan, possibly. The US CDA only outlawed "Obscenity" transmitted to minors or to people who weren't expecting obscenity. Indecency (hazy legal area I know) was never prohibited. And the stated intent of the law wasn't to prohibit adults from accessing obscenity (though I'm sure Strom Thurmond would want to prohibit adults too...)
Actually, some italian guy wrote a shareware program called FullScreen for Netscape that does just what IE does, plus a little more. It's only for Windows, though, I think.
I'm a HS senior, 3 days from graduating, and I live in a rural area in northwestern Minnesota. I go to a small HS, only 250 people. We have at least one computer in every classroom (mostly K63-400s). Most teachers use it for grades, but they all have to use it for things like attendance reporting and daily announcements. The teachers send attendance for each period to the office. They also read the daily announcements off of the intranet web page.
Students get a chance to use a computer at least one period a day (plus homeroom). Some classrooms have mini-labs (~10 PCs). They are actually one-piece (monitor+CPU) 386 machines connected to an NT terminal server (Dual PII450 w/328mb RAM, 18gb disk). The library has about 12 PCs for student use (6 Terminal Server machines, 6 P-75s). There is also a 20-machine computer lab with 20 more P75s. In the main computer lab there are 25 P200MMXes and 2 PII400s (for video editing). Students in certain groups (such as National Honor Society, etc.) get mail messages to their personal mail accounts. We use MS Word 97 and WordPerfect 8 for writing reports. They teach Word, Excel, Accounting, Cisco Networking, and next year Computer Literacy (from A-Plus), and Computer Hardware (also A-Plus.) (After the Cisco class, I plan on taking the test to get my CCNA.) The shop teacher also teaches AutoCAD, and computer based robotics, CNC milling, and electronics. Students do research for most classes on the internet. We have subscriptions to a few online research services too. The science classes have computer based physics and chemistry experiments (data acquisition stuff). The biology classes also track migrating birds with data from a local wildlife refuge and then they plot the data using ArcView. We have a service called NovaNet with online curriculum on almost any subject. It has tests and grades student progress online too. (I am taking Russian on it right now.) We can also go on the internet whenever we want, from any PC.
This summer, we will be installing (thanks to e-rate) a full-duplex switched 100Mbps (200Mpbs Full Duplex) ethernet, replacing our current token ring system. We will be adding a new Compaq server (Dual PII450) with NetWare 5. (Though I may convince them to use Linux instead.) We are putting in Cisco 100Mbps switches (two at the highschool and one at the elementary, with fiber connecting the buildings) so each machine will have a dedicated switch port. The e-rate paid for 70% of the switches and rewiring. The rest (the other 30% and all the other equipment) is paid for by the school district.
All in all we have about 75 PCs for 250 students. Since most are in labs or the library, basically anyone can use a PC whenever they need to. (During class, homeroom or after school.) We also have a T1 to the internet, 48GB of server storage space, 14 served CD-ROM drives, a PII-233 web server, and a MetaFrame terminal server (8 servers in all).
The only software we've bought is MS and WordPerfect office for the whole school, a few copies of AutoCAD, some grading software, MetaFrame, and video editing software. Our ArcView software was donated. Most of our computer budget goes into hardware...
Andy
I live on a farm, tho, my family hasn't farmed for a couple of years now. We used to have cattle and wheat and barley. "Terminator" seeds are nothing too revolutionary. Companies have been producing hybrid plants that won't reproduce for years. Sunflowers used to point their heads in the direction of the sun[1] , but now, with sunflower hybrids, they always point in one direction. And some nonsense a few comments back about "farmers feeding all their animals antibiotics" is just silly. The only genetic mucking about most farmers ever do is artificial insemination. [1] True! The plants grow so fast that the side facing the sun grows fast enough so that the sunflowers yellow head always (used to) face the sun. Or so my dad (42yr) says. I'm only 18 and have never seen that in my lifetime.
I admit, I didn't get all of the jokes right away. (I still think a gyro-mouse is a pretty good idea...). But it didn't make me mad when I found out they were jokes. So what, if you don't think it's funny, then move on! Don't flame Rob, or post some drivel about how you thought Slashdot was supposed to be a "legitimate" news site. Read under Slashdot in the title - it says "News for _Nerds_." Nerds used to have a sense of humour. Like the cruiser on the MIT dome, the USSR joining the (then-young) Internet, toplevel domains for other planets, and so on. It seems like there are a lot of whiny posts about "It's not real news! It's a travesty!" If you want real news 365 days a year, read Jesse Berst's Anchordesk Alert or something. If you have a sense of humour, then read Slashdot. I'm glad at least some nerds still have a sense of humour.
If you read the article, you'll notice telepizza is out of Madrid. When I was in Madrid last June I ordered a pizza from TelePizza (the one somewhere between Principe Pio station and the Palacio Real). All the pizzadeliverers ride on little motorscooters. It's much more efficient than driving a big beast like a Renault or Ford Escort (Both real popular there.) The scooters can drive between lanes of traffic, and they always make it right to the front at every stop light. You can get pizza (Including Pizza Hut), Chinese Food, and just a regular lunch delivered by una moto. It's not as fast as the two minutes at the vending machine, but it is a lot faster.
But Wait! There could be hidden code somewhere in the English in the document. Instead, use babelfish to translate the document into German and then back into English again! Voilà!