It really wouldn't cost IBM much to make this happen. They'd have to supply Sun with all the low-level hardware details of the p-series tin and maybe a couple of people to answer questions and Sun do all the rest. It'd make sense as a backup plan should the SCO situation turn nasty.... remember, Solaris is "SCO-friendly" since sun paid them a bunch of cash earlier in the year.
Consider this... SCO are arguing that IBM has illegally used some of its IP in AIX. If (and it's a big IF) this is true, and SCO win the court case, IBM is left without a high-end Unix (like) offering. In steps Sun with Solaris and IBM can now continue to sell its high-end boxes with Solaris on them. Sun is happy as it's shifting Solaris licenses, IBM is happy as it doesn't have to maintain AIX, and now has 2 Unix (like) offerings: Linux on the low to mid range machines, and Solaris on the high-end.
I've also got H2G2 on audio book read by DA, but found his voice very hard to listen to for almost 5 hours... just seemed to give me a headache. Maybe it's just this recording (from audible.com) or the shitty iPod headphone... but I after about half an hour of H2G2 I have to go take a lie down.
I'm sure his voice just used for a single part will be fine though.
That wasn't on the page on Monday, and 3 days was the availability. Here's a copy of the email received this morning notifying me of the change in availability:
Dear Apple Store Customer,
Thank you for shopping at the Apple Store.
We received your order for an AirPort Express Base Station. Unfortunately we cannot meet the previously estimated ship date for this product and we now expect to ship your order in mid-July.
Your business is very important to us, and we apologise for any inconvenience that this change may cause.
If for any reason you would like to discuss your order, please contact us at Freephone 0800 39 10 10 or uk.consumer@euro.apple.com.
Answers to many post-sales questions can be found at the Apple Store Customer Service website: http://promo.euro.apple.com/promo/help/uk/consumer
Oh great, iTunes 4.6 is out, but now Apple are having problems fulfilling orders for the Airport Express units that make use of the new features. I ordered 2 on Monday (from the UK Apple Store) with an estimated ship time of 3 days. Received an email this morning telling me that it's going to be mid-July before they will be available.
Anyone know a reason why? Too many orders? Problems with the unit? Announced too early?
...we've had realtime traffic updates for a while now: TrafficMaster (Another). It updates every few minutes onto a small portable device in my car. When coupled with a Sat-Nav system, it's quite easy to avoid major traffic jams.
It's highly unlikely that the UK Government will implement a system to control the speed of drivers as they make far too much money from speeding fines.
The smell of burning cows is not nice at all... A few years ago in the UK we had mass culling of cows due to "Mad Cow" and they burnt 1000's of the dead carcases a few miles away from my home. You could smell the stench for miles around, 24 hours a day for a few weeks.
Also, it's $50/year/user, but to get that pricing you have to have a Java Enterprise System (JES) subscription (which is $100/user/year, making it $150/user/year for JES + JDS).
What's not immediately clear is the fact that you must license 100 users as a minimum, making a minimum investment of $150,000/year! I spoke to Jonathan Schwartz shortly after all of this was announced and he confirmed the minimum requirement, but didn't rule out changing (reducing) it in the future.
This seems to be perfectly true... unless there is a minimum licensing deal somewhere in the small print, a single employee company can get the whole lot for $100/year
Even more of a bargin if that single employee is a developer as for $5 more they give you the Java Enterprise Studio (development tools).
I can just see large hosting companies spinning off new organisations with just a single employee but then serving 1000s of clients through that company.... surely Sun have thought about that sort of loophole!
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...and if it's being /.'ed then it'd turn a rather nasty brown colour! ;-)
It really wouldn't cost IBM much to make this happen. They'd have to supply Sun with all the low-level hardware details of the p-series tin and maybe a couple of people to answer questions and Sun do all the rest. It'd make sense as a backup plan should the SCO situation turn nasty.... remember, Solaris is "SCO-friendly" since sun paid them a bunch of cash earlier in the year.
Maybe oracle is helping fund this effort??
Maybe, just maybe, IBM also has a hand in it...
Consider this...
SCO are arguing that IBM has illegally used some of its IP in AIX. If (and it's a big IF) this is true, and SCO win the court case, IBM is left without a high-end Unix (like) offering. In steps Sun with Solaris and IBM can now continue to sell its high-end boxes with Solaris on them. Sun is happy as it's shifting Solaris licenses, IBM is happy as it doesn't have to maintain AIX, and now has 2 Unix (like) offerings: Linux on the low to mid range machines, and Solaris on the high-end.
Just a thought!
Surely the best cooking sim of all time is Mr Wimpy on the Spectrum.
I've also got H2G2 on audio book read by DA, but found his voice very hard to listen to for almost 5 hours... just seemed to give me a headache. Maybe it's just this recording (from audible.com) or the shitty iPod headphone... but I after about half an hour of H2G2 I have to go take a lie down.
I'm sure his voice just used for a single part will be fine though.
That wasn't on the page on Monday, and 3 days was the availability. Here's a copy of the email received this morning notifying me of the change in availability:
Just checked my order confirmation, definitely says "Est Build Time" is 3 days.
Oh great, iTunes 4.6 is out, but now Apple are having problems fulfilling orders for the Airport Express units that make use of the new features. I ordered 2 on Monday (from the UK Apple Store) with an estimated ship time of 3 days. Received an email this morning telling me that it's going to be mid-July before they will be available.
Anyone know a reason why? Too many orders? Problems with the unit? Announced too early?
I'd write the custom software for free... just as long as they paid me a decent hourly rate to drink coffee while I was doing it! ;-)
This is obviously untrue.... have you ever heard of a student with a clean sock? ;-)
...the following frequencies are in use:
- 1800 - Orange
- 1800 - T-Mobile (and Virgin)
- 900 - Vodaphone
- 900 - mm02 (Cellnet)
The new 3G network "3" uses something else as well as piggy-backing on the mm02 network when there's no signal on their own.Headbangers Heaven - 198? on the ZX Spectrum
Ooops,...must eat less beef! Moooo! ;-)
It's highly unlikely that the UK Government will implement a system to control the speed of drivers as they make far too much money from speeding fines.
...and Insurance Premium Tax on their car insurance.
...and VAT (17.5%) when you buy a car.
The smell of burning cows is not nice at all... A few years ago in the UK we had mass culling of cows due to "Mad Cow" and they burnt 1000's of the dead carcases a few miles away from my home. You could smell the stench for miles around, 24 hours a day for a few weeks.
Looks like the announcement has been delayed a little as I've had the OpenBSD3.4 CDs for over a week now, ordered from the OpenBSD online store!
It was 100 as a minimum... that'll teach me to attempt math before my 6th expresso! ;-)
Also, it's $50/year/user, but to get that pricing you have to have a Java Enterprise System (JES) subscription (which is $100/user/year, making it $150/user/year for JES + JDS).
What's not immediately clear is the fact that you must license 100 users as a minimum, making a minimum investment of $150,000/year! I spoke to Jonathan Schwartz shortly after all of this was announced and he confirmed the minimum requirement, but didn't rule out changing (reducing) it in the future.
MS could still distribute the GPL'd module, they just couldn't integrate it into their codebase without GPL'ing the whole lot.
They already do something similar with their Services for UNIX product.
Give me your address and I'll send you all of mine... about 300/day! :-(
This seems to be perfectly true... unless there is a minimum licensing deal somewhere in the small print, a single employee company can get the whole lot for $100/year
Even more of a bargin if that single employee is a developer as for $5 more they give you the Java Enterprise Studio (development tools).
I can just see large hosting companies spinning off new organisations with just a single employee but then serving 1000s of clients through that company.... surely Sun have thought about that sort of loophole!
I'm similarly disgusted at the omission of BrainFuck... come on Apple, what are you playing at? We developers demand support for more languages.
...and any comments about your boxers containing a WORM will be ignored! ;-)