Of course you realize that now is the time to buy stock in Microsoft. This will give you the opportunity to own stock in three future software companies. I truly believe that, separated, the various components won't be tied to the same "rules of engagement" and we'll start to see applications ported to other platforms and might even see an improvement in the quailty. In the short term they'll still carry the old loyalties. In the long term, each company will start to diverge from the old ideals and we'll see some pretty cool stuff come out of them *finally*. -- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
It might be interesting to see how Microsoft reacts to this. I understand they offered a great deal of money for linux.com when it was for sale. I was recently at the Boeing/Microsoft technical lookahead and they see Sun as their primary competitor. Perhaps Unix.com is in their strategic plan. Sounds like Sun should be the primary customer for this... --
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I almost think the cash and prizes were a good thing. If you wanted the cash and prizes, you couldn't be anonymous. -- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
I used to belong to the Omicron project. The guy running it (James Tracy) was kinda weird though. He would dump the mailing list every so often and make people re-join. Once he even required us all to sign some secrecy waiver in order to get back on the list. He even dropped out of the project once because his wife threatened divorce. Over time I came to realize that James Tracy wasn't really interested in a community sort of project, what he really wanted was for us to work for him for free. (James if you're reading this, I have all of the old e-mail's to prove the above statements). It was too difficult to follow the project so I just lost track. -- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
At first I figured this would be a well reasoned article that presented some good food for thought. This is what I read instead (Imagine if you will, kids arguing on the playground):
Kid 1: "My dad says your operating system is stupid because the source code is available."
Kid 2: "Yeah, my dad said the same thing."
Kid 3: "Yeah, mine too."
Kid 4: "Well my dad makes operating systems (so he must be an expert) and he agrees with you guys."
[Enter the token dissenter]
Dissenter: "What are you talking about, we issue patches to our problems in hours not months. Do you even acknowledge the fact that your operating system HAS problems? I'll be the first to admit there are flaws in my operating system, that's the best way of getting them fixed..."
All kids: "Let's kick his ass!"
-- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
In the event that Iridium service becomes unavailable, we would be happy to talk to you about other possible communications solutions.
Well the reason I would have one of these phones is because I'm going someplace that doesn't have phones. So how the heck am I supposed to talk to them about my service being unavailable?
-- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
Weeeellllllll, they do have all of the free drinks you can handle, but I never saw any food in the freezers. That would have been nice though. -- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
Man that article was frustrating, and I'm not talking about Valenti's ancient answers to new questions. What I'm most frustrated with is the interviewer shying away from the DeCSS debate. He asked one veiled question about it and went on to other topics. I was really hoping that the interviewer would have asked him if he realized that DeCSS would help other people view legally bought DVD's on other platforms and that DVD's can still be copied without DeCSS. -- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
The internet does the same thing. When it hits an area of inherent unreliabilty it routes around it. This is much the same thing that the article was describing and in a general sense results in a lowering of the aggregate computing potential.
It is also apparent from this that the brain values verbal skills over mathematical skills. It makes sense since the brain is simply not evolved enough to have multiple mathematical processing areas. Thak and Groo probably needed communication skills more than they needed the ability to balance their stone checkbook.
The parietal area takes over the verbal skills when the pre-frontal area can't handle them anymore. My guess would be that the pre-frontal area of the brain is so new that it is not fault tolerant yet. It's neat to see this appear in other areas like stroke victims and people with forms of impact brain damage. I'm not a believer in the 10% theory. I feel like we use most of our brains although we have the potential to evolve them to include more and more memories and abilities much like FPGA. When another part of the brain evolves to take over something a damaged part can no longer handle, the overall system loses some proccessing power.
In reality all you really need is the ability to move, communicate on a basic level, go to the bathroom, eat and have sex. The brain seems to protect these functions. Everything else is surplus and gives up its processing power if necessary. Lets face it folks we were born to attract mates and breed:-( This would probably explain why the stupidest among us tend to attract the most mates...
Also, if you do not get enough sleep your "cron" process do not run and your system is left in a messy state, eventually becoming unusable... -- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
I've always been an HP printer bigot only because I've been using them for many years and have had absolutely no problem with them. I've never had so much as a paper jam, which absolutely amazes me now that I think about it. Ok, I did have a paper jam once, but it was my fault. The job wouldn't die so I had to pull the plug, which forced me to have to dig all of the paper out by hand. We just bought an 1100 and absolutely love it. It prints very cleanly, we've made over 1000 prints so far on the same cartridge (Which is not necessarily unusual in itself), it's fast and even prints double sided. There's also an attachment that allows this thing to be turned into a scanner and copier.
My only complaint about the 1100 is that the paper tends to curl on large jobs if you use the "up" feed. You have to either remove the prints as they pile up or change the paper feed to print them flat to the desk. Then again, as long as it's warmed up sufficiently that isn't even a problem. -- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
I especially love the part where they say they did not seek to monopolize the browser market, they simply desired to have everyone use their browser...
I sure would like to have some of what they are smoking there in those legal offices... I wonder if Gates/Balmer ever proofread these things before they go to press... -- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
Actually since it isn't carte blanche, I would guess the NSA reported back that they could now easily crack harder keys. Seems like this is simply a way of raising the bar to keep us happy. IMHO 64 bit keys are now as insecure as 40 bit keys were when they were first allowed to be exported. We can probably expect to see the bar raised like this every year or so.
What we really need is a one line crypto policy:
"No restrictions whatsoever on export of encryption technology".
-- Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux * Education * Integration * Support
Our ISP is shutting down for about three hours. We have no choice but to shut down as well. I have also heard many small colleges and universities are doing the same thing. --
This is what my girlfriend used to say about that World Wide Web thing four years ago. She used to tell me that I was wasting my time with it because it is just going to burn out soon. I teased her constantly this christmas while she was ordering all of her presents online through her happy little ADSL connection.
I also remember Bob Metcalf ranting that the web was going to collapse under it's own weight soon too.
Blah blah blah, the sky is not falling. Go back to your coding, it's just a false alarm... Industry folks like to make these predictions all of the time. It gets them ratings/hits/awards/etc. and gives their PHB's warm fuzzies that they are actually doing something useful. What will keep Linux hot is its own merits, stability, open source, a large application base, rabid support from just about anyone who isn't making money from MSFT (because they are not blinded by the clueless bug) and a highly maleable development model. It's the same thing that turned the web from a hobby toy to a trillion(???) dollar industry. It became useful to the business people. Get a clue folks. If it makes money it's hot... --
Look folks, the only way to combat this is for everyone to distribute copies of this software and associated documentation. Go here and download all of the local files and host them in as many locations as you can. If possible mirror the actual page rather than downloading. Just get them in as many public locations as possible any way you can. Lets make 'em play whack-a-mole.
Remember, one ant won't make a bit of difference, nor will two or three, but millions can overcome any obstacle.
Another issue I am reminded of here is that this is a great experiment by the powers that be. It has long been held that you cannot regulate the internet because it is so distributed and decentralized. If they win, it will be proven that it is easier to control the content of the internet than was previously thought...
It seems that they are an investment firm. Money is their game. Lets do everything in our power to prevent them from ever being able to profit from Linux. Further we can spread the word and prevent them from profiting from any sort of science or art.
Hey, if Amway can spread to the deepest depths of American society, surely this can too. Spread it around. The name Leonardo Investment should make you angry. It should make you want to vent to someone else who will get angry too and want to tell someone else. Eventually all of this bad press will start to have a bad effect on these jokers... --
I always thought if you were sent something in error that you did not order, you could keep it free of charge. I'll bet that the police were called in to intimidate this guy because they knew they didn't have a legal leg to stand on.
Just wanted to thank you all for the lively debate. The world gets a little smaller everytime we all share like this. I feel like the smaller the world is and the better we think we know each other the less likely that there will be someone who wants to take advantage of the situation. When you get right down to it, people are inherently good and living in a small world is a great way to keep people honest. --
Believe it or not, there are distributions that already use stuff that isn't GPL. Red Hat seems to be the most open of them all. Do your research... --
Damn, that profile fits me exactly. I didn't realize I was that dangerous. What next???? Do they revoke my passport because if I traveled to another country that could be considered an "arms export"????? --
There is only one solution to this. Adapt their technology for our own use. To do this we should divide our efforts into two camps.
1. Focus WINE development on getting IE to run on Linux.
2. Focus more efforts on the development of Mozilla.
If we can get IE running on WINE then we might be able to augment the installation of IE and eventually ship a "mini-wine" specifically for IE. My understanding is that there is an HP-UX version of IE which may make it easier to port IE to Linux the "emulator" way. --
Please pay attention to the number of AC posts that support Microsoft. In going through the comments I must say I have never seen so many. Seems that Microsoft anticipated this and mobilized rather quickly.
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Of course you realize that now is the time to buy stock in Microsoft. This will give you the opportunity to own stock in three future software companies. I truly believe that, separated, the various components won't be tied to the same "rules of engagement" and we'll start to see applications ported to other platforms and might even see an improvement in the quailty. In the short term they'll still carry the old loyalties. In the long term, each company will start to diverge from the old ideals and we'll see some pretty cool stuff come out of them *finally*.
--
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* Support
I think the status they have up on the site is the best part:
4/11/2000 1734 PST
We just updated our servers to Windows 2000 Advanced Server... (Note that it is REALLY bold like it's a HUGE selling point).
Fast forward...
5/13/2000
We were HACKED... (Not quite as bold text).
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Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
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It might be interesting to see how Microsoft reacts to this. I understand they offered a great deal of money for linux.com when it was for sale. I was recently at the Boeing/Microsoft technical lookahead and they see Sun as their primary competitor. Perhaps Unix.com is in their strategic plan. Sounds like Sun should be the primary customer for this...
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
I almost think the cash and prizes were a good thing. If you wanted the cash and prizes, you couldn't be anonymous.
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
I used to belong to the Omicron project. The guy running it (James Tracy) was kinda weird though. He would dump the mailing list every so often and make people re-join. Once he even required us all to sign some secrecy waiver in order to get back on the list. He even dropped out of the project once because his wife threatened divorce. Over time I came to realize that James Tracy wasn't really interested in a community sort of project, what he really wanted was for us to work for him for free. (James if you're reading this, I have all of the old e-mail's to prove the above statements). It was too difficult to follow the project so I just lost track.
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
Kid 1: "My dad says your operating system is stupid because the source code is available."
Kid 2: "Yeah, my dad said the same thing."
Kid 3: "Yeah, mine too."
Kid 4: "Well my dad makes operating systems (so he must be an expert) and he agrees with you guys."
[Enter the token dissenter]
Dissenter: "What are you talking about, we issue patches to our problems in hours not months. Do you even acknowledge the fact that your operating system HAS problems? I'll be the first to admit there are flaws in my operating system, that's the best way of getting them fixed..."
All kids: "Let's kick his ass!"
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
In the event that Iridium service becomes unavailable, we would be happy to talk to you about other possible communications solutions.
Well the reason I would have one of these phones is because I'm going someplace that doesn't have phones. So how the heck am I supposed to talk to them about my service being unavailable?
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
Weeeellllllll, they do have all of the free drinks you can handle, but I never saw any food in the freezers. That would have been nice though.
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
Man that article was frustrating, and I'm not talking about Valenti's ancient answers to new questions. What I'm most frustrated with is the interviewer shying away from the DeCSS debate. He asked one veiled question about it and went on to other topics. I was really hoping that the interviewer would have asked him if he realized that DeCSS would help other people view legally bought DVD's on other platforms and that DVD's can still be copied without DeCSS.
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
The internet does the same thing. When it hits an area of inherent unreliabilty it routes around it. This is much the same thing that the article was describing and in a general sense results in a lowering of the aggregate computing potential.
:-( This would probably explain why the stupidest among us tend to attract the most mates...
It is also apparent from this that the brain values verbal skills over mathematical skills. It makes sense since the brain is simply not evolved enough to have multiple mathematical processing areas. Thak and Groo probably needed communication skills more than they needed the ability to balance their stone checkbook.
The parietal area takes over the verbal skills when the pre-frontal area can't handle them anymore. My guess would be that the pre-frontal area of the brain is so new that it is not fault tolerant yet. It's neat to see this appear in other areas like stroke victims and people with forms of impact brain damage. I'm not a believer in the 10% theory. I feel like we use most of our brains although we have the potential to evolve them to include more and more memories and abilities much like FPGA. When another part of the brain evolves to take over something a damaged part can no longer handle, the overall system loses some proccessing power.
In reality all you really need is the ability to move, communicate on a basic level, go to the bathroom, eat and have sex. The brain seems to protect these functions. Everything else is surplus and gives up its processing power if necessary. Lets face it folks we were born to attract mates and breed
Also, if you do not get enough sleep your "cron" process do not run and your system is left in a messy state, eventually becoming unusable...
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
I've always been an HP printer bigot only because I've been using them for many years and have had absolutely no problem with them. I've never had so much as a paper jam, which absolutely amazes me now that I think about it. Ok, I did have a paper jam once, but it was my fault. The job wouldn't die so I had to pull the plug, which forced me to have to dig all of the paper out by hand. We just bought an 1100 and absolutely love it. It prints very cleanly, we've made over 1000 prints so far on the same cartridge (Which is not necessarily unusual in itself), it's fast and even prints double sided. There's also an attachment that allows this thing to be turned into a scanner and copier.
My only complaint about the 1100 is that the paper tends to curl on large jobs if you use the "up" feed. You have to either remove the prints as they pile up or change the paper feed to print them flat to the desk. Then again, as long as it's warmed up sufficiently that isn't even a problem.
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
I especially love the part where they say they did not seek to monopolize the browser market, they simply desired to have everyone use their browser...
I sure would like to have some of what they are smoking there in those legal offices... I wonder if Gates/Balmer ever proofread these things before they go to press...
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
Actually since it isn't carte blanche, I would guess the NSA reported back that they could now easily crack harder keys. Seems like this is simply a way of raising the bar to keep us happy. IMHO 64 bit keys are now as insecure as 40 bit keys were when they were first allowed to be exported. We can probably expect to see the bar raised like this every year or so.
What we really need is a one line crypto policy:
"No restrictions whatsoever on export of encryption technology".
--
Quantum Linux Laboratories - Accelerating Business with Linux
* Education
* Integration
* Support
Our ISP is shutting down for about three hours. We have no choice but to shut down as well. I have also heard many small colleges and universities are doing the same thing.
--
This is what my girlfriend used to say about that World Wide Web thing four years ago. She used to tell me that I was wasting my time with it because it is just going to burn out soon. I teased her constantly this christmas while she was ordering all of her presents online through her happy little ADSL connection.
I also remember Bob Metcalf ranting that the web was going to collapse under it's own weight soon too.
Blah blah blah, the sky is not falling. Go back to your coding, it's just a false alarm... Industry folks like to make these predictions all of the time. It gets them ratings/hits/awards/etc. and gives their PHB's warm fuzzies that they are actually doing something useful. What will keep Linux hot is its own merits, stability, open source, a large application base, rabid support from just about anyone who isn't making money from MSFT (because they are not blinded by the clueless bug) and a highly maleable development model. It's the same thing that turned the web from a hobby toy to a trillion(???) dollar industry. It became useful to the business people. Get a clue folks. If it makes money it's hot...
--
Look folks, the only way to combat this is for everyone to distribute copies of this software and associated documentation. Go here and download all of the local files and host them in as many locations as you can. If possible mirror the actual page rather than downloading. Just get them in as many public locations as possible any way you can. Lets make 'em play whack-a-mole.
Remember, one ant won't make a bit of difference, nor will two or three, but millions can overcome any obstacle.
Another issue I am reminded of here is that this is a great experiment by the powers that be. It has long been held that you cannot regulate the internet because it is so distributed and decentralized. If they win, it will be proven that it is easier to control the content of the internet than was previously thought...
Good Luck!
-Chuck
--
It seems that they are an investment firm. Money is their game. Lets do everything in our power to prevent them from ever being able to profit from Linux. Further we can spread the word and prevent them from profiting from any sort of science or art.
Hey, if Amway can spread to the deepest depths of American society, surely this can too. Spread it around. The name Leonardo Investment should make you angry. It should make you want to vent to someone else who will get angry too and want to tell someone else. Eventually all of this bad press will start to have a bad effect on these jokers...
--
I always thought if you were sent something in error that you did not order, you could keep it free of charge. I'll bet that the police were called in to intimidate this guy because they knew they didn't have a legal leg to stand on.
--
Just wanted to thank you all for the lively debate. The world gets a little smaller everytime we all share like this. I feel like the smaller the world is and the better we think we know each other the less likely that there will be someone who wants to take advantage of the situation. When you get right down to it, people are inherently good and living in a small world is a great way to keep people honest.
--
It isn't working now...
--
Believe it or not, there are distributions that already use stuff that isn't GPL. Red Hat seems to be the most open of them all. Do your research...
--
Damn, that profile fits me exactly. I didn't realize I was that dangerous. What next???? Do they revoke my passport because if I traveled to another country that could be considered an "arms export"?????
--
There is only one solution to this. Adapt their technology for our own use. To do this we should divide our efforts into two camps.
1. Focus WINE development on getting IE to run on Linux.
2. Focus more efforts on the development of Mozilla.
If we can get IE running on WINE then we might be able to augment the installation of IE and eventually ship a "mini-wine" specifically for IE. My understanding is that there is an HP-UX version of IE which may make it easier to port IE to Linux the "emulator" way.
--
Please pay attention to the number of AC posts that support Microsoft. In going through the comments I must say I have never seen so many. Seems that Microsoft anticipated this and mobilized rather quickly.
--
All I can say is AMEN BROTHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
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