See above the list I placed on Amazon a hundred years ago, listing 25 of my favourite Sci-Fi series. The first book is the one listed, with additional volumes mentioned in the comments section.
I recently instaled a pair of Xerox Document Centre 440s, which have a high-speed network scanning capability. Basically, you set up user templates, point it to an ftp server, place your documents on top of it and hit go. The end result is a.pdf file or multi-page.tiff, dropped onto your network. The.pdf is immediately useful, but the.tiff can be run through an auto-OCR, producing an editable document.
I just tested this by cutting the binding off of one of my AD&D Player's Handbooks, placing it on the scanner, and creating an OCR'd document out of it! Makes it really easy to extend a resource for personal use, eh?
Now, the down-side to this beast is that they cost about 45k. *grin* Still, if your company needs a great printer/scanner/copier/fax machine, these things are well worth the price tag.
How about this one: what if the rocket laden with nuclear wastes explodes in the atmosphere? Not all that likely, but it has happened, several times. Can you imagine a humungous "dirty bomb" detonated above the Eastern US? I can, and it's frightening enough that I hope no one ^ever^ sends fission wastes into space.
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"I like you, Stuart, you're not like the other people, here, in the trailer park..."
He's referencing Titanic, not Satanic, as in, "Itanium will go down like the Titanic despite all hype to the contrary."
Remember that Titanic was a heavily-hyped technological marvel, and sank on its first voyage... Itanium shows every indication (thus far) of the same fate.
Just what gives you the impression that Itaniums will be cheap, commodity items? Everything Intel has said about them seems in contradiction to this basic assumption, which lies at the core of your question.
Itaniums are targetted at the "big iron" market, where SPARC, Alpha and POWER chips currently reign. Intel has said that there will be several remaining iterations of their 32-bit chip lines, and after that, 64-bit chips will enter the mass market, but in a frob'd configuration (id est, not of the same calibre as their Itanium line).
Well, to be fair, CDE is a LOT faster that Gnome on Solaris (I've used both Gnome and KDE on Solaris and AIX), so it really depends upon what you expect from the system. Realistically, is Solaris going to be the desktop operating system for a non-PowerUser or SysAdmin? I don't know any desktop Unix user that isn't a developer, SysAdmin or engineer. I'm not dis'ing Gnome, I'm just wondering what the big deal is.
I just have to chime in and wish the KDE project a happy birthday. I've been using KDE since 1998, and it's still my favourite general-purpose desktop. Not to seem like flame-bait, but I've never liked GNOME, whether Helix-code or not. Soce of the applications are killer (I do like Evolution) but the desktop lacks a lot of the polish one takes from granted from MS and Apple. At any road, I just want to say that I switched from fvwm to KDE and I've never looked back. Happy Birthday, K, and hopefully many, many more to come.
Longer-lasting republics include Switzerland and San Marino, both by several centuries. Furthermore, the USofA is actual run by elites, and is not strictly democratic, by any standards. Common folk are prohibited from contributing in any meaningful way in the political process. ~wmaheriv
Please don't think the rest of/. is uniformely as tactless and boring as this one. Some of us are actually quite the romantic type, myself included.
Seriously, and I say this with no disguised ulteriour motives, if you'd like to chat about American culture, let me know. I, too, was once a relative outsider, and judging from your URL, UID, and posts, I think we'd have quite a bit in common. Remember, no ulteriour motives, just neighbourly good cheer and conversation.
Wouldn't the be 'NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!'?
"Our chief wespon is surprise; surprise and fear; our ^two^ weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless effficiency...; three, our three weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the papacy... I'll come in again..." ~wmaheriv
How does socialism not work? Some of the strongest economies in the world are socialist (the second strongest, Germany, is strongly socialist in character). Look no further than Scandinavia to see socialism at work in a vibrant and free society. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway have some of the highest standards of living and lowest crime rates anywhere. ~wmaheriv
SuSE was my favourite distro. Now I'll have to move back to Mandrake.. let's hope ^they^ can continue to compete against RedHat.
I don't know about the rest of you, but IMHO RedHat is good for servers and lousy for workstations. They're slow to improve app. availability, multi-media, drivers for newer hardware (RedHat 7 still didn't pick up my Promise card!), etc. The fact that I can is beside the point- I shouldn't ^have^ to configure everything by hand. ~wmaheriv
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It would have been nice if you'd had the guts to respond using a/. ID, so that I could properly respond to your post. I almost didn't even notice it (I read at +1).
If you are interested in continuing this discussion off-line, I will gladly back up my claims with examples form Bush's public statements, from the bills he's sponsored, from the people he's helped, etc.
I have followed his public record since he's taken office. Whatever else you say about me, I am not ignorant of the man's activities.
You committed several logical fallacies in your response, including the ignorant jab. I do not lie, and people ^do^ follow puppets- history is filled with them. If you choose to reply, we can discuss the examples an understanding of history provides us with. ~wmaheriv
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"4) The removal of people's rights to pray in school if/when they see fit."
What about the rest of us? Do you waste school time allowing anyone to pray in class? Or do you only allow the Christians to pray in class?
Where do you draw the line? Do the Moslems get to pray at noon in class? Do the Jews get to daven in the morning in class? Do the Buddhists get te meditate in the afternoon in class?
Also, what if some of us don't want to listen to Christian prayers in class? Do we get to wait outside? Where, exactly, do you draw the distinction between freedom to practice your religion, and prohibiting others from exercising the same rights?
I can't even begin to fathom your support for the Shrub, either. The man has absolutely no qualifications for the job.
Texas has the weakest governor in the 50 states (read their Constitution- he's below the attorney general!), and that's his only experience in politics. He's also ignorant, not allowed to speak when it's not scripted, and literally a puppet of Big Business. Check his record if you don't believe me.
He's also a liar- Most of what's he's claimed for his governorship is inaccurate. Texan ranks last in the nation in environmental issues, and has gotten dirtier since he's been governor, and ranks 49th in education, despite having the 10th strongest economy in the world.
Democracy is dead, welcome to the Republican Plutocracy.
Actually, yes, I do have some problems with Win2k. Namely, the two things I hate most about NT4 have not been fixed.
1) Device drivers can still down the system if they are not specifically certified for Win2k. Since so few manufacturers have this certification, you have to trust them, use NT4 drivers, use the Win2k stock drivers (if available), or don't use your hardware. It is a simple fact that most of the hardware I own and work with is either not in the WIn2k distribution, has lousy drivers in the distribution, or I have to trust the vendors, which has produced some disastrous results thus far!
2) Poorly written applications can still down the system. I have had to re-boot because of several different design programs, because of Lotus, because of Corel stuff, even for silly little freeware. If you use only certified apps., you have, like, 5 or 6 programs you can instal! The end-user is ^forced^ to use NT4-certified apps. in order to make use of Win2k as a production system, and this does not always leave you with a stable OS.
For my money, Unix still rocks Microsoft's lame arse. *grin* ~wmaheriv
MicroCADAM Inc. As in MicroCADAM Helix Design System. It's a CAD/CAM suite, and a very poor one at that! *grin* They've recently withdrawn from the North American market, but they still have a substantial instaled base and many international customers. ~wmaheriv
I can think of some killer networking uses for that much extra equipment. Thnk about it- miles of fibre, no static electricity... this could be the ultimate co-lo site, if nothing else! Let's get creative, raise the cash, and move in!!! ~wmaheriv
There's been an XBill port for Win32 for years. Search for it and try it out- it's pretty close to the real thing. I still play it regularly at work... *grin* ~wmaheriv
I started on this quest to master *nix almost three years ago, and I still can't believe how much I have yet to learn! You really can go as far as you want with this.
Anyhoo, here're the names of a few books I found exceptionally useful:
Running Linux (O'Reilly)
Slackware Linux Unleashed (Sams)
Unix Power Tools (O'Reilly)
Linux In Plain English (MIS)
Linux In A Nutshell (O'Reilly)
Maximum Linux Security (Sams)
Learning The Bash Shell (O'Reilly)
Essential System Administration (O'Reilly)
There are also plenty of specialised books that I highly recommend, such as:
Learning The vi Editor (O'Reilly)
Apache, The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly)
TCP/IP Network Administration (O'Reilly)
Samba Unleashed (Sams)
The Linux Network (MIS)
There are quite a few newer books out there now targetting the recent migrant. Try the Visual Kickstart (I think I remembered that name correctly!) or Visually (blue & white series, lotsa pictures) series. My wife has also reported that the Idiot's Guide books are much better than the Dummies books! *grin* She's also reported good luck with the Sams Teach Yourself In (insert time here) series. They have distro-specific and desktop-specific tomes. Their KDE book looked like it might be helpful to you.
Try Exceed from Hummingbird. Not only can you (for example) remotely connect to and view CDE on HP-UX and Solaris boxen, but you can run X applications on NT with a minimum of fuss. Many common tools (finger, whois, etc.) common with the basic distribution. Also, several CAD application vendors (e.g., Unigraphics) have done this to move their stuff to NT quickly. I still use SCO version of UG15 on an NT box this way. ~wmaheriv
Novell can only be doomed by marketing and buyer perceptions, not by Linux or NT. Let me elaborate:
1) NetWare is still hands-down the fastest and most robust file-and-print server for Windows-based networks. Despite its cost, Linux cannot obsolete NetWare in this area until it can compete technologically. This is not to say that Linux does not blow NetWare out of the water in other areas (Web serving, for example).
2) IP-based printing is a piss-poor idea for most networks. I know it is effective with CAD stations, but the average NetAdmin would hate the idea. First of all, you have limited options for remote management. Secondly, you need to have a lot more memory on the printer. Thirdly, it lets the user's individual system spooler send the jobs, which is too big a bottleneck in the average office PC.
3) Microsoft's Active Directory sucks compared to NDS. Try both systems and then tell me that MS can put Novell under the table.
Marketing and money, however, bring a lot more into the discussion. Microsoft can and has succeeded in changing the public perception of Novell, and Novell's marketing efforts have been notoriously half-assed and ineffective. Were this not the case, NT would never have made it out the starting gate...
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See above the list I placed on Amazon a hundred years ago, listing 25 of my favourite Sci-Fi series. The first book is the one listed, with additional volumes mentioned in the comments section.
I recently instaled a pair of Xerox Document Centre 440s, which have a high-speed network scanning capability. Basically, you set up user templates, point it to an ftp server, place your documents on top of it and hit go. The end result is a .pdf file or multi-page .tiff, dropped onto your network. The .pdf is immediately useful, but the .tiff can be run through an auto-OCR, producing an editable document.
I just tested this by cutting the binding off of one of my AD&D Player's Handbooks, placing it on the scanner, and creating an OCR'd document out of it! Makes it really easy to extend a resource for personal use, eh?
Now, the down-side to this beast is that they cost about 45k. *grin* Still, if your company needs a great printer/scanner/copier/fax machine, these things are well worth the price tag.
How about this one: what if the rocket laden with nuclear wastes explodes in the atmosphere? Not all that likely, but it has happened, several times. Can you imagine a humungous "dirty bomb" detonated above the Eastern US? I can, and it's frightening enough that I hope no one ^ever^ sends fission wastes into space.
response to sig.:
"I like you, Stuart, you're not like the other people, here, in the trailer park..."
He's referencing Titanic, not Satanic, as in, "Itanium will go down like the Titanic despite all hype to the contrary."
Remember that Titanic was a heavily-hyped technological marvel, and sank on its first voyage... Itanium shows every indication (thus far) of the same fate.
Just what gives you the impression that Itaniums will be cheap, commodity items? Everything Intel has said about them seems in contradiction to this basic assumption, which lies at the core of your question.
Itaniums are targetted at the "big iron" market, where SPARC, Alpha and POWER chips currently reign. Intel has said that there will be several remaining iterations of their 32-bit chip lines, and after that, 64-bit chips will enter the mass market, but in a frob'd configuration (id est, not of the same calibre as their Itanium line).
To whelm is to cover or engulf completely, of course. American education system... sheesh....
Well, to be fair, CDE is a LOT faster that Gnome on Solaris (I've used both Gnome and KDE on Solaris and AIX), so it really depends upon what you expect from the system. Realistically, is Solaris going to be the desktop operating system for a non-PowerUser or SysAdmin? I don't know any desktop Unix user that isn't a developer, SysAdmin or engineer. I'm not dis'ing Gnome, I'm just wondering what the big deal is.
I just have to chime in and wish the KDE project a happy birthday. I've been using KDE since 1998, and it's still my favourite general-purpose desktop. Not to seem like flame-bait, but I've never liked GNOME, whether Helix-code or not. Soce of the applications are killer (I do like Evolution) but the desktop lacks a lot of the polish one takes from granted from MS and Apple. At any road, I just want to say that I switched from fvwm to KDE and I've never looked back. Happy Birthday, K, and hopefully many, many more to come.
Has everyone interested in the Hawking story seen the recent Reg articles?
If not, check them out:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21414.html
Stephen Hawking predicts cyborg ascendancy
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21488.html
Cyborg metaphysics
Longer-lasting republics include Switzerland and San Marino, both by several centuries.
Furthermore, the USofA is actual run by elites, and is not strictly democratic, by any standards. Common folk are prohibited from contributing in any meaningful way in the political process.
~wmaheriv
Please don't think the rest of /. is uniformely as tactless and boring as this one. Some of us are actually quite the romantic type, myself included.
Seriously, and I say this with no disguised ulteriour motives, if you'd like to chat about American culture, let me know. I, too, was once a relative outsider, and judging from your URL, UID, and posts, I think we'd have quite a bit in common. Remember, no ulteriour motives, just neighbourly good cheer and conversation.
~wmaheriv
Wouldn't the be 'NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!'?
"Our chief wespon is surprise; surprise and fear; our ^two^ weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless effficiency...; three, our three weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the papacy... I'll come in again..."
~wmaheriv
How does socialism not work? Some of the strongest economies in the world are socialist (the second strongest, Germany, is strongly socialist in character). Look no further than Scandinavia to see socialism at work in a vibrant and free society. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway have some of the highest standards of living and lowest crime rates anywhere.
~wmaheriv
SuSE was my favourite distro. Now I'll have to move back to Mandrake.. let's hope ^they^ can continue to compete against RedHat.
I don't know about the rest of you, but IMHO RedHat is good for servers and lousy for workstations. They're slow to improve app. availability, multi-media, drivers for newer hardware (RedHat 7 still didn't pick up my Promise card!), etc. The fact that I can is beside the point- I shouldn't ^have^ to configure everything by hand.
~wmaheriv
It would have been nice if you'd had the guts to respond using a /. ID, so that I could properly respond to your post. I almost didn't even notice it (I read at +1).
If you are interested in continuing this discussion off-line, I will gladly back up my claims with examples form Bush's public statements, from the bills he's sponsored, from the people he's helped, etc.
I have followed his public record since he's taken office. Whatever else you say about me, I am not ignorant of the man's activities.
You committed several logical fallacies in your response, including the ignorant jab. I do not lie, and people ^do^ follow puppets- history is filled with them. If you choose to reply, we can discuss the examples an understanding of history provides us with.
~wmaheriv
What about the rest of us? Do you waste school time allowing anyone to pray in class? Or do you only allow the Christians to pray in class?
Where do you draw the line? Do the Moslems get to pray at noon in class? Do the Jews get to daven in the morning in class? Do the Buddhists get te meditate in the afternoon in class?
Also, what if some of us don't want to listen to Christian prayers in class? Do we get to wait outside? Where, exactly, do you draw the distinction between freedom to practice your religion, and prohibiting others from exercising the same rights?
I can't even begin to fathom your support for the Shrub, either. The man has absolutely no qualifications for the job.
Texas has the weakest governor in the 50 states (read their Constitution- he's below the attorney general!), and that's his only experience in politics. He's also ignorant, not allowed to speak when it's not scripted, and literally a puppet of Big Business. Check his record if you don't believe me.
He's also a liar- Most of what's he's claimed for his governorship is inaccurate. Texan ranks last in the nation in environmental issues, and has gotten dirtier since he's been governor, and ranks 49th in education, despite having the 10th strongest economy in the world.
Democracy is dead, welcome to the Republican Plutocracy.
~wmaheriv
Actually, yes, I do have some problems with Win2k. Namely, the two things I hate most about NT4 have not been fixed.
1) Device drivers can still down the system if they are not specifically certified for Win2k. Since so few manufacturers have this certification, you have to trust them, use NT4 drivers, use the Win2k stock drivers (if available), or don't use your hardware. It is a simple fact that most of the hardware I own and work with is either not in the WIn2k distribution, has lousy drivers in the distribution, or I have to trust the vendors, which has produced some disastrous results thus far!
2) Poorly written applications can still down the system. I have had to re-boot because of several different design programs, because of Lotus, because of Corel stuff, even for silly little freeware. If you use only certified apps., you have, like, 5 or 6 programs you can instal! The end-user is ^forced^ to use NT4-certified apps. in order to make use of Win2k as a production system, and this does not always leave you with a stable OS.
For my money, Unix still rocks Microsoft's lame arse. *grin*
~wmaheriv
MicroCADAM Inc. As in MicroCADAM Helix Design System. It's a CAD/CAM suite, and a very poor one at that! *grin* They've recently withdrawn from the North American market, but they still have a substantial instaled base and many international customers.
~wmaheriv
I can think of some killer networking uses for that much extra equipment. Thnk about it- miles of fibre, no static electricity... this could be the ultimate co-lo site, if nothing else! Let's get creative, raise the cash, and move in!!!
~wmaheriv
There's been an XBill port for Win32 for years. Search for it and try it out- it's pretty close to the real thing. I still play it regularly at work... *grin*
~wmaheriv
I started on this quest to master *nix almost three years ago, and I still can't believe how much I have yet to learn! You really can go as far as you want with this.
Anyhoo, here're the names of a few books I found exceptionally useful:
Running Linux (O'Reilly)Slackware Linux Unleashed (Sams)
Unix Power Tools (O'Reilly)
Linux In Plain English (MIS)
Linux In A Nutshell (O'Reilly)
Maximum Linux Security (Sams)
Learning The Bash Shell (O'Reilly)
Essential System Administration (O'Reilly)
There are also plenty of specialised books that I highly recommend, such as:
Learning The vi Editor (O'Reilly)Apache, The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly)
TCP/IP Network Administration (O'Reilly)
Samba Unleashed (Sams)
The Linux Network (MIS)
There are quite a few newer books out there now targetting the recent migrant. Try the Visual Kickstart (I think I remembered that name correctly!) or Visually (blue & white series, lotsa pictures) series. My wife has also reported that the Idiot's Guide books are much better than the Dummies books! *grin* She's also reported good luck with the Sams Teach Yourself In (insert time here) series. They have distro-specific and desktop-specific tomes. Their KDE book looked like it might be helpful to you.
I hope this was useful to ^someone^!
Cheers,
~wmaheriv
Try Exceed from Hummingbird. Not only can you (for example) remotely connect to and view CDE on HP-UX and Solaris boxen, but you can run X applications on NT with a minimum of fuss. Many common tools (finger, whois, etc.) common with the basic distribution. Also, several CAD application vendors (e.g., Unigraphics) have done this to move their stuff to NT quickly. I still use SCO version of UG15 on an NT box this way.
~wmaheriv
Actually, the assertion that IE has only one route back to MS is false.
All of the links in 'Favourites' that come with the stock browser pay MS to be there (favourable product placement).
Also, IE's default Home Page is msn.com, which in no small way accounts for msn's increasing hit-counts and importance to advertisers!
~wmaheriv
Novell can only be doomed by marketing and buyer perceptions, not by Linux or NT. Let me elaborate:
1) NetWare is still hands-down the fastest and most robust file-and-print server for Windows-based networks. Despite its cost, Linux cannot obsolete NetWare in this area until it can compete technologically. This is not to say that Linux does not blow NetWare out of the water in other areas (Web serving, for example).
2) IP-based printing is a piss-poor idea for most networks. I know it is effective with CAD stations, but the average NetAdmin would hate the idea. First of all, you have limited options for remote management. Secondly, you need to have a lot more memory on the printer. Thirdly, it lets the user's individual system spooler send the jobs, which is too big a bottleneck in the average office PC.
3) Microsoft's Active Directory sucks compared to NDS. Try both systems and then tell me that MS can put Novell under the table.
Marketing and money, however, bring a lot more into the discussion. Microsoft can and has succeeded in changing the public perception of Novell, and Novell's marketing efforts have been notoriously half-assed and ineffective. Were this not the case, NT would never have made it out the starting gate...
~wmaheriv