Well I see some major differences between the way RH and SuSE conduct business. RH seem to be a "Linux freak" community moving into the business area; SuSE seems the more mature but "less cool" approach. RH makes minimal losses, SuSE is profitanle. I don't think they're going to slug it out now, as some users suggest - there's a huge market out there, and it's virtually divided by RedHat, SuSE and maybe Debian. They're not invading each other's turf, either - if one company hires, say Alan Cox to work on Linux, it benefits the competition just as much.
The battle's going to be over who converts the most new users to Linux. That's where most packages are sold, I'd wager, and also over market share in the business support area. That's where the money lies with Linux.
I'd also like to point out that SuSE is a general distributor of (Linux) software and even hardware.. For example, I bought Civ:CTP from them.
I'd say RH is firmly entrenched in the US, while SuSE holds much of the EU. SuSE is now doing the sensible thing - instead of trying to compete overly much with RH, they're grabbing market shares in other, more "linux virgin" markets.
We'll see what happens... I'd also like to see how well SuSE stock performs at an IPO - Certainly not as spectacular as redhat, but I'd predict growth nonetheless... Afterall SuSE does make profits in addition to beingon the top of the Linux wave..;)
It has long ago been found in court here in Germany that scientology is NOT a religion, but a commercial enterprise aimed to make a profit. In addition, Scientology is under observation by a branch of the German secret service, as there is evidence that Scientology is determined to undermine, erode, and abolish the democratic principles upon which modern Germany was founded.
The majority of European countries has since passed similar court rulings... Scientology is not a religion in Europe, and if they start to act up too much, we'll smash them.
One of the most idiotic things I've ever seen was a bunch of Scientologists in downtown Hamburg demonstrating for religious freedom. They dressed up in white robes, kinda made them look like KKK wannabees.
I also take great offense at the US Scientology's campaign of propaganda against Germany. Maybe some of you remember it. Basically what they did was say that Germans are Nazis. Over HERE, we have laws against such kinds of insult, I guess America doesn't. In fact, US politicans have even urged our German government to be nicer to Scientology.
It's always nice to see how our friends and allies, the moral and great leader of the free world is trying to mess with us.
Anyway, back to my first point (I seem to have wandered a bit), scientology is just a bunch of psychopatic fools trying to make a buck. Just say no.
Hmmm, as I said, on 64MB, my system was barely usable. Also, note that X and Netscape 8especially netscape) seem to bloat over time, ie. probably have memory leaks somewhere... Restarting X once a week does a lot to reduce system load.
Yes I know. I tried to run X+Netscape+KDE on 64 MB of Ram... it worked... kinda... but probably has reduced the lifetime of my harddisk by quite a bit.
Now I hav 192MB and things work fine. Unless I add KDE to the mix. Also, QT seems to be very, very unoptimized. GTK seems much more snappy than QT, especially if you have pixmap themes... but since QT2 and KDE2 are not really done yet, it's hard to compare the two.
Because there are not many good voice actors around. The situation is better here in Germany - because we have to dub all the english shows and movies we buy... you obviously don't have to do it, thus have fewer voice actors.
Here in Germany, btw, they usually use the same voice actor for the same actor. Thus Arnold Schwartzenegger, for example, always has the same voice actor. And still you often recognize the same voice on many different shows/actors/characters.
Actually the chinese are a very viable military threat to the western world. Remember, we've been at odds with them since the colonial ages. Add to it that China is nowadays just another lowly dictatorship where the leaders need to keep the population in check - and what better thing to bring people together than with a common enemy. Last but not least consider that China is the last communist nation on earth (well except for cuba, but I'll bet twenty bucks that Cuba won't survive the next 5-10 years as a communist nation - as soon as castro is dead, the US can end their silly, stupid, childish squabble with cuba and the cubans will be happy to flood to Walmart or whatnot).
I wouldn't be surprised to see it all go up in flames in the mid run. I don't think there's going to be a nuclear war... both sides know that once they do that, there's nothing left to rule over. But we will see very fierce economical, ideological, and maybe covert action type of conflict. In short, a second cold war.
I just wish they'd vent their "competition" in some useful manner, like with a space race or something.
A minidisc stores roughly 120 MB of data, so it ought to be able to hold roughly 2 hours of high quality mp3 music. I don't know why people would bother, though - A minidisc stores 75 minutes of music anyway and wieghs nothing. I always have two additional minidisc in my pockets, that's sufficent for me. Plus my Aiwa MD player has 40h of battery liffe (with the 3 AA battery addon pack).
A friend of mine was hired by a large German ISP last year, on entry level, no university degree (but a 2-year technical degree) to do general network and cgi-bin (perl) programming.
He was offered 36000 DM pre-tax a year, which would be re-nogiated after a year (he hoped to make 45000 pre tax after one year). He took the job.
I'm not going to disclose what I earn, sorry, but it IS more than my parents makes after 30 years of work experience.;-)
Orbs blocks all open relays. Use Orbs! THAT is the really effective thing against spam.... Of course some providers, like roses.de, are either too incompetent or too ignorant to secure their servers and remove themselves from the orbs... Only took a friend of mine 7 months to get them to fix their servers... Since there is not one valid reason that open relays should exist, the more people use orbs the better. Fight spam, shut down open relays, and draft all spammers into the landmines removal service. That way, everybody will benefit.:-)
Ever heard of seperation of power, clueless moron?
If you vote the administration out of office, the laws stay the same, and past transgressions cannot be made undone and OUGHT to be prosecuated just the same.
This is a great day for the World. Let's hope it will continue like this and MS will be history in a few years.
Well, the point is: Not only didn't Win3.1 work on DR-DOS, it was a deliberate "feature", as well. Microsoft actively crippled their product so not to work with a competing product - To use your car analogy, it would be like you wanted to buy a car - but all the gas stations in the nation have refitted their equipment so the gasoline handles (whatever the english word for it might be) only fit into Ford car gas tanks. You'd be forced to buy a Ford, even though you wanted Toyota - Just because there's only Ford gasoline around.
I've always thought the NT licensing scheme was a mere scam. Just imagine Hotmail or some other large site would have to buy a license for each user - Just the cost of license would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, versus a couple of bucks for Linux CDs.
If people believe MS, the "added quality" of Windows truely makes for a lower "TOC" than Linux+KDE/Gnome, then they deserve what they get - and the rest of us with more sense will be using your-favorite-alternative-platform and laugh our butts off.
My prediction: This new pricing idea will go down in flame - Microsoft's going to realize that it's not going to increase market share by increasing prices.
Linux Civ:CTP was also availabel at Brinkmann, a department store in Germany. They only had the German version, and who in their right minds wants to play something translated?
But at any rate, I was surprised to see it there. I hope someone bought it.
While this is pure speculation, I'd also say the average UNIX user probably has better-paying jobs - combine this with the will to support companies that make games for Unix, and I'd bet the Labyrinth Wonder that the rate of software piracy is much, much lower in the Linux market than in the Windoze market.
Back when a spammer used my email address to spam roughly two hundred thousand AOL users and I got burried in complaints and bounces, I, too, wished to be alone with the guy responsible, and a nice baseball bat.
Zero tolerance to spam... but seriously, if this indeed was the motive, then it's going a tad bit too far.
Ah I remember building SimCities on my C64 back when the game came out...and when they had grown, I'd reduce them to rubble with all those cool catastrophes. I can't wait to get this, but first I'd like to know if anybody's bought the thing... does it run well...? etc? Care to give a review?
Another US ego trip. So they started the net. Who cares? The US used to be a European colony, so by the same logic we could say, hey, there should be no US members of the ICANN board anyway, afterall WE started America.
Message to the Republicans: Stop living in the past and admit that today's society is global.
Patenting Human Genomes? Are these guys totally nuts? So basically your next child might be a violation of their patents because they happen to be the first to decipher what genes cause, say, blonde hair?
If these guys get their patents, then I say it's time to take the whole patent office down in flames. When it comes to human genetics, there can be NO tolerance for attempts like this. How can mankind be free when their genetic codes have been filed, patented, copyrighted and trademarked?
How about be put those terminator genes into our newly genemodified children next? If they want kids, they have to renew the contract we made with that genetics company....
Excuse me sir, but did you pay your Green Eyes taxes today?
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Well I see some major differences between the way RH and SuSE conduct business. RH seem to be a "Linux freak" community moving into the business area; SuSE seems the more mature but "less cool" approach. RH makes minimal losses, SuSE is profitanle. I don't think they're going to slug it out now, as some users suggest - there's a huge market out there, and it's virtually divided by RedHat, SuSE and maybe Debian. They're not invading each other's turf, either - if one company hires, say Alan Cox to work on Linux, it benefits the competition just as much.
.. ;)
The battle's going to be over who converts the most new users to Linux. That's where most packages are sold, I'd wager, and also over market share in the business support area. That's where the money lies with Linux.
I'd also like to point out that SuSE is a general distributor of (Linux) software and even hardware.. For example, I bought Civ:CTP from them.
I'd say RH is firmly entrenched in the US, while SuSE holds much of the EU. SuSE is now doing the sensible thing - instead of trying to compete overly much with RH, they're grabbing market shares in other, more "linux virgin" markets.
We'll see what happens... I'd also like to see how well SuSE stock performs at an IPO - Certainly not as spectacular as redhat, but I'd predict growth nonetheless... Afterall SuSE does make profits in addition to beingon the top of the Linux wave
Try the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (eff.org)
It has long ago been found in court here in Germany that scientology is NOT a religion, but a commercial enterprise aimed to make a profit. In addition, Scientology is under observation by a branch of the German secret service, as there is evidence that Scientology is determined to undermine, erode, and abolish the democratic principles upon which modern Germany was founded.
The majority of European countries has since passed similar court rulings... Scientology is not a religion in Europe, and if they start to act up too much, we'll smash them.
One of the most idiotic things I've ever seen was a bunch of Scientologists in downtown Hamburg demonstrating for religious freedom. They dressed up in white robes, kinda made them look like KKK wannabees.
I also take great offense at the US Scientology's campaign of propaganda against Germany. Maybe some of you remember it. Basically what they did was say that Germans are Nazis. Over HERE, we have laws against such kinds of insult, I guess America doesn't. In fact, US politicans have even urged our German government to be nicer to Scientology.
It's always nice to see how our friends and allies, the moral and great leader of the free world is trying to mess with us.
Anyway, back to my first point (I seem to have wandered a bit), scientology is just a bunch of psychopatic fools trying to make a buck. Just say no.
Hmmm, as I said, on 64MB, my system was barely usable. Also, note that X and Netscape 8especially netscape) seem to bloat over time, ie. probably have memory leaks somewhere... Restarting X once a week does a lot to reduce system load.
X 3.3.5 seems to be better though.
Yes I know. I tried to run X+Netscape+KDE on 64 MB of Ram... it worked... kinda... but probably has reduced the lifetime of my harddisk by quite a bit.
Now I hav 192MB and things work fine. Unless I add KDE to the mix. Also, QT seems to be very, very unoptimized. GTK seems much more snappy than QT, especially if you have pixmap themes... but since QT2 and KDE2 are not really done yet, it's hard to compare the two.
Yes but that doesn't make KDE run better either.
....when Windows runs more efficent than your latest GUI for X, you know something's wrong with the later.
KDE just eats up too much memory and is way too slow. I tried on a 300MHz machine with 192MB of Ram, and it didn't feel "snappy" enough for me.
Now I am back to plain Windowmaker.
Because there are not many good voice actors around. The situation is better here in Germany - because we have to dub all the english shows and movies we buy... you obviously don't have to do it, thus have fewer voice actors.
Here in Germany, btw, they usually use the same voice actor for the same actor. Thus Arnold Schwartzenegger, for example, always has the same voice actor. And still you often recognize the same voice on many different shows/actors/characters.
I just don't like to post such information in a public forum. I guess I could have made it as an A.C. but it's too late now. :-)
I get overtime as 1:1 additional days off... works for me.
Actually the chinese are a very viable military threat to the western world. Remember, we've been at odds with them since the colonial ages. Add to it that China is nowadays just another lowly dictatorship where the leaders need to keep the population in check - and what better thing to bring people together than with a common enemy. Last but not least consider that China is the last communist nation on earth (well except for cuba, but I'll bet twenty bucks that Cuba won't survive the next 5-10 years as a communist nation - as soon as castro is dead, the US can end their silly, stupid, childish squabble with cuba and the cubans will be happy to flood to Walmart or whatnot).
I wouldn't be surprised to see it all go up in flames in the mid run. I don't think there's going to be a nuclear war... both sides know that once they do that, there's nothing left to rule over. But we will see very fierce economical, ideological, and maybe covert action type of conflict. In short, a second cold war.
I just wish they'd vent their "competition" in some useful manner, like with a space race or something.
A minidisc stores roughly 120 MB of data, so it ought to be able to hold roughly 2 hours of high quality mp3 music.
I don't know why people would bother, though - A minidisc stores 75 minutes of music anyway and wieghs nothing. I always have two additional minidisc in my pockets, that's sufficent for me. Plus my Aiwa MD player has 40h of battery liffe (with the 3 AA battery addon pack).
A friend of mine was hired by a large German ISP last year, on entry level, no university degree (but a 2-year technical degree) to do general network and cgi-bin (perl) programming.
;-)
He was offered 36000 DM pre-tax a year, which would be re-nogiated after a year (he hoped to make 45000 pre tax after one year). He took the job.
I'm not going to disclose what I earn, sorry, but it IS more than my parents makes after 30 years of work experience.
Orbs blocks all open relays. Use Orbs! THAT is the really effective thing against spam.... Of course some providers, like roses.de, are either too incompetent or too ignorant to secure their servers and remove themselves from the orbs... Only took a friend of mine 7 months to get them to fix their servers... :-)
Since there is not one valid reason that open relays should exist, the more people use orbs the better. Fight spam, shut down open relays, and draft all spammers into the landmines removal service. That way, everybody will benefit.
Never, ever, run servers off an "unstable" tree - that would be a bad idea... ;-)
So releases are still important for many of us.
Ever heard of seperation of power, clueless moron?
If you vote the administration out of office, the laws stay the same, and past transgressions cannot be made undone and OUGHT to be prosecuated just the same.
This is a great day for the World. Let's hope it will continue like this and MS will be history in a few years.
Well, the point is: Not only didn't Win3.1 work on DR-DOS, it was a deliberate "feature", as well. Microsoft actively crippled their product so not to work with a competing product - To use your car analogy, it would be like you wanted to buy a car - but all the gas stations in the nation have refitted their equipment so the gasoline handles (whatever the english word for it might be) only fit into Ford car gas tanks. You'd be forced to buy a Ford, even though you wanted Toyota - Just because there's only Ford gasoline around.
See the problem now?
I've always thought the NT licensing scheme was
a mere scam. Just imagine Hotmail or some other
large site would have to buy a license for each user - Just the cost of license would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, versus a couple of bucks for Linux CDs.
If people believe MS, the "added quality" of Windows truely makes for a lower "TOC" than Linux+KDE/Gnome, then they deserve what they get - and the rest of us with more sense will be using your-favorite-alternative-platform and laugh our butts off.
My prediction: This new pricing idea will go down in flame - Microsoft's going to realize that it's not going to increase market share by increasing prices.
Linux Civ:CTP was also availabel at Brinkmann, a department store in Germany. They only had the German version, and who in their right minds wants to play something translated?
But at any rate, I was surprised to see it there. I hope someone bought it.
While this is pure speculation, I'd also say the average UNIX user probably has better-paying jobs - combine this with the will to support companies that make games for Unix, and I'd bet the Labyrinth Wonder that the rate of software piracy is much, much lower in the Linux market than in the Windoze market.
Back when a spammer used my email address to spam roughly two hundred thousand AOL users and I got burried in complaints and bounces, I, too, wished to be alone with the guy responsible, and a nice baseball bat.
Zero tolerance to spam... but seriously, if this indeed was the motive, then it's going a tad bit too far.
Can't say I'll be mourning, though.
Ah I remember building SimCities on my C64 back when the game came out...and when they had grown, I'd reduce them to rubble with all those cool catastrophes. I can't wait to get this, but first I'd like to know if anybody's bought the thing...
does it run well...? etc? Care to give a review?
Another US ego trip. So they started the net. Who cares? The US used to be a European colony, so
by the same logic we could say, hey, there should
be no US members of the ICANN board anyway, afterall WE started America.
Message to the Republicans: Stop living in the past and admit that today's society is global.
Oh, and, pay your debts to the UN already.
Their webmaster account is dead. I would
recommend to contact the listed contacts
from the whois database instead:
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Peterson, Marshall (MP11039) petersmr@CELERA.COM
(240) 453-3031 (FAX) (240) 453-4375
Billing Contact:
Thompson, Robert (RT6484) thompsrc@CELERA.COM
Patenting Human Genomes? Are these guys totally nuts? So basically your next child might be a violation of their patents because they happen to be the first to decipher what genes cause, say, blonde hair?
If these guys get their patents, then I say it's time to take the whole patent office down in flames. When it comes to human genetics, there can be NO tolerance for attempts like this. How can mankind be free when their genetic codes have been filed, patented, copyrighted and trademarked?
How about be put those terminator genes into our newly genemodified children next? If they want kids, they have to renew the contract we made with that genetics company....
Excuse me sir, but did you pay your Green Eyes taxes today?
And I thought Microsoft was a threat.