I think Norton Utillities/Anti-Virus may have been around longer than PERL
Not excactly. Norton introduced its LiveUpdate feature in late 90's. About Perl I am no sure, but I do have Larry's Perl book, printed in 1993.
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installing Solaris7 on Intel is a bitch due to hardware compatibility issues
Amen to that. I just finished installing Solaris 8 into a P3 box with damned i815 chipset. Definetly it was not a walk in a park.
First off, UDMA support does not work during Solaris installer. Yeah, the thing is documented in release notes. After killing UDMA, next prob was getting the damn machine to use a PCI Millennium 2 instead of integrated i815 chipset which Solaris doesn't understand too well. Actually it required some Bios tewaking, more than just setting [On-chip display adaprer] to DISABLED position.
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I am scared of the day that a government accepts digital signatures as legally binding.
Welcome to Finland:) Our HST makes that already possible. HST stands for Electrical Idetification of a Person, the acronym is in Finnish of course. More info is available. Just select English from top-left corner for language challenged persons:)-P --
In the R1 version, the orgy scene in the mansion was censored. The R2 version seems identical to me for the version I've seen in the cinema.
There are lots of nude women standing around in front of the camera and they cover most of the sexual performances. The worst thing is, they stand very still, like statues. Then again, what can you expect from a cut-n-paste image anyway?
BTW, this far my pals have been purchasing DVDs from good ol'US as they are uncensored versions. But not this time. Wonder if there are more cases like this?
Back in 1997 totalnews.com was pulled in courtrooms by CNN, Reuters and six other media companies. The reason was, totalnews used frames to link all the newscontent form CNN etc. Joe Surfer never noticed the news weren't coming from TN.
Later, TN and the media companies made some kind of deal about the situation, and the case was pulled out of courtroom.
Sometimes columnists do just that. They write an article and put lots of provocative senences there in order to stir up a (fiercy?) discussion. After all, journalists feel happy if their products make people to react somehow.
I remember when the local newspaper had a column which sugested that fattening foods should carry extra taxes just like booze and cigarettes. The reasoning was, overweightness causes lots of diseases and is expensive to society in form of sick leaves and so on. You can guess the readers were not amused about the idea. But the columnist was rewarded - he (she? can't recall) made the readers to talk about the column in homes, offices and schools. Not bad.
If an independant applications company would necessarily produce for all platforms, then where is Lotus SmartSuite for Macintosh/Linux?
But that is the whole point! Windows is the predominant desktop platform. Thus, there is little, if any, use to invest on others. If (when?) MS is broken, the Windows no longer is the predominant platform. Then apps developers can and will seek other supported platforms as well.
Take a look on the server side. Databases, web servers, firewalls and other server side products are available on several platforms.
Oracle products are available for NT, SCO, Solaris, HP-UX...
Informix products can be used on NT, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX...
DB2 is available for NT, NUMA-Q, AIX, OS/2...
Why? There is no de facto server OS standard. The server business is dominated by tech literiate people (Am I in the Ivory Tower now?) and we can choose the most suitable platform for the needed purpose. We do not need end-user friendly graphical gadgets. We do not even care if USB / Scanner / Sound board is not supported by the OS as a server has no need for it! What we care is the OS and the software fulfill the need.
MS, Novell and all the *NIX systems fight for market share. And this fight is a fierce one, as the stakes are way higher than on end-users' desks.
When the danish national radio news announced [SNIP]to spread their INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE, INTERNET EXPLORE
Now that's what I find quite disturbing. Just image what Joe Sixpack knows (or understands) about the lawsuit or the big picture. How can journalists make that kind of mistakes?
Well, then again, hacker always is a computer criminal in the mainstream newspapers, and modems are running on 56K baud. -sigh-
I suggest placing a Scotsman, a Nigerian, and an English-speaking Malay in the same room
I couldn't agree more with you. I am a Finn and I study computer engineering in the local polytechnic in English. Some 2/3 of the students are Finns as well, but the rest is quite an international crowd. The foreigners come from countries like China, India, Somalia, Ghana, Iran and France.
The first time I tride to chat with Somalians was quite an experience. I know my English is far from perfect, but I'd say I understand it quite well. Now when the Somalians spoke English, I really couldn't catch a single word. The same happened with most of the other Africans as well. The way they pronounced was totally different from what I was used to hear from TV and movies.
Still, nowadays I can very well understand their dialect and chat with every foreigner in my school. It just required some practice. The bottom line is, in the Finnish schools the English classes are based on British English and all the material accords to this fact. On the other hand, most of the entertainment is imported from he US, and the American dialect comes from music and TV. We have localized soundtracks only in children's movies and stuff like.
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I think Norton Utillities/Anti-Virus may have been around longer than PERL Not excactly. Norton introduced its LiveUpdate feature in late 90's. About Perl I am no sure, but I do have Larry's Perl book, printed in 1993. -P
both a president (currently Mr Chirac) and a president (Mr Jospin) D'oh! President and prime minister. Should use preview button more often... -P
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Back in 1997 totalnews.com was pulled in courtrooms by CNN, Reuters and six other media companies. The reason was, totalnews used frames to link all the newscontent form CNN etc. Joe Surfer never noticed the news weren't coming from TN.
Later, TN and the media companies made some kind of deal about the situation, and the case was pulled out of courtroom.
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Sometimes columnists do just that. They write an article and put lots of provocative senences there in order to stir up a (fiercy?) discussion. After all, journalists feel happy if their products make people to react somehow.
I remember when the local newspaper had a column which sugested that fattening foods should carry extra taxes just like booze and cigarettes. The reasoning was, overweightness causes lots of diseases and is expensive to society in form of sick leaves and so on. You can guess the readers were not amused about the idea. But the columnist was rewarded - he (she? can't recall) made the readers to talk about the column in homes, offices and schools. Not bad.
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Then again, how good are those altitude meters installed on planes? Military versions probably are better. Does anyone have an idea? Eil?
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Take a look on the server side. Databases, web servers, firewalls and other server side products are available on several platforms.
- Oracle products are available for NT, SCO, Solaris, HP-UX...
- Informix products can be used on NT, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX...
- DB2 is available for NT, NUMA-Q, AIX, OS/2...
Why? There is no de facto server OS standard. The server business is dominated by tech literiate people (Am I in the Ivory Tower now?) and we can choose the most suitable platform for the needed purpose. We do not need end-user friendly graphical gadgets. We do not even care if USB / Scanner / Sound board is not supported by the OS as a server has no need for it! What we care is the OS and the software fulfill the need.MS, Novell and all the *NIX systems fight for market share. And this fight is a fierce one, as the stakes are way higher than on end-users' desks.
-P
Well, then again, hacker always is a computer criminal in the mainstream newspapers, and modems are running on 56K baud. -sigh-
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The first time I tride to chat with Somalians was quite an experience. I know my English is far from perfect, but I'd say I understand it quite well. Now when the Somalians spoke English, I really couldn't catch a single word. The same happened with most of the other Africans as well. The way they pronounced was totally different from what I was used to hear from TV and movies.
Still, nowadays I can very well understand their dialect and chat with every foreigner in my school. It just required some practice. The bottom line is, in the Finnish schools the English classes are based on British English and all the material accords to this fact. On the other hand, most of the entertainment is imported from he US, and the American dialect comes from music and TV. We have localized soundtracks only in children's movies and stuff like.
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