2 years to make the transition smooth eh? No matter how big your company is, it doesn't take 2 years to replace anyone in any position. I don't buy this one bit. In fact this makes me feel dirty, I think I'll go take a shower. It sounds like a publicity stunt to me. Maybe they think the geek community will have more respect for Microsoft if Gates is gone, so they pull this stunt to make their stock go up a little which has dropped ~15-16% this year and continues to fall - which for Gates is a whole lot of cash. Don't give me any Robin Hood crap either like someone else posted. He's not doing charities because he wants to help people, he's doing it to create an image of a nice, caring guy who wants to give back to the community. If he wanted to give back so much, MS would open up a little and conform to standards. He'd try to cooperate more with the open source community rather than look at OSS as a threat.
Two years is an awful long time and anything can happen. Any smart techie would know not to trust Gates/Microsoft, so why should anyone trust this? If by some small chance he will actually step down from his current position, it's because he's trying to get out with what he can and save his own butt from a falling giant.
"IBM is using Wine to run Lotus Notes software on thousands of clients, according to sources, but ironically, the company's internal use of the open-source Windows operating system emulator did not translate into a ringing endorsement in a guide to migrating to Linux clients, published recently on IBM's Web site."
W - Wine I - Is N - Not an E - Emulator
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
I can make a website claiming that just by putting your paypal info in here, beautiful women will immediatly be attracted to you for just 5 cents a minute. Really, I can do that.
a note to SFX community: This is a testing release. This is not a product release. We're not pushing this release on our PR users. The majority of PR users should stick with PR until 1.0 ships. This is a testing release and we don't need everyone downloading it, just the folks that want to be involved with testing and bug reporting. Please don't evangelize this release or start pushing all your friends and family to upgrade. Most of them should wait until 1.0 in about two weeks.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Because someone trolls the web all night waiting for Mozilla to release another version of Firefox, they get rewarded with their in lights on the front page of slashdot. Did you wonder why it's only on the FTP server and not advertised on the web site?
Yes, which means I won't waste my money on it. I'm too hooked into FFXI.
My PS2 died the other day, and I was supposed to meet up with my static party in FFXI that night. I'm so addicted, I went out and bought a second PS2, even though Sony support offered to fix it for free. Don't get me wrong, I still sent in my old PS2 with hard drive and network adapter, but now I have 2 of each!
What you should do is set up a chroot environment. Make it really easy for them to get in, but when they actually do gain access to the machine, they will be in a chroot'd environment. You could even set up all kinds of stuff in that environment to make them think that they are 31337. Once they mark their territory or whatever they want to do, they may never bother you again. Then reset the chroot environment so they next sucker thinks he's the first in.
that I will be sending this to my CIO! They don't even know who the CEO of SCO is! Who is this Daryl Mcbride they speak of. I thought DARL Mcbride was the CEO of SCO, not this DarYl. I was getting ready to send that link to my CIO too..
I'm not sure if it's been posted yet or not.. and it's not exactly something to you do when you actually build the office building, but one of the top things that makes me not want to come to work in the morning is the dress code. I'm a techie. I shouldn't have to wear a shirt and tie, but they make me. I may have to crawl under dusty, disgusting desks. Every time I open a computer case, my tie is getting in the way. I never see the clients, only the employees. Yet the CEO of this company will not let up on the dress code.
Apple and Nintendo seem to have fallen into the same hole. Both make excellent and fun to use hardware. Both are very innovative. Both make things we may not like at first, but grow to love. And both share the same competition. Microsoft and Sony are both making products to shut down Apple and Nintendo. I can think a hundred examples where Apple comes up with an idea, and Sony and Microsoft use that idea to make more money than Apple. You can almost say the same for Nintendo.
Now why don't these two companies merge? Think of the great ideas that would come out of such a merger! The iPod would be even more kick ass because it would have a GBA cartridge slot and you could play games on it (and maybe copy them to the iPod's hard drive?). The next Nintendo console would look so cool that everyone would have to have one, and the Apple guys would be smart enough to make it play DVDs or whatever new media is out at the time (Nintendo foolishly made their game Gamecube discs mini-dvd, so you cannot play movies on it).
I may not be the first person to think of this, but I feel like it almost doesn't make sense as to why this hasn't happened already.
Final Fantasy XI Online is played by people all over the world, from Japan to Europe to North America, and is very successful. There are even some (crude) translation tools in the game, so Japanese and North Americans can play together. I'm actually quite surprised this game hasn't gotten more press here on slashdot.
But FFXI is not the only game with success like that. The entire Final Fantasy series has been popular in both cultures. It is quite possible to develop games that the whole world can enjoy, and Square Enix has done just that. And to top it all off, the game is cross platform (both PC and PS2 players are in the same world[s]); something that has never been done before.
This is the best game ever. Ever. You hear me? Go buy it now and meet me on the Phoenix server (Ganiman, Tarutaru RDM).
Next, buy yourslef a CAT 5 KVM Extender. It is absolutly indespensable.
Those things are great.. but be careful how long your CAT5 cable is. If it gets too long, you will see your mouse lagging. It does not meet the same distance specs as network equipment.
I believe DOS is an acronym, meaning Disk Operating System. Is that something that can really be copyright'd by M$? If M$ would have such a beef about DOS, then why didn't they go after IBM when they released PC-DOS? I think that M$ could only whine if someone borrowed the name MS-DOS, because that's what their command line product from the late 80s is really called, not just DOS.
Look again.. if you really look close at the title bars of the open applications, it looks more like Windows. Of course I could be wrong, but that's what it looks like from here.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HslRCcRctFA
after reading that article I think I threw up in my mouth a little, and now I have a bad taste of a poor attempt at propaganda.
"We're really trying to get the world ready for a major new browser release"
Umm.. it's already happened. It's called Firefox. You know, that browser you copied ideas from? Yeah, that's the one.
Those signs around some neighborhoods for the neighborhood crime watch don't seem to work all that well.... why should this?
2 years to make the transition smooth eh? No matter how big your company is, it doesn't take 2 years to replace anyone in any position. I don't buy this one bit. In fact this makes me feel dirty, I think I'll go take a shower. It sounds like a publicity stunt to me. Maybe they think the geek community will have more respect for Microsoft if Gates is gone, so they pull this stunt to make their stock go up a little which has dropped ~15-16% this year and continues to fall - which for Gates is a whole lot of cash. Don't give me any Robin Hood crap either like someone else posted. He's not doing charities because he wants to help people, he's doing it to create an image of a nice, caring guy who wants to give back to the community. If he wanted to give back so much, MS would open up a little and conform to standards. He'd try to cooperate more with the open source community rather than look at OSS as a threat.
Two years is an awful long time and anything can happen. Any smart techie would know not to trust Gates/Microsoft, so why should anyone trust this? If by some small chance he will actually step down from his current position, it's because he's trying to get out with what he can and save his own butt from a falling giant.
What about that hot nurse of his? Is she coming too?
I always thought reverse engineering was something that is very frowned upon. Is Ben Affleck behind this?
"IBM is using Wine to run Lotus Notes software on thousands of clients, according to sources, but ironically, the company's internal use of the open-source Windows operating system emulator did not translate into a ringing endorsement in a guide to migrating to Linux clients, published recently on IBM's Web site."
W - Wine
I - Is
N - Not an
E - Emulator
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
Wine Myths
I get a feeling that somehow this article was pushed by Microsoft or Microsoft supporters.
I always thought Apple made the best laptop overall, and that IBM made the best x86 laptop. It wouldn't be such a bad thing to see them merge.
The article has been removed I think... anyone got a mirror?
Agreed.
I can make a website claiming that just by putting your paypal info in here, beautiful women will immediatly be attracted to you for just 5 cents a minute. Really, I can do that.
Right off of the spreadfirefox.com website:
a note to SFX community: This is a testing release. This is not a product release. We're not pushing this release on our PR users. The majority of PR users should stick with PR until 1.0 ships. This is a testing release and we don't need everyone downloading it, just the folks that want to be involved with testing and bug reporting. Please don't evangelize this release or start pushing all your friends and family to upgrade. Most of them should wait until 1.0 in about two weeks.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Because someone trolls the web all night waiting for Mozilla to release another version of Firefox, they get rewarded with their in lights on the front page of slashdot. Did you wonder why it's only on the FTP server and not advertised on the web site?
Yes, which means I won't waste my money on it. I'm too hooked into FFXI.
My PS2 died the other day, and I was supposed to meet up with my static party in FFXI that night. I'm so addicted, I went out and bought a second PS2, even though Sony support offered to fix it for free. Don't get me wrong, I still sent in my old PS2 with hard drive and network adapter, but now I have 2 of each!
w00t. I'm trolling this morning, aren't I?
What you should do is set up a chroot environment. Make it really easy for them to get in, but when they actually do gain access to the machine, they will be in a chroot'd environment. You could even set up all kinds of stuff in that environment to make them think that they are 31337. Once they mark their territory or whatever they want to do, they may never bother you again. Then reset the chroot environment so they next sucker thinks he's the first in.
that I will be sending this to my CIO! They don't even know who the CEO of SCO is! Who is this Daryl Mcbride they speak of. I thought DARL Mcbride was the CEO of SCO, not this DarYl. I was getting ready to send that link to my CIO too..
I'm not sure if it's been posted yet or not.. and it's not exactly something to you do when you actually build the office building, but one of the top things that makes me not want to come to work in the morning is the dress code. I'm a techie. I shouldn't have to wear a shirt and tie, but they make me. I may have to crawl under dusty, disgusting desks. Every time I open a computer case, my tie is getting in the way. I never see the clients, only the employees. Yet the CEO of this company will not let up on the dress code.
Apple and Nintendo seem to have fallen into the same hole. Both make excellent and fun to use hardware. Both are very innovative. Both make things we may not like at first, but grow to love. And both share the same competition. Microsoft and Sony are both making products to shut down Apple and Nintendo. I can think a hundred examples where Apple comes up with an idea, and Sony and Microsoft use that idea to make more money than Apple. You can almost say the same for Nintendo.
Now why don't these two companies merge? Think of the great ideas that would come out of such a merger! The iPod would be even more kick ass because it would have a GBA cartridge slot and you could play games on it (and maybe copy them to the iPod's hard drive?). The next Nintendo console would look so cool that everyone would have to have one, and the Apple guys would be smart enough to make it play DVDs or whatever new media is out at the time (Nintendo foolishly made their game Gamecube discs mini-dvd, so you cannot play movies on it).
I may not be the first person to think of this, but I feel like it almost doesn't make sense as to why this hasn't happened already.
You mean the good ol' USA had scientific dominence at one time? Hogwash!
Final Fantasy XI Online is played by people all over the world, from Japan to Europe to North America, and is very successful. There are even some (crude) translation tools in the game, so Japanese and North Americans can play together. I'm actually quite surprised this game hasn't gotten more press here on slashdot.
But FFXI is not the only game with success like that. The entire Final Fantasy series has been popular in both cultures. It is quite possible to develop games that the whole world can enjoy, and Square Enix has done just that. And to top it all off, the game is cross platform (both PC and PS2 players are in the same world[s]); something that has never been done before.
This is the best game ever. Ever. You hear me? Go buy it now and meet me on the Phoenix server (Ganiman, Tarutaru RDM).
Seriously, I think I would have been better off never seeing this topic. I now feel empty inside, and it hurts; it really, really hurts.
Next, buy yourslef a CAT 5 KVM Extender. It is absolutly indespensable.
Those things are great.. but be careful how long your CAT5 cable is. If it gets too long, you will see your mouse lagging. It does not meet the same distance specs as network equipment.
I believe DOS is an acronym, meaning Disk Operating System. Is that something that can really be copyright'd by M$? If M$ would have such a beef about DOS, then why didn't they go after IBM when they released PC-DOS? I think that M$ could only whine if someone borrowed the name MS-DOS, because that's what their command line product from the late 80s is really called, not just DOS.
LinDOES
because WinCANT
UNIX-ish desktops are visible
Look again.. if you really look close at the title bars of the open applications, it looks more like Windows. Of course I could be wrong, but that's what it looks like from here.