Then again, so is MacOS X, and so is WindowsXP which will come out with a home-centered "Personal Edition" as well as Professional and Server variants.
Apparently this bill has died in TX, thank Goddess.
I've seen this stated so many times, yet I have yet to see QUALITY HTML markup that is machine generated.
BRAVISSIMO!!!!
FINALLY someone defends the art and craft of writing lean, mean, clean bare-metal HTML.
Today I spent about a half-hour explaining to the CEO/President of an IT trade school why her school's site -- which has SERIOUS flaws in it like links to files on the computer on which the site was written -- is a poor marketing tool. Why the hell do you expect your Webmaster program to be taken seriously if your damn site won't work???
Anyway it points out a huge bug in FrontPage. FrontPage will blissfully put file:/// links instead of relative links if you don't pay attention to the code behind the file. Yeah, the page works on your desktop, but once you move it to the server you are SOL.
I have never had any use for WYSIWYG proggies anyway. It means double work for me. I know what the HTML does, and it is just as easy for me to code an intricate tabular layout in BBEdit as it is to do it in Dreamweaver and have to pick up after its "eccentricities" later.
I submit that quality HTML, that is viewable by just about any browser you can throw at it, requires as much skill to write than scripting or even programming languages require. It requires a different way of looking at things, one that is as much aesthetic as functional. It's only going to get more crucial as sites transition from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.0.
I am no less a geek because I'm a web person. Yeah, the gold rush is over, and yeah, I'm looking to branch out beyond just building sites. I did that non-stop from July, 1996 to October 2000. It's going to require retraining but I'm not afraid of that. However, I don't see my HTML skills going the way of GWBASIC any time soon. The Web isn't going to just fold up and disappear.
I've got two servers at work. One is running NT 4, and I never mess with it. It's a PDC for a small network. I've been ignoring it for months, and it's still going.
My other server is running W2K. It's a domain controller, DNS server, SQL server, and IIS server. I hammer on it every day. It's current uptime is about 52 days. So far this semester it's uptime is 99.995% and counting. That's not bad considering it's not on a UPS, and I'm just a lowly undergraduate student without any professional supervision.
I worked for a few months at a company who ran a 98% Windoze web design/development/ecommerce shop. (the other 2% was the lone Mac G3 which was so abused it was unusable) Their site lived on two NT4 boxen: one ran IIS, the other SQL Server.
The IIS box (let's call it Butt-Head) crashed every day. Sometimes it crashed two, even three times a day. There were other reasons why it would go down...run a patch, make a major change which would require a reboot, etc. etc. etc. The SQL Server box, (let's call it Beavis) to its credit, was unflappable. However, it didn't have much to do except look up dynamic info and feed it to Butt-Head.
One day, I had a job interview, and was showing off sites I had worked on. Everything worked. I was ready to show the piece de resistance, the revamped site of this company, with its tight, neat code and sweet page download times, (I did all the HTML work...some pages were used as coded, some were chopped up and included in the.ASP code the company's.ASP/SQL guru wrote) but...
Damn you Butt-Head! The fsckn server was down. Again.
These guys are running a bunch of sites on that crashy server. Including one very intensive ecommerce site. I don't know how many customers they are losing because their webserver is flakier than a Danish Pastry.
I don't know how much W2K improves on NT4's stability, or lack thereof. All I know is that I worked at an ISP who used NT3.51 on a lot of their server boxen and the sysadmin there refused MICROS~1's siren call to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade because he knew that NT4 was a fsckn mess. I suppose when I go through MCSE2000 training I'll find out. But the fact that NT3.51 was solid and NT4 wasn't doesn't hold out much hope.
And remember, mon ami, that Linux-Mandrake is from FRANCE. The same country that loves Jazz, Jerry Lewis, and Mickey Rourke. Is that a problem? Mais non! Vive le Mandrake!
There is an excellent novel out called "Blade Runner 2: The Edge Of Human." It was written by Philip K. Dick protege K.W. Jeter, and is almost as good as both "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" and the "Blade Runner" screenplay.
An animated feature based on BR2 would be great...I nominate Bruce Timm and Paul Dini to work on this...since Warner Bros. owns the Blade Runner "property" they would be a natural choice. Get the original actors who worked on the original BR movie to do voices...it just wouldn't be the same without them. This would be an animated feature intended solely for adults. I doubt that young children would be interested in a sequel to BR anyway.
If only Timm and Dini had such freedom in "Batman Beyond: Return Of The Joker"...I have seen the unedited version of this and it's really strong stuff. The cuts emasculate it completely.
This would make sense because 20+ years on none of the actors who did BR look like they did, and the story takes place a year after the events in BR, so that wouldn't work, right? In animation you would be able to make everyone look like they did way back in 1980, when BR was made.
With Google's recent sell-out to Yahoo, I've been getting results that seem to be less focused on accuracy, and more focused on whoever is paying Google the most for the top ranking.
Uh...Adam? Does Yahoo 0wn Google now?
That would be horrible if it's true. Yahoo has one of the nastiest AUP/TOS on the Internet. I hate it big time. I have most of my personal hosting on Yahoo Website Services, which is so lame...I gotta get out of there because according to their TOS they 0wn everything that's on my site.
Trouble is, my main email address is with them and my business site is there. Moving is going to be hell. I gotta do it though.
And no, I didn't CHOOSE YWS...they bought Simplenet a year ago and made the choice for me.
Y'know that none of this tax will ever go to any recording artist. And if so, how will they determine who gets what?
Damn straight.
The record companies will get the money and the artist will get bupkis, as they say in my home town of Hollywood, CA.
Yeah, I know Steve Albini wrote the original article that this is based on, but Courtney Love delivers the facts of life in a much more...well, colorful way. Read this and read it well:
Nobody makes money in the record industry except for those "above the line" (executives) and a select, 31337 few who are in the "millionaires' club." Like Metallica, Elton John, Puff Daddy and all the others who have wept openly that Napster is spoiling their plans to buy yet another summer home.
This is how it has been since back in the days of 78RPM Swing "sides." The white-owned record companies made fat $$$ off of lots of musicians, most of them Black. What started in the 1930s and '40s continued like a runaway freight train into the '50s, when "Race Musicians" signed away 100% of their rights to predatory record companies.
It continued through the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s to present day/present time, and it's Black, White, Latino, Asian and any number of other ethnicities of musicians who are taking it up the ass and winding up with an anus resembling that poor goat sex guy.
And if you sign with a small, indie record label, you will not be immune from these games. A friend I know was in a band which got signed to a famous punk rock band's private label. All went well for a couple of years, they got to put out a few albums and did lots of live gigs.
Then a major record distributor (Jem) went out of business, and this famous punk rock band's private label's balance sheets suddenly didn't look so good. Enter a whole lot of big record company creative accounting practices and all the sudden a band that was making bucks for the company suddenly found themselves owing the company large green.
This band's masters are now tied up with the famous punk rock band's private label, and they have no hope of legally re-releasing this music independently and making some money for themselves off of it. The famous punk rock band's private label doesn't even release this band's music anymore and have not pressed a copy of the band's CDs in years. The only way to hear this band's music now (unless you go cruising used CD stores for it) is if some kind soul ripped their tunes and posted them on Napster, Gnutella, Freenet or whatever.
I have zero sympathy for the record industry pigs and the supermegastar musicians who have the good fortune to have a piece of the action. Hoist the Jolly Roger and to hell with them all.
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Duh! Where do you think Maxtor buys their drive designs from??? This Maxtor is no doubt a clone of that very same drive, which has been out for 6 months, and has a 20GB capacity as opposed to Maxtor's 15GB capacity.
IBM has been doing Maxtor's R&D for years now.
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I've never gotten a bunk Fireball. SCSI or EIDE. And the one time a FB SCSI failed in action at Catseye Labs, it failed in such a way that I could use it for 30 minutes at a time, grab data off of it, let it rest for about an hour or so and it would be ready to run another 30 minutes to continue recovering data.
Now the new "lct" series...your comment about "FireBomb" applies. They only give a 1 year warranty on those drives...I wonder why?;-)
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Please see the abortion that was the quantum bigfoot, ca. 1996-1997. After using that piece of shit for about 1 year, it was pretty much GUARANTEED that you would boot up one day and get:
Non-System Disk or Disk Error
Replace and strike any key
Heh. Gotta laugh. Just booted up Dexter, the world's weirdest Pentium-class computer (K5-166, Amptron PC Chips mobo, Bigfoot CY 4.3 HD, system built 9/1997) and that Bigfoot HD is still alive and kicking.
Have to agree that Quantum has taken a dive over the years though...the "lct" line is crap. They used to be the Gold Standard though...Fireballs were kick-ass drives.
The best right now IMNSHO is IBM. The recent news about their complicity in the Holocaust upsets me, but won't scare me away from their drives. Best bang/buck ratio too: the 40GV 20GB HD is still being sold for $99 direct through IBM...nice for just about everything except video capture due to its 5400RPM rotational speed. UATA-100, cool as a cucumber, and it has the same lock-away head mechanism as the Maxtor "Sturdy" drive. I wouldn't be surprised if this new drive Maxtor's putting out is based on the 40GV. Anyone with a clue knows that IBM has been selling designs to Maxtor for years.
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But being as malda is in the "holocaust is a myth" camp
Prove it. Don't just blow smoke, give me EXAMPLES of Malda's espousing this belief.
If you can't give me PROOF, then I will dismiss this as a troll and move on. However, this is serious business...if Malda really does hold to Holocaust denier beliefs, I want to know so I can bail from/. for good.
I have family who died from the Holocaust. My mother-in-law was evacuated from Nazi Germany on the Kinderlift of 1938. This is serious business, folks.
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When is someone going to come out with an Open Source program that works like ACID? Or Sound Forge, for that matter?
Sonic Foundry is 1000% committed to Windoze...when you consider their founders originally worked at MICROS~1 and their most important work there was the multimedia architecture for Windows95, you know there is no way in hell they'll port to Linux, or MacOS for that matter.
BTW, I've recorded some loops for ACID at home and they've sounded pretty cool.
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You'll at least get a good hearing. I can't guarantee posting but I will at least READ your submissions and consider posting them. Judging from the subject matter you're talking about there's a good chance it'll make it.
Take care,
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You know what? I would pay a premium! I don't think that $50/mo is a realistic number unless the small ISP was repackaging telco DSL service, but yeah, for the better service and most importantly of all better accountability I'd opt for the more expensive local ISP. It's worth it.
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I worked for another "mom and pop" ISP too, 2 Cow Herd Internet. It was literally a Mom and Pop operation...Deb Howard ran the business side of the ISP, and her husband Tom Carr was the UberGeek who handled the technical end of things. I was their main contract Web Producer.
2 Cow Herd was the first full-spectrum ISP in the Venice, CA area...an area which (along with Santa Monica) later became so crowded with Internet firms the region became known as The Digital Coast.
Last year The Herd sold out to a bigger company called SOHO Central. I still have my 2cowherd.net email address but it's administered by SOHO Central now. We had some great customers and I built websites for some nice people. It was a great ride.
Bandwidth is now becoming a commodity rather than a service business. I suppose economies of scale make it easier for Uber-companies like ClamLink...oops...EarthLink and AT&T Worldnet and so on and so on to undercut the small ISP's prices.
But as far as I'm concerned, until the last human-scaled ISP breathes its last and the ISP business goes 100% corporate I will seek out and patronize small ISPs and web hosts. And you all should too. You will have a better experience, better accountability, and better service. It might not be the cheapest way to go, but you won't regret it.
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I've seen The Weather Channel when it crashes. No, your local cable channel doesn't have an SGI workstation to run the software. It's a Windozer. 9x to be exact. Classic 9x BSOD screen.
The Weather Channel might be SGI all the way in their studios. But the actual systems at your local cable channel are cheap Windoze boxen.
The TV Guide Channel used to run on Amiga boxen, back when they were called The Prevue Network. That Guru Meditation screen is as unmistakeable as the BSOD. However, I suspect they are also using cheap Windoze boxen now too.
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Slashdot Mirror
The link is up top in the header.
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Then again, so is MacOS X, and so is WindowsXP which will come out with a home-centered "Personal Edition" as well as Professional and Server variants.
Apparently this bill has died in TX, thank Goddess.
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BRAVISSIMO!!!!
FINALLY someone defends the art and craft of writing lean, mean, clean bare-metal HTML.
Today I spent about a half-hour explaining to the CEO/President of an IT trade school why her school's site -- which has SERIOUS flaws in it like links to files on the computer on which the site was written -- is a poor marketing tool. Why the hell do you expect your Webmaster program to be taken seriously if your damn site won't work???
Anyway it points out a huge bug in FrontPage. FrontPage will blissfully put file:/// links instead of relative links if you don't pay attention to the code behind the file. Yeah, the page works on your desktop, but once you move it to the server you are SOL.
I have never had any use for WYSIWYG proggies anyway. It means double work for me. I know what the HTML does, and it is just as easy for me to code an intricate tabular layout in BBEdit as it is to do it in Dreamweaver and have to pick up after its "eccentricities" later.
I submit that quality HTML, that is viewable by just about any browser you can throw at it, requires as much skill to write than scripting or even programming languages require. It requires a different way of looking at things, one that is as much aesthetic as functional. It's only going to get more crucial as sites transition from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.0.
I am no less a geek because I'm a web person. Yeah, the gold rush is over, and yeah, I'm looking to branch out beyond just building sites. I did that non-stop from July, 1996 to October 2000. It's going to require retraining but I'm not afraid of that. However, I don't see my HTML skills going the way of GWBASIC any time soon. The Web isn't going to just fold up and disappear.
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If memory serves me right, that was an act of the early Catholic Church, not of Islam.
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My other server is running W2K. It's a domain controller, DNS server, SQL server, and IIS server. I hammer on it every day. It's current uptime is about 52 days. So far this semester it's uptime is 99.995% and counting. That's not bad considering it's not on a UPS, and I'm just a lowly undergraduate student without any professional supervision.
I worked for a few months at a company who ran a 98% Windoze web design/development/ecommerce shop. (the other 2% was the lone Mac G3 which was so abused it was unusable) Their site lived on two NT4 boxen: one ran IIS, the other SQL Server.
The IIS box (let's call it Butt-Head) crashed every day. Sometimes it crashed two, even three times a day. There were other reasons why it would go down...run a patch, make a major change which would require a reboot, etc. etc. etc. The SQL Server box, (let's call it Beavis) to its credit, was unflappable. However, it didn't have much to do except look up dynamic info and feed it to Butt-Head.
One day, I had a job interview, and was showing off sites I had worked on. Everything worked. I was ready to show the piece de resistance, the revamped site of this company, with its tight, neat code and sweet page download times, (I did all the HTML work...some pages were used as coded, some were chopped up and included in the .ASP code the company's .ASP/SQL guru wrote) but...
Damn you Butt-Head! The fsckn server was down. Again.
These guys are running a bunch of sites on that crashy server. Including one very intensive ecommerce site. I don't know how many customers they are losing because their webserver is flakier than a Danish Pastry.
I don't know how much W2K improves on NT4's stability, or lack thereof. All I know is that I worked at an ISP who used NT3.51 on a lot of their server boxen and the sysadmin there refused MICROS~1's siren call to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade because he knew that NT4 was a fsckn mess. I suppose when I go through MCSE2000 training I'll find out. But the fact that NT3.51 was solid and NT4 wasn't doesn't hold out much hope.
99.999%? More like 33.333%.
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An animated feature based on BR2 would be great...I nominate Bruce Timm and Paul Dini to work on this...since Warner Bros. owns the Blade Runner "property" they would be a natural choice. Get the original actors who worked on the original BR movie to do voices...it just wouldn't be the same without them. This would be an animated feature intended solely for adults. I doubt that young children would be interested in a sequel to BR anyway.
If only Timm and Dini had such freedom in "Batman Beyond: Return Of The Joker"...I have seen the unedited version of this and it's really strong stuff. The cuts emasculate it completely.
This would make sense because 20+ years on none of the actors who did BR look like they did, and the story takes place a year after the events in BR, so that wouldn't work, right? In animation you would be able to make everyone look like they did way back in 1980, when BR was made.
This would rock.
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2.Windows 3.1 detects non-MS DOS and errors. Arguably, the result of less - than - ethical coding
That's correct...however...
3.Corel buys DR DOS, sues MS
No, it's more like Ray Noorda spins off Caldera from Novell. Caldera sues M$. Caldera wins. Caldera stops developing DR DOS.
The Corel/M$ entanglement was a completely different matter.
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Uh...Adam? Does Yahoo 0wn Google now?
That would be horrible if it's true. Yahoo has one of the nastiest AUP/TOS on the Internet. I hate it big time. I have most of my personal hosting on Yahoo Website Services, which is so lame...I gotta get out of there because according to their TOS they 0wn everything that's on my site.
Trouble is, my main email address is with them and my business site is there. Moving is going to be hell. I gotta do it though.
And no, I didn't CHOOSE YWS...they bought Simplenet a year ago and made the choice for me.
Yahoo SUCKS.
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Damn straight.
The record companies will get the money and the artist will get bupkis, as they say in my home town of Hollywood, CA.
Yeah, I know Steve Albini wrote the original article that this is based on, but Courtney Love delivers the facts of life in a much more...well, colorful way. Read this and read it well:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ index.html
Nobody makes money in the record industry except for those "above the line" (executives) and a select, 31337 few who are in the "millionaires' club." Like Metallica, Elton John, Puff Daddy and all the others who have wept openly that Napster is spoiling their plans to buy yet another summer home.
This is how it has been since back in the days of 78RPM Swing "sides." The white-owned record companies made fat $$$ off of lots of musicians, most of them Black. What started in the 1930s and '40s continued like a runaway freight train into the '50s, when "Race Musicians" signed away 100% of their rights to predatory record companies.
It continued through the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s to present day/present time, and it's Black, White, Latino, Asian and any number of other ethnicities of musicians who are taking it up the ass and winding up with an anus resembling that poor goat sex guy.
And if you sign with a small, indie record label, you will not be immune from these games. A friend I know was in a band which got signed to a famous punk rock band's private label. All went well for a couple of years, they got to put out a few albums and did lots of live gigs.
Then a major record distributor (Jem) went out of business, and this famous punk rock band's private label's balance sheets suddenly didn't look so good. Enter a whole lot of big record company creative accounting practices and all the sudden a band that was making bucks for the company suddenly found themselves owing the company large green.
This band's masters are now tied up with the famous punk rock band's private label, and they have no hope of legally re-releasing this music independently and making some money for themselves off of it. The famous punk rock band's private label doesn't even release this band's music anymore and have not pressed a copy of the band's CDs in years. The only way to hear this band's music now (unless you go cruising used CD stores for it) is if some kind soul ripped their tunes and posted them on Napster, Gnutella, Freenet or whatever.
I have zero sympathy for the record industry pigs and the supermegastar musicians who have the good fortune to have a piece of the action. Hoist the Jolly Roger and to hell with them all.
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IBM has been doing Maxtor's R&D for years now.
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Now the new "lct" series...your comment about "FireBomb" applies. They only give a 1 year warranty on those drives...I wonder why? ;-)
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Non-System Disk or Disk Error
Replace and strike any key
Heh. Gotta laugh. Just booted up Dexter, the world's weirdest Pentium-class computer (K5-166, Amptron PC Chips mobo, Bigfoot CY 4.3 HD, system built 9/1997) and that Bigfoot HD is still alive and kicking.
Have to agree that Quantum has taken a dive over the years though...the "lct" line is crap. They used to be the Gold Standard though...Fireballs were kick-ass drives.
The best right now IMNSHO is IBM. The recent news about their complicity in the Holocaust upsets me, but won't scare me away from their drives. Best bang/buck ratio too: the 40GV 20GB HD is still being sold for $99 direct through IBM...nice for just about everything except video capture due to its 5400RPM rotational speed. UATA-100, cool as a cucumber, and it has the same lock-away head mechanism as the Maxtor "Sturdy" drive. I wouldn't be surprised if this new drive Maxtor's putting out is based on the 40GV. Anyone with a clue knows that IBM has been selling designs to Maxtor for years.
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Prove it. Don't just blow smoke, give me EXAMPLES of Malda's espousing this belief.
If you can't give me PROOF, then I will dismiss this as a troll and move on. However, this is serious business...if Malda really does hold to Holocaust denier beliefs, I want to know so I can bail from /. for good.
I have family who died from the Holocaust. My mother-in-law was evacuated from Nazi Germany on the Kinderlift of 1938. This is serious business, folks.
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Sonic Foundry is 1000% committed to Windoze...when you consider their founders originally worked at MICROS~1 and their most important work there was the multimedia architecture for Windows95, you know there is no way in hell they'll port to Linux, or MacOS for that matter.
BTW, I've recorded some loops for ACID at home and they've sounded pretty cool.
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http://www.msgeek.org/html/
You'll at least get a good hearing. I can't guarantee posting but I will at least READ your submissions and consider posting them. Judging from the subject matter you're talking about there's a good chance it'll make it.
Take care,
Michelle "MsGeek" Klein-Hass
Editor-in-chief, MsGeek.Org
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This is sick humor, but humor nonetheless. Grow a sense of humor, Cthugha.
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WIRELESS LAST MILE.
It's coming, folks. Give it less than five years.
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2 Cow Herd was the first full-spectrum ISP in the Venice, CA area...an area which (along with Santa Monica) later became so crowded with Internet firms the region became known as The Digital Coast.
Last year The Herd sold out to a bigger company called SOHO Central. I still have my 2cowherd.net email address but it's administered by SOHO Central now. We had some great customers and I built websites for some nice people. It was a great ride.
Bandwidth is now becoming a commodity rather than a service business. I suppose economies of scale make it easier for Uber-companies like ClamLink...oops...EarthLink and AT&T Worldnet and so on and so on to undercut the small ISP's prices.
But as far as I'm concerned, until the last human-scaled ISP breathes its last and the ISP business goes 100% corporate I will seek out and patronize small ISPs and web hosts. And you all should too. You will have a better experience, better accountability, and better service. It might not be the cheapest way to go, but you won't regret it.
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The Weather Channel might be SGI all the way in their studios. But the actual systems at your local cable channel are cheap Windoze boxen.
The TV Guide Channel used to run on Amiga boxen, back when they were called The Prevue Network. That Guru Meditation screen is as unmistakeable as the BSOD. However, I suspect they are also using cheap Windoze boxen now too.
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