Well pick your favorite Doom engine expansion (jDoom, etc) set up a server running the FreeDoom IWAD, and all the Pwads you'd like and get read for me to kick you ass from my 75mhz IBM crAptivia running FreeBSD.
I don't think your trying to start a flame war here, but I definatly think Linux has moved beyond niche/hobby OS. I'd hardly call the server market and the embedded market niches, and if so no more than the desktop market. I guess its a matter of opinion when a niche becomes a major market segment.
I don't think OS/2 becoming Open source would send make a big dent in the windows marketshare. Sure its a great OS, but so is OSX, Beos and a default SuSE install. App wise it don't bring anything to the table new, and most of the Open Source "killer appa" are ported to Warp already.
If it did get open sourced and then proced to kill linux and windows then: "The king is dead, long live the king."
If IBM released OS/2 as open source, both Windows AND linux would rapidly become hobby software.
I'll be honest I'll go to my scrap pile and build me a box and Install OS/2 and OpenWatcom immediatly if it goes open source, but my laptop would stay linux and my servers would remain OpenBSD. And lets be honest with all the GNU tools already available for Warp my box would quickly become a unix box with a propietary GUI.
No its a text editor dammit. It can't read mail. render html, interpet lisp or anything liek that. Well it does have ruby, perl, tcl and python bindings and support for make, but its still just a text editor and that hwo we like it.
Yeah but it has to be just affordable enough that it makes it less than trivial for someone to come in as the discount airliner for low population areas. There are a few problems with lazifaire capitalism, but I'd rather have to deal with fighting the opression of a few than living with the opression of all. Also were talking plane tickets and the prices ar high simply due to lack of demand and competition. There is no great conspiracry to repress people in low population states.
Yeah, but they have no business running healthcare. Why is it that doctors make less and less money these days yet healthcare costss so much. Bureacrats, thats why. And how do we get rid of bureacrats? Deregulation is the answer.
Look what it did for the airlines. At first everyone complained because if you got on a plane you had to sit next to people that previously could only afford to go greyhound. Nowadays, all those people take southwest airlines. And the other airlines still offer more bang for your buck in terms of service. Also if you don't mind being packed in, and have a few drinks if its a long flight southwest isn't that bad at all.
Yes we do need some taxes, and the government is best at doing certain things liek paving roads. However, we should severly limit what they do. Government is a neccessary evil.
"THE NCSA HTTPd IS NO LONGER UNDER DEVELOPMENT.
It is an unsupported product. "
Well guess what, some of the codebase is in apache. Probally not much at this point, but apache was derivied from a series of httpd patches. A-patch-e was a play on words to that fact.
Seriously speaking does anyone with user interfaces for the blind experiences know how well VIM and EMACS stack up in these situations. I personally think VIM would be far better suited for blind use simply because Using Escape-Meta-Alt-Ctl would require signifigant amount of time not in the touch typing position and the various non standards for placement of meta keys would make it hard for blind people to switch keyboards.
From what I hear lynx is a great blind web browser, but I'm not aware how the accessibality extensions work.
hahaha, once again linux users proud of a feature even os/2 had before them.
Hey I ran OS/2 warp! Look on the OpenWattcom list for people that still do.
Seriously though I'm pretty sure NTFS 5 has some kind of journaling and the BSDs have softupdates which are obvisiously superior because *BSDs are in the minority and still yell louder about softupdates being better.
However, linux may have been a late comer, but look at how many journaling file systems it supports. Rieser, JFS, EXT3, plus a bunch more. If I were going to boot a zillion OSes off one machine I'd probally have a small linux install with EVERY filesystem enabled in the kernel and be able to mount every file system on my hard drive.
With the whole Condo on the same WiFi network, you're likely to have bandwidth and security issues. Personally, I would recommend going with the ehternet approach all going into a shared T-1.
Well not neccesserally. Sure wep is laughable, but theres always IPSEC. Should be releatively easy to setup some kind of turnkey VPN insert cdrom and double click. Just make sure you offer some level of mac support, depending on the number of mac users it might be best just to say ok I'll set it up for you or give the info to your tech guy.
You also might want to contact various wifi vendors see if you can get reseller status and make a few bucks on the wireless cards. Most people will buy what you tell thm to because they dont know or care that any 802.11 car should work. I'd stay away from symbol personally but I just don't liek the company the cards are decent but expensive. If you go with nortel firewalls you can use there vpn client that provides a turnkey solution. A client of our company has nortel firewalls and nortel made them a modified vpn vlient with all the setings hardwired in and the install program was completly automated. Of course I'd like it if I could only have there subnet routed through the VPN cleients virtual networking device so I dont need to use a seperate computer just to telnet into one cleints as/400s while I babysit all my other machines from my linux laptop.
You know perhaps Rob should charge for ask slashdot submissions and give free subscriptions for good advice. I'm not neccesserally implying that my advice is particularly good but put togwether all of slashdot is definatly worth at lweast one good consultant.
Wow scary thought I auctually misassumed a slashdot reader to be female. We all know the females are all out of work VB programmers. But not all vb programmers are pretend to be females on slashdot.
Perhaps I'm showing my social ineptness but what are you implying? That she's so vain it pisses of the other girls? That she's a lesbian becasue she has male friends and a six pack? That your jealous that you can't meet a girl like this yourself so you put her down?
I was going tu burn myu mod points on this article but that is truely a scarey thing. As an "early adopter" that owns the original George forman I have to speak up here.
back in my day we didn't have no fancy USB connections for our George Foreman. All we had was a orang light and a 120v power adapter. The light would go on and off randomly but we didn't know why. However, we were confidant that it served as an important indicator to someone somewhere. We didnt have no sissy computer controlled timers and heat regulators. Hell, we didn't even have a timer or lever to adjust the thermometer. And you know what we liked it.
As a final aside I did indeed have to walk 15 minles in the snow uphill both ways between the fridge and the George forman to cook anything.
Well being computer sciense isn't a science and has little to do with computers all computer science documentation is comopute science free. Oh and the linux laptop howto is not computer science. Not trying to start a flame war, its just not compsci
What I'd like to see is a command line oriented embedded OS. Ok, I'd probally not use it being it came from MS but I mean that'd be useful for things that don't have any kind of display screen.
Uh Unless your Wife/Mother isn't white that it would be a WBE (Womans business enterprise). But while were talking tax avoidance strategies, Have the owner on paper be a minority woman and the address of the business be in a depressed business area where you can get additional tax breaks. Remember the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the CPA doing your taxes.
Why not tax tires? Tarrifs on "bad fuels" can be used to subsidize road maintainance, while a good portion can come from tires. Sure tires will more than double in price becasue of it, but you'll save all that money on gas and "vice taxes" are incrediablly high on many items. Most of the money you spend on alcohol goes towards Uncle Sam.
Apparently my information was slightly mixed up. Refer the the above interview. While SMB was not developed by IBM, it was an open standard implemented by several parties that were trying to jump on the "hey lets sell our uxix boxes as PC file servers" bandwagon. Well Andrew originially wrote samba as a "clone" of Pathworks for a sun he needed to mount fileshares on becasue for some reason his PC-nfs implemtation could not run at the same time as his pathworks client software. Later on he found out how useful his software was for other peopel and eventually the samba project became what it is today.
The point is pedophilia is by definition a social disorder and is generally accepted as being detrimential to both parties involved. In other words its bad even in theory. Daycare on the other hand, is good in theory, and when not used as a substitute for parenting, but instead as a social development envirorment that keeps the kids occupied and out of trouble while the parents are earning money. I was sent to pre-school even though my mother stayed at home. It was only three days a week for a few hours, but I got to interact with other four year olds and was prepared for kindergarten on a social level. Of course big bird taught me more about letters, colors and shapes than pre first grade classroom education, but thats more to the credit of Jim Henson and the CTW than discredit to Miss Marcella and Sister Margret.
Definitely. The fact that Microsoft added certain features that people want to their server OS has nothing to do with it. And we all know the only reason people use Apache is because it's free.
Perhaps not the only, but a major reason. The SMB protocol was originally written so linux machines could talk to DEC machines. Later MS embraced and extended the protocol and that spurred samba into becomming what it is today. How come samba (or what it was called back then) or DEC didn't instantly become heavy hitters in the file serving world. Well Samba did need some work and now is getting acceptance due to grassroots marketing and newer features, and DEC just never marketed a product as a server fro windows machines. Sure there would have to be new code written to add some spit and polish, but lack of marketing was why it never competed with MS.
Sure DEC probally never wanted to get in the business of making file servers for windows, but nonetheless it could be done. There probally were a few people that knew it could be done and did it on there own because they had old DEC machines lying around with hard drive space to spare. The point is yes being windows NT server was made to be a file server made it the best tool for the job at the time compared to every other SMB solution. However, it was arguably not the best file serving OS in general that could somehow be made to serve files to Windows clients. However, regardless of the quality o Novell MS marketdroids created the appearance of a superior product in NT and that sold. Even while most people concede that NT was better for fileserving to Windows machines than DEC it was definatly the total lack of marketing that prevented DEC from becoming a noteable contender in Windows file serving.
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Well pick your favorite Doom engine expansion (jDoom, etc) set up a server running the FreeDoom IWAD, and all the Pwads you'd like and get read for me to kick you ass from my 75mhz IBM crAptivia running FreeBSD.
Linux is still AFAICT a hobby / niche OS
I don't think your trying to start a flame war here, but I definatly think Linux has moved beyond niche/hobby OS. I'd hardly call the server market and the embedded market niches, and if so no more than the desktop market. I guess its a matter of opinion when a niche becomes a major market segment.
I don't think OS/2 becoming Open source would send make a big dent in the windows marketshare. Sure its a great OS, but so is OSX, Beos and a default SuSE install. App wise it don't bring anything to the table new, and most of the Open Source "killer appa" are ported to Warp already.
If it did get open sourced and then proced to kill linux and windows then: "The king is dead, long live the king."
If IBM released OS/2 as open source, both Windows AND linux would rapidly become hobby software.
I'll be honest I'll go to my scrap pile and build me a box and Install OS/2 and OpenWatcom immediatly if it goes open source, but my laptop would stay linux and my servers would remain OpenBSD. And lets be honest with all the GNU tools already available for Warp my box would quickly become a unix box with a propietary GUI.
No its a text editor dammit. It can't read mail. render html, interpet lisp or anything liek that. Well it does have ruby, perl, tcl and python bindings and support for make, but its still just a text editor and that hwo we like it.
Yeah but it has to be just affordable enough that it makes it less than trivial for someone to come in as the discount airliner for low population areas. There are a few problems with lazifaire capitalism, but I'd rather have to deal with fighting the opression of a few than living with the opression of all. Also were talking plane tickets and the prices ar high simply due to lack of demand and competition. There is no great conspiracry to repress people in low population states.
Actually this is a myth [apache.org].
While the name was not given because it was based on httpd and patches, it was still bassed on HTTPD.
Yeah, but they have no business running healthcare. Why is it that doctors make less and less money these days yet healthcare costss so much. Bureacrats, thats why. And how do we get rid of bureacrats? Deregulation is the answer.
Look what it did for the airlines. At first everyone complained because if you got on a plane you had to sit next to people that previously could only afford to go greyhound. Nowadays, all those people take southwest airlines. And the other airlines still offer more bang for your buck in terms of service. Also if you don't mind being packed in, and have a few drinks if its a long flight southwest isn't that bad at all.
Yes we do need some taxes, and the government is best at doing certain things liek paving roads. However, we should severly limit what they do. Government is a neccessary evil.
"THE NCSA HTTPd IS NO LONGER UNDER DEVELOPMENT. It is an unsupported product. "
Well guess what, some of the codebase is in apache. Probally not much at this point, but apache was derivied from a series of httpd patches. A-patch-e was a play on words to that fact.
Seriously speaking does anyone with user interfaces for the blind experiences know how well VIM and EMACS stack up in these situations. I personally think VIM would be far better suited for blind use simply because Using Escape-Meta-Alt-Ctl would require signifigant amount of time not in the touch typing position and the various non standards for placement of meta keys would make it hard for blind people to switch keyboards.
From what I hear lynx is a great blind web browser, but I'm not aware how the accessibality extensions work.
hahaha, once again linux users proud of a feature even os/2 had before them.
Hey I ran OS/2 warp! Look on the OpenWattcom list for people that still do.
Seriously though I'm pretty sure NTFS 5 has some kind of journaling and the BSDs have softupdates which are obvisiously superior because *BSDs are in the minority and still yell louder about softupdates being better.
However, linux may have been a late comer, but look at how many journaling file systems it supports. Rieser, JFS, EXT3, plus a bunch more. If I were going to boot a zillion OSes off one machine I'd probally have a small linux install with EVERY filesystem enabled in the kernel and be able to mount every file system on my hard drive.
With the whole Condo on the same WiFi network, you're likely to have bandwidth and security issues. Personally, I would recommend going with the ehternet approach all going into a shared T-1.
Well not neccesserally. Sure wep is laughable, but theres always IPSEC. Should be releatively easy to setup some kind of turnkey VPN insert cdrom and double click. Just make sure you offer some level of mac support, depending on the number of mac users it might be best just to say ok I'll set it up for you or give the info to your tech guy.
You also might want to contact various wifi vendors see if you can get reseller status and make a few bucks on the wireless cards. Most people will buy what you tell thm to because they dont know or care that any 802.11 car should work. I'd stay away from symbol personally but I just don't liek the company the cards are decent but expensive. If you go with nortel firewalls you can use there vpn client that provides a turnkey solution. A client of our company has nortel firewalls and nortel made them a modified vpn vlient with all the setings hardwired in and the install program was completly automated. Of course I'd like it if I could only have there subnet routed through the VPN cleients virtual networking device so I dont need to use a seperate computer just to telnet into one cleints as/400s while I babysit all my other machines from my linux laptop.
You know perhaps Rob should charge for ask slashdot submissions and give free subscriptions for good advice. I'm not neccesserally implying that my advice is particularly good but put togwether all of slashdot is definatly worth at lweast one good consultant.
Wow scary thought I auctually misassumed a slashdot reader to be female. We all know the females are all out of work VB programmers. But not all vb programmers are pretend to be females on slashdot.
Perhaps I'm showing my social ineptness but what are you implying? That she's so vain it pisses of the other girls? That she's a lesbian becasue she has male friends and a six pack? That your jealous that you can't meet a girl like this yourself so you put her down?
I was going tu burn myu mod points on this article but that is truely a scarey thing. As an "early adopter" that owns the original George forman I have to speak up here.
back in my day we didn't have no fancy USB connections for our George Foreman. All we had was a orang light and a 120v power adapter. The light would go on and off randomly but we didn't know why. However, we were confidant that it served as an important indicator to someone somewhere. We didnt have no sissy computer controlled timers and heat regulators. Hell, we didn't even have a timer or lever to adjust the thermometer. And you know what we liked it.
As a final aside I did indeed have to walk 15 minles in the snow uphill both ways between the fridge and the George forman to cook anything.
Well being computer sciense isn't a science and has little to do with computers all computer science documentation is comopute science free. Oh and the linux laptop howto is not computer science. Not trying to start a flame war, its just not compsci
What I'd like to see is a command line oriented embedded OS. Ok, I'd probally not use it being it came from MS but I mean that'd be useful for things that don't have any kind of display screen.
Well do what I do, sa your runing windows 2000, say your clicking on Winpoet and that it isn't connecting.
Well sometimes you do need ther supportto tell them there line is down.
Uh Unless your Wife/Mother isn't white that it would be a WBE (Womans business enterprise). But while were talking tax avoidance strategies, Have the owner on paper be a minority woman and the address of the business be in a depressed business area where you can get additional tax breaks. Remember the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the CPA doing your taxes.
Why not tax tires? Tarrifs on "bad fuels" can be used to subsidize road maintainance, while a good portion can come from tires. Sure tires will more than double in price becasue of it, but you'll save all that money on gas and "vice taxes" are incrediablly high on many items. Most of the money you spend on alcohol goes towards Uncle Sam.
http://www.iar.unlp.edu.ar/~fede/revistas/lj/Magaz ines/LJ7/2858.html
Apparently my information was slightly mixed up. Refer the the above interview. While SMB was not developed by IBM, it was an open standard implemented by several parties that were trying to jump on the "hey lets sell our uxix boxes as PC file servers" bandwagon. Well Andrew originially wrote samba as a "clone" of Pathworks for a sun he needed to mount fileshares on becasue for some reason his PC-nfs implemtation could not run at the same time as his pathworks client software. Later on he found out how useful his software was for other peopel and eventually the samba project became what it is today.
The point is pedophilia is by definition a social disorder and is generally accepted as being detrimential to both parties involved. In other words its bad even in theory. Daycare on the other hand, is good in theory, and when not used as a substitute for parenting, but instead as a social development envirorment that keeps the kids occupied and out of trouble while the parents are earning money. I was sent to pre-school even though my mother stayed at home. It was only three days a week for a few hours, but I got to interact with other four year olds and was prepared for kindergarten on a social level. Of course big bird taught me more about letters, colors and shapes than pre first grade classroom education, but thats more to the credit of Jim Henson and the CTW than discredit to Miss Marcella and Sister Margret.
Uh not really. Pedophilia is not a nurturing releationship but a daycare worker should be nurturing.
Definitely. The fact that Microsoft added certain features that people want to their server OS has nothing to do with it. And we all know the only reason people use Apache is because it's free.
Perhaps not the only, but a major reason. The SMB protocol was originally written so linux machines could talk to DEC machines. Later MS embraced and extended the protocol and that spurred samba into becomming what it is today. How come samba (or what it was called back then) or DEC didn't instantly become heavy hitters in the file serving world. Well Samba did need some work and now is getting acceptance due to grassroots marketing and newer features, and DEC just never marketed a product as a server fro windows machines. Sure there would have to be new code written to add some spit and polish, but lack of marketing was why it never competed with MS.
Sure DEC probally never wanted to get in the business of making file servers for windows, but nonetheless it could be done. There probally were a few people that knew it could be done and did it on there own because they had old DEC machines lying around with hard drive space to spare. The point is yes being windows NT server was made to be a file server made it the best tool for the job at the time compared to every other SMB solution. However, it was arguably not the best file serving OS in general that could somehow be made to serve files to Windows clients. However, regardless of the quality o Novell MS marketdroids created the appearance of a superior product in NT and that sold. Even while most people concede that NT was better for fileserving to Windows machines than DEC it was definatly the total lack of marketing that prevented DEC from becoming a noteable contender in Windows file serving.
ROTFL, but exactly how does learning to count withe an edutainment website cause them to learn to countin HEX?