That this was the most eye opening thing I have seen linked on/. in a long time. Really makes all the SCO and Ipod stuff seem kinda small. I mean that was one of the most surreal things I have experienced in a long time.
An update for Mozilla/Firefox (or whatever it is called this week) -- that will let you easily turn OFF flash support on a site by site basis? With Pop Up Blocking....Flash/Shockwave Blocking would be a logical next step.
SCO are smart cookies in picking Microsoft to bed down with -- because we all know from experience that Microsoft is pretty untouchable in the court room....They have a golden "get outta jail free card" that they never have to turn in.
I mean anybody that followed the anti-trust trial at the national level (like me) has to still have their jaws hanging on the floor over the fact that Microsoft's chief execs are not hanging upside down in the town center.
Suing just one or 2 companies for using Linux would be like suing random people for breathing and or drinking water....You really can't just pick and choose when suing someone can you? (Unless you are the RIAA....but at least they are going after teenage "thiefs" rather than respectable companies.)
Don't put anything cool on the internet unless the old pipes are wide enough to handle a few thousand curious onlookers (/. effect)
Note to others: Upgrade the pipes and hardware. If you are paying $5.99 a year to your provider or hosting your cool stuff on your cable modem.
Anybody have any idea what the basic "sweet spot" is to hardware/softwatre/bandwidth needs in order to laugh back at the/. effect -- and say keep bringin it boys.
Also -- I know this is off-subject, however since I can't seem to get to the actual content, I figured it was no big deal to venture off the path.
This would be a good time to invest in the power company. Every time I come up with a cool solution to a problem in the computer age...my power bill goes up $15 a month.
On the flip side -- I have not had to heat the basement all winter.
Amen. I always looked at online music procurment as a way to get the songs that I could not purchase off the top 40 rack at my local target. Yet any "modern", "legal" -- file sharing service assumes that I would want to buy crappy top 40 of today or yesterday.
No kidding. IBM does not even offer Lotus Notes clients for Linux, yet says that Office is the only thing that is needed so badly. Well as a "Notes Shop" I don't think the loss of office would be as hard to take as finding a new groupware/email client.
And speaking of Lotus and IBM -- do they even remember they own them? 123 and AmiPro in the open could have been a good start for a future office suite to rival MS Office.
IBM had better start eating their own cooking...Anyone heard why Notes Client has not been ported?
MySQL to Postgres is akin to the whole MP3 to OGG OR VHS to Beta.
Sometimes technically better does not win out over market hold and saturation. One could (I am sure) publish a whole book on how MySQL got entrenched over a more feature laden database.
If I can get a discount card to shop where all of you/. technogeeks shop? Everytime something comes up that involves custom hardware solutions (much like this topic) I see countless people saying, "well I could build that for a hundred bucks or less...." or "prices on those have dropped to $30", but usually when I start to price the stuff....It is more realistic to what I originally thought costwise. Sure I could get a big old ugly ATX case with the sound of a screeching 747 and a 40 gig hardrive and celeron for $100-200...But in reality...to do something like this "the right way" would require a super small and asthetic case and mini board. You can bare bones that for about $200-$300 and then add another $100 for the CPU. Then you need a big and fast HD for about $100. A good recordable DVD for about $100. MPEG hardware encoders to do the PVR stuff are about $150. So in reality you are at least $600-$700 to have a start. Yet always some/.'s say that...."yea, I can do that for $100" and have money left over for pizza and beer.
I wonder how? Or am I the only one that has not figured out the/. math that comes from estimates based on people who are not actually buying the hardware....only estimating what they think something should cost.
I like Apple because they steal lots of code that was meant to be freely installed on open hardware platforms....add in a few bells and whistles...slap it on some non-standard hardware...and then call it theirs and forget to "Dance with who brung yu". I think if you use code that was free, you should release your code as well...and everybody benefits.
Of getting some good device drivers to go with that copy of freeDos? Wonder if they will also throw in a 5 1/4 floppy drive. Damn I am a sucker for this retro stuff.
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Linux is not comfortable being sold or consolidated....Let it run free and remain free.
Anyone that has tried to make money selling or sueing Linux has fallen victim to the geek equivelent of being on the cover of SI. A fast and painful death to all who try to pen her in or shut her down.
Due yourself a favor and dont sell out to "the man". Install Debian or Slackware and come back to reality.
Only about 10,000/. users could have told you this was a "the old one was not even cold yet" dupe. I say we donate about 5 bucks apiece to a paypal account -- and send one of the 10,000 all of the stories 10 minutes before you post....and we can work as the new/. "dupe bot" cluster.
Apparently they are suprised to hear that internet users are more social than non-users: internet users watch less television, read more books and engage in more social activities."
That's because I can find out anything RIGHT now by clickety clicking....rather that sitting in front of my TV and listening to the sound bite commercials from the news channells all night waiting to "find out at 10..."
If they are going to hold me accountable based on a certain usage....Then their "unlimited" advertisment should include a cap. If they want to limit me to 50 Gig a month...Cap me at 128k. That way YOU and I both know what the game plan is. You won't have to worry every time a new version of Slackware comes out (and I want to share it with as many people as possible...) and I won't have to worry about counting bytes...and turning my computer off on the 10th of each month.
My Zaurus 5600 does all that and more and is only slightly bigger
Does your Zaurus 5600 have the 20 or 40 gig hard drive?
I don't really see PDA's as an option for video devices....They have the CPU and Screen part down...and yes the software is in place...But buying 20 or 40 1 Gig CF cards would cost between 12 and 25 thousand dollars...and still require you to swap them out in between episodes of the simpsons.
Rom 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Saints above! Even St. Paul predicts that FreeBSD is dying!
Good one. First belly laugh of the new year. Kudos.
Get a laptop with an extra battery. Buy a power invertor for your car....That way when your 2 batteries die...You can start your car...and charge them back up.
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That this was the most eye opening thing I have seen linked on /. in a long time. Really makes all the SCO and Ipod stuff seem kinda small. I mean that was one of the most surreal things I have experienced in a long time.
An update for Mozilla/Firefox (or whatever it is called this week) -- that will let you easily turn OFF flash support on a site by site basis? With Pop Up Blocking....Flash/Shockwave Blocking would be a logical next step.
SCO are smart cookies in picking Microsoft to bed down with -- because we all know from experience that Microsoft is pretty untouchable in the court room....They have a golden "get outta jail free card" that they never have to turn in.
I mean anybody that followed the anti-trust trial at the national level (like me) has to still have their jaws hanging on the floor over the fact that Microsoft's chief execs are not hanging upside down in the town center.
"She aint heavy, She's my laptop"
+ For 2 grand I can buy 2 8 lb laptops I think. So they must be charging by the lb.
Suing just one or 2 companies for using Linux would be like suing random people for breathing and or drinking water....You really can't just pick and choose when suing someone can you? (Unless you are the RIAA....but at least they are going after teenage "thiefs" rather than respectable companies.)
This generations "Feature Will Be Available in future firmware upgrades" is really starting to sound like last generations "The Check is in the mail".
Don't put anything cool on the internet unless the old pipes are wide enough to handle a few thousand curious onlookers (/. effect)
/. effect -- and say keep bringin it boys.
Note to others: Upgrade the pipes and hardware. If you are paying $5.99 a year to your provider or hosting your cool stuff on your cable modem.
Anybody have any idea what the basic "sweet spot" is to hardware/softwatre/bandwidth needs in order to laugh back at the
Also -- I know this is off-subject, however since I can't seem to get to the actual content, I figured it was no big deal to venture off the path.
This would be a good time to invest in the power company. Every time I come up with a cool solution to a problem in the computer age...my power bill goes up $15 a month.
On the flip side -- I have not had to heat the basement all winter.
Amen. I always looked at online music procurment as a way to get the songs that I could not purchase off the top 40 rack at my local target. Yet any "modern", "legal" -- file sharing service assumes that I would want to buy crappy top 40 of today or yesterday.
No kidding. IBM does not even offer Lotus Notes clients for Linux, yet says that Office is the only thing that is needed so badly. Well as a "Notes Shop" I don't think the loss of office would be as hard to take as finding a new groupware/email client.
And speaking of Lotus and IBM -- do they even remember they own them? 123 and AmiPro in the open could have been a good start for a future office suite to rival MS Office.
IBM had better start eating their own cooking...Anyone heard why Notes Client has not been ported?
MySQL to Postgres is akin to the whole MP3 to OGG OR VHS to Beta.
Sometimes technically better does not win out over market hold and saturation. One could (I am sure) publish a whole book on how MySQL got entrenched over a more feature laden database.
The 2.0 kernel maintainer says: "In autumn 2002 I also started to work quite a lot for the Debian-project"
ha thats it, I betcha Debian Stable will be upgrading to 2.0 any day now.
If I can get a discount card to shop where all of you /. technogeeks shop? Everytime something comes up that involves custom hardware solutions (much like this topic) I see countless people saying, "well I could build that for a hundred bucks or less...." or "prices on those have dropped to $30", but usually when I start to price the stuff....It is more realistic to what I originally thought costwise. Sure I could get a big old ugly ATX case with the sound of a screeching 747 and a 40 gig hardrive and celeron for $100-200...But in reality...to do something like this "the right way" would require a super small and asthetic case and mini board. You can bare bones that for about $200-$300 and then add another $100 for the CPU. Then you need a big and fast HD for about $100. A good recordable DVD for about $100. MPEG hardware encoders to do the PVR stuff are about $150. So in reality you are at least $600-$700 to have a start. Yet always some /.'s say that...."yea, I can do that for $100" and have money left over for pizza and beer.
/. math that comes from estimates based on people who are not actually buying the hardware....only estimating what they think something should cost.
I wonder how? Or am I the only one that has not figured out the
I like Apple because they steal lots of code that was meant to be freely installed on open hardware platforms....add in a few bells and whistles...slap it on some non-standard hardware...and then call it theirs and forget to "Dance with who brung yu". I think if you use code that was free, you should release your code as well...and everybody benefits.
Of getting some good device drivers to go with that copy of freeDos? Wonder if they will also throw in a 5 1/4 floppy drive. Damn I am a sucker for this retro stuff.
Linux is not comfortable being sold or consolidated....Let it run free and remain free.
Anyone that has tried to make money selling or sueing Linux has fallen victim to the geek equivelent of being on the cover of SI. A fast and painful death to all who try to pen her in or shut her down.
Due yourself a favor and dont sell out to "the man". Install Debian or Slackware and come back to reality.
Great point. Every year older I get...I find myself listening to more and more AM radio talk and sports shows in the car.
Only about 10,000 /. users could have told you this was a "the old one was not even cold yet" dupe. I say we donate about 5 bucks apiece to a paypal account -- and send one of the 10,000 all of the stories 10 minutes before you post....and we can work as the new /. "dupe bot" cluster.
Apparently they are suprised to hear that internet users are more social than non-users: internet users watch less television, read more books and engage in more social activities."
That's because I can find out anything RIGHT now by clickety clicking....rather that sitting in front of my TV and listening to the sound bite commercials from the news channells all night waiting to "find out at 10..."
Yea...He must be shopping at someplace I don't know. I have yet to see the 1 GIG CF cards or the 512 SD cards for less that $200 or so.
If they are going to hold me accountable based on a certain usage....Then their "unlimited" advertisment should include a cap. If they want to limit me to 50 Gig a month...Cap me at 128k. That way YOU and I both know what the game plan is. You won't have to worry every time a new version of Slackware comes out (and I want to share it with as many people as possible...) and I won't have to worry about counting bytes...and turning my computer off on the 10th of each month.
My Zaurus 5600 does all that and more and is only slightly bigger
Does your Zaurus 5600 have the 20 or 40 gig hard drive?
I don't really see PDA's as an option for video devices....They have the CPU and Screen part down...and yes the software is in place...But buying 20 or 40 1 Gig CF cards would cost between 12 and 25 thousand dollars...and still require you to swap them out in between episodes of the simpsons.
Rom 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Saints above! Even St. Paul predicts that FreeBSD is dying!
Good one. First belly laugh of the new year. Kudos.
Get a laptop with an extra battery. Buy a power invertor for your car....That way when your 2 batteries die...You can start your car...and charge them back up.