So, in your mac example, the killer apps were (I repeat WERE) adobe applications. How many years has it been since Adobe started releasing for windows, 7? Maybe 6, but who's counting.
It may have been the killer app for two or three years, it just took a little while for that perception to change.
The reason the mac's were hugely popular for a few days, wasn't the "killer app", that is a very small market, it was because of thier friendliness to education.
Will a few niche uses for linux make a difference, somewhat, but getting it into mainstream computer culture is far more important if we want to see a significant increase in market share.
The power of linux isn't any one app, its the fact that you have enough tools to do your job. Could you imaging building a house with MS hammer and nails when you realized that you really needed a drywall gun, a few saws, and many very specialized tools?
All of thier scripts are envoked as such:
----
Your COmmanD OF D3ZTRuCTi`N: irckill.sh -h
USAGE:
irckill.sh -s server (DEFAULT: efnet)
Result: procedes to destroy the network "server" exists on.
Your COmmanD OF D3ZTRuCTi`N: irckill.sh
Target: "DEFAULT" destoryed.
but it could be used on irc.coolfellas.com if it existed.
It just seems, most script kiddies are to dumb to care who they are attacking, so they see an example of how to atack server XYZ and that's what they try. Immagine, write such a script, place it on a watering hole website (like the poor, forgotten rootshell and ten thousand freshman college kiddies download it and try to run it on thier "l337" redhat box, which they had an upper classman setup "the right way" so they could try haxoring.
So, these ten thousand kiddies all run this script on a few computers right around the same time (a week or so) and suddenly, wow, target "DEFAULT" isn't sitting so pretty on its network.
Politicians just don't understand what is a threat and what is not. If DVD technology is indeed a threat, it is already well known enough in china to not make a difference at all. Besides, taiwan already makes DVD hardware.
a while back, on dateline NBC or something like that. They had a whole special about artificial hearts and how far they have come. They talked for about a half hour about a guy who recieved a temporary heart which was a very primitive mechanical heart, complete with an external battery and an alarm to alert the patient when the battery got low. For when the battery failed, there was a hand pump bulb for keeping minimal circulation until a fresh battery could be discovered.
After that section, they talked about new research on artificial hearts and all of the obsticles which they had to overcome to get them to work well, including the external power supply connection. Which, ended up being a set of coils under the skin which recieve current from a set of coils above the skin. EMF is fun for heart patients.
These are very simple devices, I am going to look for a link or more information about the plastic bag hearts.
Could everyone stop thier multi-hour downloads of the iso, and take thier slackware 7.0 dist tree and rsync it to 8.0? Should save sourceforge.net a little bandwidth.
Package management schmanagement. Real unix users do not worry about such things, if you have a mind you can manage your packages. Read README.INSTALL files and know your system. If you are too lazy for that, slackware has had package management since slack 3, pkgtool works very well.
of that obviously didn't know a thing about what he was writing about, in fact, why he pinned this to Los Alamos scientists is beyond me, a discussion of this occurs in most undergraduate QM classes.
Time is the difference this appeal made. Just time. Remember, cases like this can last 20 years, which has happened before in other very high profile cases. Microsoft didn't need to overturn the verdict, all they need to do is drag the legal process on as long as possible. They were found guilty, that will not change, but as long as they are in court, the penalties do not get applied to them. Understand?
Yeah, but VNC actually is a bandwidth hog! I had to upgrade my hub to support 100Mbps because a single VNC session required roughly 100KBps when in heavy use. VNC just doesn't cut it.
I agree with the good senator, but only on the first amendment issue. The meaning of the first amendment originally was to protect POLITICAL speach, but in the years since then, it has come to be to protect any form of communication, including telemarketing, spammers, etc. However, I do agree that spamming businesses need to become more respectable, sending from false addresses and such tactless behavior. I recieve a number of newsletters, and I enjoy them, but there are a few which I never signed up for which do not come from real email adresses. There should be limits on what spammers can do, maybe a change in thier actions will result in a change in attitude toward thier practice.
I noticed a little inconsistansy in MS's words and actions as well, but with different issues, the pressures they have been placing on AOL. MS has been squabling with AOL about including the new AOL 6.0 with windows XP for quite some time, this did not shock me. However, when they started pressuring AOL to adopt MSN Messenger protocols so "our phone can talk to your phone".
Placing this with all the new opinions from folks such as this writer, I am starting to come up with my own intrepretation of what is happening.
MS is warry of impending breakup, they pray that thier lawyers can get the off on thier appeal, but they are not certain. Because of the threat of seperation, they are trying to strengthen each of the portions of thier company, by increasing market share in the OS market, server market, ISP market, and applications market. They simply do not some small off the wall contender entering the market to take the lead during the confusion of the breakup.
MS isn't trying to control everything forever, they are simply trying to increase thier market share so that thier divided companies will be in good positions after the breakup.
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but MS is really scaring me lately.
not exactly. I always understood that if I made changes to GPL'd code, it remains my choice to distribute the modified software. I can use it internally, have it running on any machine I want, but if I decide to distribute it to others, then the source code needs to be disclosed and be GPL'd.
wait a minute:
at 2200 mph, an engine such as the one in your car would not be very efficient, in fact, it would probally explode or something cool when you started pumping gasoline vapor into the exhaust system because the piston was going up and down too fast for the ignition of the gasoline to occur. It would be a very effective gasoline vaporizer, maybe something like a flame thrower.
the neutrinos arrived 8 days before the light. Probally because they could pass through the ultra dense shockwave of the supernova, while the light was trapped.
for the RIAA, a monolithic music recording industry doesn't really fit into the new equation, they simply are not needed.
When will a widespread micropayment system happen? Soon, would be my guess, the online advertising model doesn't work very well, and I wouldn't mind paying say $3 a month to use slashdot. I would be very happy.
They were concerned that the explosion would ignite the atmosphere. Fermi raised this issue and they did the calculations to determine the temperature which the atmosphere would ignite and verified that thier little fission bomb was not even close to hot enough to ignite the atmosphere. There was no concern about fissioning the entire earth. They took no chances and made no gambles. Others, not the scientists involved, percieved problems which they did not understand, and that is what you have heard about.
hold the phone ---
They have thier power lines running all over hell and back, couldn't they just run a small chunk of fiber optic line with it for communication and controls?
are you suggesting that they don't run an operating system? They probally don't run a traditional operating system, its a special use machine, and frankly wouldn't benifit from having internet explorer (uh, I mean win2k).
Why the hell would important computers which control the power grid be accessable from the internet in any way. I realize everyone wants to look at thier porn while they are at work, but bring it on CD god damn it!
Repeat after me:
Mission critical systems which to not explicitly require internet access should not have internet access or be on the same network as machines with internet access.
Its all about which machines can be trusted, and as far as I am concerned, any machine which is accessable from the internet or has internet access is not to be trusted.
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So, in your mac example, the killer apps were (I repeat WERE) adobe applications. How many years has it been since Adobe started releasing for windows, 7? Maybe 6, but who's counting.
It may have been the killer app for two or three years, it just took a little while for that perception to change.
The reason the mac's were hugely popular for a few days, wasn't the "killer app", that is a very small market, it was because of thier friendliness to education.
Will a few niche uses for linux make a difference, somewhat, but getting it into mainstream computer culture is far more important if we want to see a significant increase in market share.
The power of linux isn't any one app, its the fact that you have enough tools to do your job. Could you imaging building a house with MS hammer and nails when you realized that you really needed a drywall gun, a few saws, and many very specialized tools?
The article said an injunction prior to the distribution of windows XP, not blocking the distribution of windows XP.
All of thier scripts are envoked as such:
----
Your COmmanD OF D3ZTRuCTi`N: irckill.sh -h
USAGE:
irckill.sh -s server (DEFAULT: efnet)
Result: procedes to destroy the network "server" exists on.
Your COmmanD OF D3ZTRuCTi`N: irckill.sh
Target: "DEFAULT" destoryed.
but it could be used on irc.coolfellas.com if it existed.
It just seems, most script kiddies are to dumb to care who they are attacking, so they see an example of how to atack server XYZ and that's what they try. Immagine, write such a script, place it on a watering hole website (like the poor, forgotten rootshell and ten thousand freshman college kiddies download it and try to run it on thier "l337" redhat box, which they had an upper classman setup "the right way" so they could try haxoring.
So, these ten thousand kiddies all run this script on a few computers right around the same time (a week or so) and suddenly, wow, target "DEFAULT" isn't sitting so pretty on its network.
That is the way it is.
Politicians just don't understand what is a threat and what is not. If DVD technology is indeed a threat, it is already well known enough in china to not make a difference at all. Besides, taiwan already makes DVD hardware.
a while back, on dateline NBC or something like that. They had a whole special about artificial hearts and how far they have come. They talked for about a half hour about a guy who recieved a temporary heart which was a very primitive mechanical heart, complete with an external battery and an alarm to alert the patient when the battery got low. For when the battery failed, there was a hand pump bulb for keeping minimal circulation until a fresh battery could be discovered. After that section, they talked about new research on artificial hearts and all of the obsticles which they had to overcome to get them to work well, including the external power supply connection. Which, ended up being a set of coils under the skin which recieve current from a set of coils above the skin. EMF is fun for heart patients. These are very simple devices, I am going to look for a link or more information about the plastic bag hearts.
line of sight restrictions on my TV remote piss me off, just think how pissed I'll be when I can't take my laptop to the bathroom with me.
Could everyone stop thier multi-hour downloads of the iso, and take thier slackware 7.0 dist tree and rsync it to 8.0? Should save sourceforge.net a little bandwidth.
Package management schmanagement. Real unix users do not worry about such things, if you have a mind you can manage your packages. Read README.INSTALL files and know your system. If you are too lazy for that, slackware has had package management since slack 3, pkgtool works very well.
and I'm going to read it, too. Maybe twice.
of that obviously didn't know a thing about what he was writing about, in fact, why he pinned this to Los Alamos scientists is beyond me, a discussion of this occurs in most undergraduate QM classes.
Time is the difference this appeal made. Just time. Remember, cases like this can last 20 years, which has happened before in other very high profile cases. Microsoft didn't need to overturn the verdict, all they need to do is drag the legal process on as long as possible. They were found guilty, that will not change, but as long as they are in court, the penalties do not get applied to them. Understand?
Yeah, but VNC actually is a bandwidth hog! I had to upgrade my hub to support 100Mbps because a single VNC session required roughly 100KBps when in heavy use. VNC just doesn't cut it.
and mirroring across transformers would allow for increased numbers to access.
I agree with the good senator, but only on the first amendment issue. The meaning of the first amendment originally was to protect POLITICAL speach, but in the years since then, it has come to be to protect any form of communication, including telemarketing, spammers, etc. However, I do agree that spamming businesses need to become more respectable, sending from false addresses and such tactless behavior. I recieve a number of newsletters, and I enjoy them, but there are a few which I never signed up for which do not come from real email adresses. There should be limits on what spammers can do, maybe a change in thier actions will result in a change in attitude toward thier practice.
I noticed a little inconsistansy in MS's words and actions as well, but with different issues, the pressures they have been placing on AOL. MS has been squabling with AOL about including the new AOL 6.0 with windows XP for quite some time, this did not shock me. However, when they started pressuring AOL to adopt MSN Messenger protocols so "our phone can talk to your phone".
Placing this with all the new opinions from folks such as this writer, I am starting to come up with my own intrepretation of what is happening.
MS is warry of impending breakup, they pray that thier lawyers can get the off on thier appeal, but they are not certain. Because of the threat of seperation, they are trying to strengthen each of the portions of thier company, by increasing market share in the OS market, server market, ISP market, and applications market. They simply do not some small off the wall contender entering the market to take the lead during the confusion of the breakup.
MS isn't trying to control everything forever, they are simply trying to increase thier market share so that thier divided companies will be in good positions after the breakup.
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but MS is really scaring me lately.
Assimilation has been threatened. Beware.
not exactly. I always understood that if I made changes to GPL'd code, it remains my choice to distribute the modified software. I can use it internally, have it running on any machine I want, but if I decide to distribute it to others, then the source code needs to be disclosed and be GPL'd.
wait a minute: at 2200 mph, an engine such as the one in your car would not be very efficient, in fact, it would probally explode or something cool when you started pumping gasoline vapor into the exhaust system because the piston was going up and down too fast for the ignition of the gasoline to occur. It would be a very effective gasoline vaporizer, maybe something like a flame thrower.
the neutrinos arrived 8 days before the light. Probally because they could pass through the ultra dense shockwave of the supernova, while the light was trapped.
for the RIAA, a monolithic music recording industry doesn't really fit into the new equation, they simply are not needed.
When will a widespread micropayment system happen? Soon, would be my guess, the online advertising model doesn't work very well, and I wouldn't mind paying say $3 a month to use slashdot. I would be very happy.
They were concerned that the explosion would ignite the atmosphere. Fermi raised this issue and they did the calculations to determine the temperature which the atmosphere would ignite and verified that thier little fission bomb was not even close to hot enough to ignite the atmosphere. There was no concern about fissioning the entire earth. They took no chances and made no gambles. Others, not the scientists involved, percieved problems which they did not understand, and that is what you have heard about.
hold the phone --- They have thier power lines running all over hell and back, couldn't they just run a small chunk of fiber optic line with it for communication and controls?
My senior year was closer, all I did was smoke weed and run around in my boxers.
are you suggesting that they don't run an operating system? They probally don't run a traditional operating system, its a special use machine, and frankly wouldn't benifit from having internet explorer (uh, I mean win2k).
Why the hell would important computers which control the power grid be accessable from the internet in any way. I realize everyone wants to look at thier porn while they are at work, but bring it on CD god damn it! Repeat after me: Mission critical systems which to not explicitly require internet access should not have internet access or be on the same network as machines with internet access. Its all about which machines can be trusted, and as far as I am concerned, any machine which is accessable from the internet or has internet access is not to be trusted.
So, is this playing full games, like quake3 or UT, over an NFS mounted file system and caching data for later use? So performance? Does it suck?