Several months ago the Polish tresury dept made MS the official OS for doing business with the government. You must us Windows and an un named piece of software to do business with them. I have a friend who works for an exporter in Poland. He is really upset. He is also the main distributor for StarOffice in Poland. Now he sees that he will be shutdown if he does not buy into the MS scam. Look for the same thing to happen here.
Apple Poland has threatened suit if MS and the Polish governement does not make access available for Macs and other OS's.
I guess there was more to the deal than just making MS the official OS.
I have been using Linuxppc and MkLinux for several years.
I do agree with you about the forums and newsgroups for Linuxppc compared to X86. The Mac crowd has always been a tightknit world. The PC is a computer, the Mac is a community. We have had to stick together. Many of us came to Linux when it appeared that MS was going to crush Apple. We refused to surrender to them. We also knew that if Apple survived that knowing the Nix's would be helpful. You could say that they let see a hint of the future of the MacOS.
I am running YDL 1.2.1 with the newest Helix-Gnome, on a beige G3/266. It is fine with me.
He doesn't want to believe he threw his money away on garbage.
MS has no incentive in the marketplace to improve their software. Maybe bringing it home to them, by showing them how bad their security is, will force them to make a better product. I doubt it though.
I worked in a bike shop for a few years. One man kept bringing in his bike to repair flats. He had about ten patches on his tires. It would have been cheaper to buy a heavy-duty inner tube and thorn scrapers, than to have it repaired over and over again, but he kept that leaky old inner tube.
I think Sony is going after more than the game business. They are up to something that has greatly disturbed MS to the point of trying to actually create something. That PS2 will make a fine internet device.
I keep waiting for Sony to do something really amazing,they have the potential.
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When you see you mailcarrier note the bundle of mail in his hand. It is sorted by QNX. QNX powers whe letter sorting machines at the US Postal Service. (@ 40k letters per hour) I deal with it everyday, and QNX never gives us a bit of trouble. If there is a problem with the sorted mail, it is not from the program, but from a worn belt, bad zip, or a OCR out of adjustment. I have seen the geeks who repair our computers go from Windows zombies into QNX fans. They are even complaining that open source solution were not considered by the Postal service.
BTW, they Love WebObjects. It powers the Postal Services intranet.
Wait till they start holding data hostage. so you don't want to pay the new licensing fee? Here's how much it will cost to get your companies data back.
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I used MkLinux for several years. I was impressed with the stability. On a 7100/80, speed was not an issue. Changing Kernels was a no brainer. Talk about a painless upgrade.
How long has it been since you used an OS with Mach?
I am willing to wait for a good solid OS. I can't wait for the Nix'ers to start rolling out the hacks. I won't be totally happy until I can run Gnome-Helix and GIMP, on OSX.
How would you like to have your business's trade secrets on MS's servers?
I would read the license very carefully. You might be signing over your intellectual property to MS by using.Net.Net is a suckers game. Don't play it.
Knowing how Jobs is, Amazon will probably be using WebObjects for their site, and showing streaming QuickTime Trailers of their video offerings.
I think some MS fans will be PO'ed if the Xbox uses firewire.
You can't please everyone.
It is total war, or total peace. Too bad we only see the total war.
Africa is the mother land of us all, and she is wise, tender, brutal and beautiful. The same goes for her inhabitants.
You come upon a barefooted child that can speak six languages,shoot pool like a champ, then excel at math, you lose some preconceptions of the people of Africa.She was nine years old. Her English was better than mine, and she could do math that was beyond my abilities(I saw her homework). At bumper pool, she couldn't be beat. The Italian men would sit around and place bets on her next rivals' chances. She would just smile and take their money.
She was the only Ethiopian allowed in the GS Asmara, other than workers and athletes.
I remember when Apple wanted to do away with that little smiling Mac at boot. We raised holy hell. that is our ls.
I still love HyperCard, and mourn the fact that it was abandoned.
We have our history, and if the Mac user is introduced to the history of the UNIX underpinnings of their OSX, they will understand and appreciate. Artists are, at their core romantics. I think you will find more in common between the Mac user and Unix user than the bean counter Wintel user.
Watch a graphics pro work his Mac. You will be impressed. It is like a dance. The speed and grace of the graphics artist, is what we need in the Nix world.
Most businessmen use just three applications, wordprocessor, spreadsheets, and solitaire.
A few still play minesweaper, but we don't talk about them. They don't care about the machine, but just the money they are making. the UNIX and Mac users care about their machines, and become emotionally attached. That is one reason Jobs made sure he sold beautiful machines because he understands the role of beauty and grace.
the UNIX user sees the beauty in the function of the machine, the characters flashing by when a command is typed, The Mac user is transfixed by the soft curves, the clarity of the graphics, and inviting UI.
The classic is a nod to the graphics pro. they complained that the bright blue was distracting, so grey is the color of the Pro Macs. I will be buying one as soon as the first rush of bugs are worked out. I haven't heard of anything serious yet, but sooner or later something will come up.
I will run OSX and Linux. Neither one is Windows, so they are OK with me.
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Thanks for the great idea for a parody.
Several months ago the Polish tresury dept made MS the official OS for doing business with the government. You must us Windows and an un named piece of software to do business with them. I have a friend who works for an exporter in Poland. He is really upset. He is also the main distributor for StarOffice in Poland. Now he sees that he will be shutdown if he does not buy into the MS scam. Look for the same thing to happen here.
Apple Poland has threatened suit if MS and the Polish governement does not make access available for Macs and other OS's.
I guess there was more to the deal than just making MS the official OS.
I have been using Linuxppc and MkLinux for several years.
I do agree with you about the forums and newsgroups for Linuxppc compared to X86. The Mac crowd has always been a tightknit world. The PC is a computer, the Mac is a community. We have had to stick together. Many of us came to Linux when it appeared that MS was going to crush Apple. We refused to surrender to them. We also knew that if Apple survived that knowing the Nix's would be helpful. You could say that they let see a hint of the future of the MacOS.
I am running YDL 1.2.1 with the newest Helix-Gnome, on a beige G3/266. It is fine with me.
He doesn't want to believe he threw his money away on garbage.
MS has no incentive in the marketplace to improve their software. Maybe bringing it home to them, by showing them how bad their security is, will force them to make a better product. I doubt it though.
I worked in a bike shop for a few years. One man kept bringing in his bike to repair flats. He had about ten patches on his tires. It would have been cheaper to buy a heavy-duty inner tube and thorn scrapers, than to have it repaired over and over again, but he kept that leaky old inner tube.
I have an abacus, it is inexpensive, portable, needs no batteries, and it reboots quickly.
And Yellowdog linux runs on it so does LinuxPPC. Good USB support.
I think Sony is going after more than the game business. They are up to something that has greatly disturbed MS to the point of trying to actually create something. That PS2 will make a fine internet device. I keep waiting for Sony to do something really amazing,they have the potential.
When you see you mailcarrier note the bundle of mail in his hand. It is sorted by QNX. QNX powers whe letter sorting machines at the US Postal Service. (@ 40k letters per hour) I deal with it everyday, and QNX never gives us a bit of trouble. If there is a problem with the sorted mail, it is not from the program, but from a worn belt, bad zip, or a OCR out of adjustment. I have seen the geeks who repair our computers go from Windows zombies into QNX fans. They are even complaining that open source solution were not considered by the Postal service.
BTW, they Love WebObjects. It powers the Postal Services intranet.
It won't keep me from getting an iBook and installing YellowDog on one partition, then keeping the other ready and waiting for OSX.
Sony has some nice looking stuff, but for the money their asking, I want something I can use. It's too fuckin small for my paws.
Wait till they start holding data hostage. so you don't want to pay the new licensing fee? Here's how much it will cost to get your companies data back. ---
I used MkLinux for several years. I was impressed with the stability. On a 7100/80, speed was not an issue. Changing Kernels was a no brainer. Talk about a painless upgrade.
How long has it been since you used an OS with Mach?
I am willing to wait for a good solid OS. I can't wait for the Nix'ers to start rolling out the hacks. I won't be totally happy until I can run Gnome-Helix and GIMP, on OSX.
How would you like to have your business's trade secrets on MS's servers? I would read the license very carefully. You might be signing over your intellectual property to MS by using .Net .Net is a suckers game. Don't play it.
Knowing how Jobs is, Amazon will probably be using WebObjects for their site, and showing streaming QuickTime Trailers of their video offerings. I think some MS fans will be PO'ed if the Xbox uses firewire. You can't please everyone.
Cut to the chase it, is more of the fall out from being thrashed by Janet Reno and Judge Jackson.
Whine, we didn't get our way, whine, they want us to play by the rule, whine, this will make it harder for me to become a trillionaire.
If you are stupid enuough to us Windows, you are stupid enough to pay $1,000 for it.
If they were stupid enough to use Micorosft products for secure transactions, they deserve to be cracked.
After all the thousands of breeches in MS security, it seems that the business community would get a clue.
the problem isn't just Fiserv, it is the terrible software they chose to runGarbage in Garbage out
Best send them links to openBSD.
If you have never lived there you wouldn't know.
It is total war, or total peace. Too bad we only see the total war.
Africa is the mother land of us all, and she is wise, tender, brutal and beautiful. The same goes for her inhabitants.
You come upon a barefooted child that can speak six languages,shoot pool like a champ, then excel at math, you lose some preconceptions of the people of Africa.She was nine years old. Her English was better than mine, and she could do math that was beyond my abilities(I saw her homework). At bumper pool, she couldn't be beat. The Italian men would sit around and place bets on her next rivals' chances. She would just smile and take their money.
She was the only Ethiopian allowed in the GS Asmara, other than workers and athletes.
Lucent and some other company which I cannot remember is wiring Africa.They are putting an optical fiber network offshore, around the continent.
There is a market, and there is more wealth there than you think. They know how to thrive even with the constant sorrow around them.
I remember when Apple wanted to do away with that little smiling Mac at boot. We raised holy hell. that is our ls.
I still love HyperCard, and mourn the fact that it was abandoned.
We have our history, and if the Mac user is introduced to the history of the UNIX underpinnings of their OSX, they will understand and appreciate. Artists are, at their core romantics. I think you will find more in common between the Mac user and Unix user than the bean counter Wintel user.
Watch a graphics pro work his Mac. You will be impressed. It is like a dance. The speed and grace of the graphics artist, is what we need in the Nix world.
Most businessmen use just three applications, wordprocessor, spreadsheets, and solitaire.
A few still play minesweaper, but we don't talk about them. They don't care about the machine, but just the money they are making. the UNIX and Mac users care about their machines, and become emotionally attached. That is one reason Jobs made sure he sold beautiful machines because he understands the role of beauty and grace.
the UNIX user sees the beauty in the function of the machine, the characters flashing by when a command is typed, The Mac user is transfixed by the soft curves, the clarity of the graphics, and inviting UI.
Repeat after me, dual boot. If you want X, you can always boot into linux.
We all know that gcc and other cool CLI tools are ready and waiting for us when we get our OSX box. For many, that is the reason for Linux.
Yaboot, for sure!
Al
Stagger down to your local CrampUSA and buy a $29.95 Logitech optical mouse, and you will be in hog heaven.
Or is it $39.95. Whatever.
You must be a Windows user, you are making it harder than it needs to be.
good eyesight. I wear glasses, infact I wear trifocals, yep pretty bad. Can I use one of these products?
It's the logo. I use YellowDog Linux because I am a mailman who also likes dogs. Waiting for YDL2.
The classic is a nod to the graphics pro. they complained that the bright blue was distracting, so grey is the color of the Pro Macs. I will be buying one as soon as the first rush of bugs are worked out. I haven't heard of anything serious yet, but sooner or later something will come up. I will run OSX and Linux. Neither one is Windows, so they are OK with me.