It would make a great deal of sense for AOL/Time-Warner to acquire an operating system for leverage against Microsoft
Just a reminder - one that seems to be needed often - RedHat is not an operating system, it is a distribution of an operating system. One of the beauties of open source is that AOL can't 'buy' Linux and take it over. It is specifically forbidden by the GPL.
They can buy and change a company and a distro, but they can only make it better. Imagine this - AOL buys RedHat, makes it more user friendly than ever and drives Linux to the masses. That is the good scenario. Worst scenario is the AOL generates interest in Linux, but drives RedHat into the ground. Linux still survives. Only bad for the hardcore RedHat fans, who switch to their next choice and move on. What is there to lose?
Just for everyone's information: If you got this CD from Charter, you don't have to run the installer. Just change your IP address to dynamic, or refresh your IP address and you should be fine. That's all I had to do.
That way you don't have to reset your home page back to slashdot.org.
I did the opposite. My local AT&T cable office was bought out by Charter a few months ago. Today when my internet connection went down while I was using it. I just changed off of my static @home IP to dynamic and let it choose a Charter IP. Looks like Charter was ready to switch as soon as it happened. Now I just have to dial into my network and change all of my IPChains lists.;)
Looking at the article, am I to understand that they are trying to make a subscription alternative to GPS? Maybe I am just a trusting American, but does it really make sense to pay a monthly subscription fee 'just in case' America decides to turn off the GPS system?
He played for Junior Achievement. A worthy cause, none the less.
For all the STTNG fans, they did us proud. Smarter by far than all of the other celebrity casts. The only real embarrasment was from the old series (Shatner)
Tiger Direct doesn't have them anymore. Most recent source I have seen is http://www.rcs.0catch.com/ for $99.
Important: I have never bought anything from this company and don't know anything about them other than they have a link from audreyhacking.com's message boards. Caveat emptor.
Typical Macintosh error -
"I/O (Type -36) Error"
Which means "Cannot read file", but you have to do a web search, or tech support call to find that out.
Seriously, I once booted a Macintosh and the only thing that came on the screen was a little "Sad Macintosh." Apparently means that your system folder is corrupt. How's that for error handling?
Well, that would actually be better than M$ tech support. I was once billed $200 for taking 4 hours of my time to show them a new bug in NT Terminal Server. No refunds there.
It wouldn't be hard for the bank to get those businesses to share that information. Think about it this way:
You give your $20 bill to the clerk at Subway, the clerk scans it in a machine that checks with the bank to make sure it is legitimate, effectively reporting to the bank that you have just spent that money on lunch. Taking that concept a little bit further, the clerk could then scan the change he is giving you. This would tell the bank that the money was being transferred legitimately (not stolen), so that the next place you spend it, the money will still be good. Completely foils potential thieves, right? But also tells the bank exactly how much you spent where, and exactly how much cash money you are carrying at any given time.
Actually the site wasn't down all of that time... I think it was just being jammed by all of the people looking at the new Edge. I was able to get to it yesterday (after they posted the Edge info). It was just really, really slow.
Just so everyone will know, the whole reason they chose to release the Edge yesterday is because I finally bought a Visor last week. Most companies seem to be watching for me to register their first generation product so that they can immediately release their next generation.
Most ISP's have a business model that assumes certain ratios. For example, no ISP would have one dial-up modem (or port) for every dial-up user they service. Modems and lines are expensive, and ISP's assume that dial-up users won't be online 24 hours a day. In fact, many have SA's that prohibit staying online continuously for that long.
By the same token, upstream bandwidth is usually just a fraction of the bandwidth they currently have sold to customers. This is because even dedicated high-bandwidth customers don't use all of their bandwidth all of the time. For example, our T1 customers usually only average 200kbps each at any given point in the day. That means we only have to have 1 T1 worth of upstream bandwidth for every 6 downstream T1's sold, and can still provide quality service. If every T1 or DSL customer used all of their bandwidth all of the time, most provider's upstream bandwidth would become congested, and they would have to buy more.
Generally, bandwidth for an ISP costs more than for downstream users for just this reason. If ISP's have to buy bandwidth at a closer ratio to what they are selling, their price must go up to stay profitable. This is especially true for the smaller ISP's, since they have less margin for error. Just another reason that Mom and Pop ISP's will go away.
THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG, ONLY DIFFERENT PLACES TO STAND -- Death Terry Pratchett's 'Reaper Man'
"It's politics, and there is no right or wrong... but you are wrong!" -- My girlfriend debating a point.
I'll assume you are talking about remotely controlling the computer so that the user can see what you are doing and interact with you (since otherwise telnet or better SSH would be the obvious answer). For remote X control, though, why not try out VNC? Basically, a free PCAnywhere type of client/server for Linx to PC, PC to Linux, Linux to Linux, etc.
So wouldn't that bring the TCO of Linux down?
Might be a good idea... except that @home doesn't set up news as a standard part of their installation (at least in my case). And their ts doesn't seem to know if there even are any. Good luck even getting to their customers that way.
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Just a reminder - one that seems to be needed often - RedHat is not an operating system, it is a distribution of an operating system. One of the beauties of open source is that AOL can't 'buy' Linux and take it over. It is specifically forbidden by the GPL.
They can buy and change a company and a distro, but they can only make it better. Imagine this - AOL buys RedHat, makes it more user friendly than ever and drives Linux to the masses. That is the good scenario. Worst scenario is the AOL generates interest in Linux, but drives RedHat into the ground. Linux still survives. Only bad for the hardcore RedHat fans, who switch to their next choice and move on. What is there to lose?
That way you don't have to reset your home page back to slashdot.org.
First good thing that Charter has done for me.
Looking at the article, am I to understand that they are trying to make a subscription alternative to GPS? Maybe I am just a trusting American, but does it really make sense to pay a monthly subscription fee 'just in case' America decides to turn off the GPS system?
Damn, missed being the first to answer this. That's what I get for spending all that time looking up how to spell 'achievement'
He played for Junior Achievement. A worthy cause, none the less. For all the STTNG fans, they did us proud. Smarter by far than all of the other celebrity casts. The only real embarrasment was from the old series (Shatner)
Looks like they didn't even pay for the upgrade in bandwidth. We have already slashdotted out their bandwidth (20MB limit) for today.
Important: I have never bought anything from this company and don't know anything about them other than they have a link from audreyhacking.com's message boards. Caveat emptor.
Seriously, I once booted a Macintosh and the only thing that came on the screen was a little "Sad Macintosh." Apparently means that your system folder is corrupt. How's that for error handling?
Want to see more? Try this Mac troubleshooting guide. [yale.edu]
Well, that would actually be better than M$ tech support. I was once billed $200 for taking 4 hours of my time to show them a new bug in NT Terminal Server. No refunds there.
It wouldn't be hard for the bank to get those businesses to share that information. Think about it this way:
You give your $20 bill to the clerk at Subway, the clerk scans it in a machine that checks with the bank to make sure it is legitimate, effectively reporting to the bank that you have just spent that money on lunch. Taking that concept a little bit further, the clerk could then scan the change he is giving you. This would tell the bank that the money was being transferred legitimately (not stolen), so that the next place you spend it, the money will still be good. Completely foils potential thieves, right? But also tells the bank exactly how much you spent where, and exactly how much cash money you are carrying at any given time.
Actually the site wasn't down all of that time... I think it was just being jammed by all of the people looking at the new Edge. I was able to get to it yesterday (after they posted the Edge info). It was just really, really slow.
Just so everyone will know, the whole reason they chose to release the Edge yesterday is because I finally bought a Visor last week. Most companies seem to be watching for me to register their first generation product so that they can immediately release their next generation.
By the same token, upstream bandwidth is usually just a fraction of the bandwidth they currently have sold to customers. This is because even dedicated high-bandwidth customers don't use all of their bandwidth all of the time. For example, our T1 customers usually only average 200kbps each at any given point in the day. That means we only have to have 1 T1 worth of upstream bandwidth for every 6 downstream T1's sold, and can still provide quality service. If every T1 or DSL customer used all of their bandwidth all of the time, most provider's upstream bandwidth would become congested, and they would have to buy more.
Generally, bandwidth for an ISP costs more than for downstream users for just this reason. If ISP's have to buy bandwidth at a closer ratio to what they are selling, their price must go up to stay profitable. This is especially true for the smaller ISP's, since they have less margin for error. Just another reason that Mom and Pop ISP's will go away.
THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG, ONLY DIFFERENT PLACES TO STAND -- Death Terry Pratchett's 'Reaper Man'
"It's politics, and there is no right or wrong... but you are wrong!" -- My girlfriend debating a point.
I'll assume you are talking about remotely controlling the computer so that the user can see what you are doing and interact with you (since otherwise telnet or better SSH would be the obvious answer). For remote X control, though, why not try out VNC? Basically, a free PCAnywhere type of client/server for Linx to PC, PC to Linux, Linux to Linux, etc. So wouldn't that bring the TCO of Linux down?
Might be a good idea... except that @home doesn't set up news as a standard part of their installation (at least in my case). And their ts doesn't seem to know if there even are any. Good luck even getting to their customers that way.