Don't worry!
There's not only www.hotmail.com but also lots of other servers, e.g.:
ad.law3.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.6 on FreeBSD ad.law4.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.6 on FreeBSD ad.law7.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.6 on FreeBSD gfx.law7.hotmail.com is running Boa/0.93.17.3 on FreeBSD law2-ad.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.6 on FreeBSD ...
In one of the last editions of the excellent magazine BYTE, on the 3rd-last page there was an article (don't remeber who wrote it - but I may look it up: I haven't trashed a single magazin) about how in 5 years Mircosoft will be no more the #1 player in Software,...
Now this event seems to came true. It was a really interesting and foreseeing article!
Oracle, which is without any doubt the "biggest" one
MS SQL, which is the only one "preferring to run on NT"
BTW:
I use Porstgres on FreeBSD since 1996 and MySQL on Linux since 1998 without any problems: easy to set up, fast and reliable...
But I also administer an online store (one of the biggest here in Italy) which uses IBM DB2 on NT4.0 since 1997: there exists no combination which gave us more headaches, and the last week was a real nightmare:
We had to reboot the whole server (not only the hanging services) about every 2 hours and did reinstall from scratch 3 times in the last 2 days... The system still is unstable - we do not know why. We are now loosing millions of lire a day due to lost sales because the server is down... One thing is sure: we will switch to Linux.
If considering the whole Tech world, not only PC-land, the picture is quite different from the one the title suggests.
Technology in fact consists not only of the PC:
cars were invented in Europe and still leading car-makers reside in Germany (known for quality) and Italy (known for design)
who invented the aeroplane, helicopter or zeppelin?
radio and TV were not invented in the US too (US TV and radio stations still don't know how to use teletext or RDS)
the computer was invented by a german (Konrad Zuse)
for 20 years the Internet was hardly known, until the Web was invented at CERN
cutting-edge cellphones come from Skandinavia (Finland and Sweden)
the CD was invented by Philips
hi-fi and electronic gadgets usually are made in Japan
... (I could go on and on!)
Well, the only thing the US does know how to do: pay us europeans well to convince us to head over the pond and bring you the expertise, you don't have. The USA is a rich country. But it's usually european know-how! From Cristoforo Colombo to Linus Torvalds: dear Americans don't foget your roots!
With something over 30.000.000 GSM subscribers, Italy is probably the country with the highest number of cellular phone users. If the proliferation of GSM phones goes on like in the last 2 years, next year Italy will have more cellular phones than inhabitants. The city of Padua already has more cellular phone subscribers than inhabitants.
Sending short messages (SMS) is also very popular in Italy: during lessons at school, in the bus or train, while sitting on the water closet... there's no limit for its use.
The US unfortunately has not a single cellular phone standard (like GSM in 90% of the world), and those used are not working outside the US/Canada. So north american users are isolated.
But GSM is not the only technology, where the USA has years to catch up with other (also less-industrialized) countries: teletext in TVs is very useful and RDS on your car-radio also, but nearly unknown in the US.
Again: The world is not US-centric! and the US is not the outrider for every technological achievment
I live in Italy, one of the first countries to have strong privacy laws - and I'm very happy with it.
The privacy laws don't prohibit having a phone list of friends or the like, so there's no concern for private persons. But the law clearly states that wehenever a company collects data about a person, the company is obliged to have the persons consensus. The person on which the data is collected has the right to know exactly which data is collected, what use the company makes of it, and the right to change it and to ask to be cancelled!
This works also well against spam: whenever I get unsolicited commercial e-mail from an italian company, I politely write back asking where they got my e-mail address from, what other data they have from me, and to immediately cancel my data from their database - otherwise I will sue them. I did it about a dozen times, and not a single time the companies complained: the sent me an excuse letter, cancelled my entry and told me where they got my e-mail address from: usually it was from Yahoo. So I contacted Yahoo Italia notifying them of the abuse many companies make of their e-mail lists. Soon after my complaint Yahoo Italia inserted a disclaimer in concordance with the law, which explicity prohibits using their data for sending spam...
Unfortunaltely when my e-mail appears in a spam-list of some US-company, I can hardly do anything to get rid of it, as the US don't protect someones privacy.
Italy also introduced digital signatures years ago, while the US is doing it only now. Welcome to the future, dear USA!
I played Lego till the age of 18 and I thank god for it.
Lego helps you very much to understand how to build and put together components, things can always be adapted, expanded and be made better in some way with intelligent composition of basic pieces and evolve to new structures, buildings, machines, robots,... I enjoyed building with lego, not playing.
I'm not Linus, but I'm sure he played Lego too. And some day in the future my children will play Lego too.
.com,.net and.org are international TLDs and anyone may register domains there (not only Networksolutions allows you to do that, but all other registrars too).
The American, or to be more exact, the USA-namesepace, is called.us (yes,.us does exist!).
On 13 January, 1997, a posting in the USA was made to an Internet newsgroup "soc.culture.thai" (3) which Demon Internet carries and stores through an unknown source. The message was traced back to a forged message which made it appear that it came from the Plaintiff in the case.
What, if we subsitute the above appear with the word clear? The whole story would get quite amusing, and the most frightening part is: it may be true!
dynamic content doesn't get cached by proxies, but images present in dynamic pages get very well cached. With location poisoning, this caching is not possible. So caching matters!
HTTP and DNS are protocols, while HTML is a language. There are standards and standards.
Abusing of the DNS protocol is like using the <B>-tag to do italics (it can be done with style-sheets), while adding a new <BLINK>-tag is in no way an abuse of standards (BLINK was not defined previously for other purposes).
Oh, you're using your mouse with your toes... now I understand the whole 'feel free to flame'. I didn't see this post marked as 'funny'. Hey, moderators, moderate this as funny!
Every Linux licence I bought (RedHat or SuSe) was installed on more than one box: from 2 up to about a dozen (I lend the CDs to my collegues). So every Linux sold is actually more than one server running Linux.
On the other hand every Windows licence sold is installed in exaclty one machine (unless pirated, and pirated installations surely make not up 50%, 80% or more of the installed base)!
So to my estimate, Linux has already surpassed Windows not in sales but in number of installed boxes.
...but wait, doesn't the tecnology aready exist? What was NextStep about? Didn't the neXT-Station write to the b/w Monitor (actually four levels of grayscale) through PostScript? So Prsentations on screen where really WYSIWYG as the same language was used to write to screen as to the printer. And we know of laserprinters having 300, 600 or 1200 dpi!
...but wait, doesn't the tecnology aready exist? What was NextStep about? Didn't the neXT-Station write to the b/w Monitor (actually four levels of grayscale) through PostScript? So Presentations on screen where really WYSIWYG as the same language was used to write to the screen as to the printer. And we know of laserprinters having 300, 600 or 1200 dpi! (the more dpi, the better the resolution, without raster-graphics becoming infinitly small)
So we are advised to turn off Javascript, JScript, Java, ActiveX, Plugins, Cookies, (put-in-what-ever-you-like) when surfing the Net.
But weren't all those extra thingies which were the reason we abandoned our outdated (put-here-some-browser-you-liked) and switched to MSIE?
So Microsoft (among others) will advice us to not use the features they added to its browser to make us switch to its browser. So why should we ever switch and use MSIE?!?
not only \, but also/, -, and most of the other punctuation and extra characters "move around" on international keyboards.
Even the letters from the alfabet are not always in the same place like the letters W, Z and Y, that's why some keyboards are called QWERTY, while others belong to the QWERTZ or the QZERTY family...
At a speed of one page per minute, it will take the rest of my life to read them all (about 57 years, considering that I can't read more than 8 hours a day: I'll also have to eat and sleep,...).
I work as the proyect leader of the "Scholar Net", a program that aims to bring computers and the net to every elementary and mid-level school in Mexico. We expect to install from 20 to 35 thousand labs per year to a total of 140,000 centers in the next five years.
Due to matters of cost, reliability and configurability, we plan to use GNU/Linux to replace the propietary server options and, now thanks to GNOME, the propietary desktop application options.
We will develop GNOME to a point where we can get a useful and friendly enough desktop for the elementary and high school student. There are some aspects of GNOME, such as uniformity, spanish translation, bug fixing and application development which we will address to achieve this.
At an average of 20 users per machine, and being all of them school children and teachers, GNU/Linux will become, at the long term, a major influence in Mexico. In the short term, GNOME will get an additional impulse from us and those who will contribute following our guidelines, and GNU/Linux will prove to be a real-world option for the end user.
For further information and details on the Scholar Net and, specially for GNOME developers, on how to contribute to GNOME for us to arrive to deployment stage, please contact Arturo Espinosa.
Arturo Espinosa Aldama Proyect Leader Academic Services Coordination National Autonomous University of Mexico
The text above may be copied in any way provided that it stays with this parragraph and unmodified.
If you research prior to posting, you will never become a "first poster" and your contribution will fall far behind and be read only by a few moderators, so your post also won't be moderated up among the first.
Linux has won broader mainstream acceptance during the past year as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Windows software, especially for running the latest Internet business tasks
So Linux is now mature for the latest business tasks!
Linux is a modern version of the Unix operating system
We agree (maybe Minix would have been more modern). BTW: who said NT is new technology? Linux is more modern than NT (I always told ya!), while NT still isn't multiuser. Will Win2000 be a multiuser OS?!?
The next generation of e-business will see customers increasingly demand open standards for interoperability across disparate platforms and IBM's growing embrace of "open systems" -- software whose features are designed by a growing body of independent programmers is part of a multi-year undertaking to make IBM computers more adaptable to the changing industry
So Open source, open standards and open systems are the way to go. We already knew that.:-)
Well, it's not really news. IBM is committed to Linux for quite some time now, and in a few weeks its flagship software product for e-commerce, Net.Commerce 4.0 will be avaliable for Linux too (I'm waiting for it!).
The station your radio tuner is set to (you don't have to actually listen to this station, you may well listen to tapes or CDs) emits the RDS-signal for traffic announcements. If your radio is set to receive traffic announcements the CD or tape will be interrupted...
In Italy it often happens that some stations send the signal quite a lot prior to the traffic news, so YOU HAVE TO listen to their ads, instead of the real traffic message. That's quite annoying, so I always set my radio to not receiving the TP (traffic programme), while other RDS services are still working: transmission of alternate frequencies (AF) or the name of the station.
But, do Americans really not know about RDS? Is Europe here more "futuristic"? I used it for at least 10 years now! But then, the Web was also invented "here".
:-) ms
the US is not the centre of the world!
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Things shouldn't evolve around US/British-made decisions.
The switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar was made at different dates in different countries. The British/US made the switch a bit late. You know, Brits are always lazy in adopting standards made in Continental Europe due to ancient rivalries between Brits and French (see inches/gallons/... instead of meter/kilogram/...).
The official switch from Julian to Gregorian was made in most industrialized countries (at that time) in October 1582, not in September 1752.
Sorry, You dumb English-people, but you should switch ASAP to the metric system too, or you'll be burned over and over again.
:-) ms
UNIX cal has a big bug!!!!
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When I read your post, I thought "september? but wasn't the reform in October?", so I checked it on my Linux-box too:
> cal 9 1752 September 1752 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Then I looked at the man-page:
The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the 3rd of September....
Then I checked some bibliography:
Ten days were omitted from the calendar, and it was decreed that the day following (Thursday) October 4, 1582 (which is October 5, 1582, in the old calendar) would thenceforth be known as (Friday) October 15, 1582
So who is right now? Surely not our beloved cal.
:-( ms
UNIX cal has a big bug!!!!
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When I read your post, I thought "september? but wasn't the reform in October?", so I checked it on my Linux-box too: > cal 9 1752 September 1752 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1nbsp;2 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Then I looked at the man-page: The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the 3rd of September.... Then I checked some bibliography: Ten days were omitted from the calendar, and it was decreed that the day following (Thursday) October 4, 1582 (which is October 5, 1582, in the old calendar) would thenceforth be known as (Friday) October 15, 1582 So who is right now? Surely not our beloved cal.
Slashdot Mirror
ad.law3.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.6 on FreeBSD
...
ad.law4.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.6 on FreeBSD
ad.law7.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.6 on FreeBSD
gfx.law7.hotmail.com is running Boa/0.93.17.3 on FreeBSD
law2-ad.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.6 on FreeBSD
ms
Now this event seems to came true. It was a really interesting and foreseeing article!
ms
- Oracle, which is without any doubt the "biggest" one
- MS SQL, which is the only one "preferring to run on NT"
BTW:I use Porstgres on FreeBSD since 1996 and MySQL on Linux since 1998 without any problems: easy to set up, fast and reliable...
But I also administer an online store (one of the biggest here in Italy) which uses IBM DB2 on NT4.0 since 1997: there exists no combination which gave us more headaches, and the last week was a real nightmare: We had to reboot the whole server (not only the hanging services) about every 2 hours and did reinstall from scratch 3 times in the last 2 days... The system still is unstable - we do not know why. We are now loosing millions of lire a day due to lost sales because the server is down... One thing is sure: we will switch to Linux.
ms
Are games so importnat "news" for us "nerds".
I think I'm the only one not playing games, but actually using computers for work...
ms
Technology in fact consists not only of the PC:
- cars were invented in Europe and still leading car-makers reside in Germany (known for quality) and Italy (known for design)
- who invented the aeroplane, helicopter or zeppelin?
- radio and TV were not invented in the US too (US TV and radio stations still don't know how to use teletext or RDS)
- the computer was invented by a german (Konrad Zuse)
- for 20 years the Internet was hardly known, until the Web was invented at CERN
- cutting-edge cellphones come from Skandinavia (Finland and Sweden)
- the CD was invented by Philips
- hi-fi and electronic gadgets usually are made in Japan
- ... (I could go on and on!)
Well, the only thing the US does know how to do: pay us europeans well to convince us to head over the pond and bring you the expertise, you don't have. The USA is a rich country. But it's usually european know-how! From Cristoforo Colombo to Linus Torvalds: dear Americans don't foget your roots!ms
Sending short messages (SMS) is also very popular in Italy: during lessons at school, in the bus or train, while sitting on the water closet... there's no limit for its use.
The US unfortunately has not a single cellular phone standard (like GSM in 90% of the world), and those used are not working outside the US/Canada. So north american users are isolated.
But GSM is not the only technology, where the USA has years to catch up with other (also less-industrialized) countries: teletext in TVs is very useful and RDS on your car-radio also, but nearly unknown in the US.
Again: The world is not US-centric! and the US is not the outrider for every technological achievment
ms
The privacy laws don't prohibit having a phone list of friends or the like, so there's no concern for private persons. But the law clearly states that wehenever a company collects data about a person, the company is obliged to have the persons consensus. The person on which the data is collected has the right to know exactly which data is collected, what use the company makes of it, and the right to change it and to ask to be cancelled!
This works also well against spam: whenever I get unsolicited commercial e-mail from an italian company, I politely write back asking where they got my e-mail address from, what other data they have from me, and to immediately cancel my data from their database - otherwise I will sue them. I did it about a dozen times, and not a single time the companies complained: the sent me an excuse letter, cancelled my entry and told me where they got my e-mail address from: usually it was from Yahoo. So I contacted Yahoo Italia notifying them of the abuse many companies make of their e-mail lists. Soon after my complaint Yahoo Italia inserted a disclaimer in concordance with the law, which explicity prohibits using their data for sending spam...
Unfortunaltely when my e-mail appears in a spam-list of some US-company, I can hardly do anything to get rid of it, as the US don't protect someones privacy.
Italy also introduced digital signatures years ago, while the US is doing it only now.
Welcome to the future, dear USA!
ms
Lego helps you very much to understand how to build and put together components, things can always be adapted, expanded and be made better in some way with intelligent composition of basic pieces and evolve to new structures, buildings, machines, robots, ...
I enjoyed building with lego, not playing.
I'm not Linus, but I'm sure he played Lego too. And some day in the future my children will play Lego too.
ms
The American, or to be more exact, the USA-namesepace, is called .us (yes, .us does exist!).
Saluti dall'Italia!
Markus
About 10 years ago I regularly read some newsgroups like soc.culture.german where Laurence Godfrey was hated to death for his anti-german postings.
No, I will not post anonymously - why should I fear to express my opinions freely?!?
Is this the world we created?
ms
- dynamic content doesn't get cached by proxies, but images present in dynamic pages get very well cached. With location poisoning, this caching is not possible. So caching matters!
- HTTP and DNS are protocols, while HTML is a language. There are standards and standards.
- Abusing of the DNS protocol is like using the <B>-tag to do italics (it can be done with style-sheets), while adding a new <BLINK>-tag is in no way an abuse of standards (BLINK was not defined previously for other purposes).
Oh, you're using your mouse with your toes... now I understand the whole 'feel free to flame'. I didn't see this post marked as 'funny'. Hey, moderators, moderate this as funny!On the other hand every Windows licence sold is installed in exaclty one machine (unless pirated, and pirated installations surely make not up 50%, 80% or more of the installed base)!
So to my estimate, Linux has already surpassed Windows not in sales but in number of installed boxes.
ms
What was NextStep about? Didn't the neXT-Station write to the b/w Monitor (actually four levels of grayscale) through PostScript? So Prsentations on screen where really WYSIWYG as the same language was used to write to screen as to the printer. And we know of laserprinters having 300, 600 or 1200 dpi!
The tecnology exixts! Don't reinvent the wheel.
ms
What was NextStep about? Didn't the neXT-Station write to the b/w Monitor (actually four levels of grayscale) through PostScript? So Presentations on screen where really WYSIWYG as the same language was used to write to the screen as to the printer. And we know of laserprinters having 300, 600 or 1200 dpi! (the more dpi, the better the resolution, without raster-graphics becoming infinitly small)
The tecnology exixts! Don't reinvent the wheel.
ms
But weren't all those extra thingies which were the reason we abandoned our outdated (put-here-some-browser-you-liked) and switched to MSIE?
So Microsoft (among others) will advice us to not use the features they added to its browser to make us switch to its browser. So why should we ever switch and use MSIE?!?
ms
Even the letters from the alfabet are not always in the same place like the letters W, Z and Y, that's why some keyboards are called QWERTY, while others belong to the QWERTZ or the QZERTY family...
ms
At a speed of one page per minute, it will take the rest of my life to read them all (about 57 years, considering that I can't read more than 8 hours a day: I'll also have to eat and sleep, ...).
ms
- Mexican Schools Embrace Linux by Leander Kahney (WIRED)
- Scholar Net
Below is Arturo Espinosa Aldama's complete post. Hope this helpsms
If you research prior to posting, you will never become a "first poster" and your contribution will fall far behind and be read only by a few moderators, so your post also won't be moderated up among the first.
ms
Well, it's not really news. IBM is committed to Linux for quite some time now, and in a few weeks its flagship software product for e-commerce, Net.Commerce 4.0 will be avaliable for Linux too (I'm waiting for it!).
ms
In Italy it often happens that some stations send the signal quite a lot prior to the traffic news, so YOU HAVE TO listen to their ads, instead of the real traffic message. That's quite annoying, so I always set my radio to not receiving the TP (traffic programme), while other RDS services are still working: transmission of alternate frequencies (AF) or the name of the station.
But, do Americans really not know about RDS? Is Europe here more "futuristic"? I used it for at least 10 years now! But then, the Web was also invented "here".
ms
The switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar was made at different dates in different countries. The British/US made the switch a bit late. You know, Brits are always lazy in adopting standards made in Continental Europe due to ancient rivalries between Brits and French (see inches/gallons/... instead of meter/kilogram/...).
The official switch from Julian to Gregorian was made in most industrialized countries (at that time) in October 1582, not in September 1752.
Sorry, You dumb English-people, but you should switch ASAP to the metric system too, or you'll be burned over and over again.
ms
> cal 9 1752
September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Then I looked at the man-page:
The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the 3rd of September....
Then I checked some bibliography:
Ten days were omitted from the calendar, and it was decreed that the day following (Thursday) October 4, 1582 (which is October 5, 1582, in the old calendar) would thenceforth be known as (Friday) October 15, 1582
So who is right now? Surely not our beloved cal.
ms
> cal 9 1752
September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1nbsp;2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Then I looked at the man-page:
The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the 3rd of September....
Then I checked some bibliography:
Ten days were omitted from the calendar, and it was decreed that the day following (Thursday) October 4, 1582 (which is October 5, 1582, in the old calendar) would thenceforth be known as (Friday) October 15, 1582
So who is right now? Surely not our beloved cal.
ms