As to DR-DOS and the bogus Microsoft error messages, here's the basic story. After DR-DOS was good enough to compete with MS-DOS, Microsoft began making their products try detecting DR-DOS. If they detected it, the program would print a random error message and return you to a DOS prompt. The most notable program to do this was Windows 3.1.
The DR-DOS error message was NOT in Windows 3.1. It ONLY showed up in ONE beta version of Windows 3.1. The code was removed from the final release.
I'm surprised the article did not mention the Winamp 3 disaster. Winamp 3 was a complete rewrite. It sucked so bad many people, including me, stuck with Winamp 2. Now Nullsoft has released Winamp 5, combining the best features of 2 and 3. Don't forget: 2 + 3 = 5;-)
The most ominous proposal for repressing pro-drug reform speech comes (not surprisingly) from the United Nations. The UN's International Narcotics Control Board has issued a report implicitly calling on member states to criminalize opposition to the war on drugs. Citing the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, the INCB asserts that all governments are obligated to enact laws that prohibit "inciting" or "inducing" people to use illegal drugs and to punish such violations as criminal offenses.
If such a vague and chilling restriction on freedom of expression were not odious enough, the UN board contends that any portrayal that shows illicit drug use "in a favourable light" constitutes incitement and therefore should be banned as well. Since the report also repeatedly denounces medical marijuana initiatives as well as decriminalization or legalization proposals, even the most sedate advocacy of changing prohibitionist drug laws might run afoul of the censorship regime being pushed by the United Nations.
It is not reassuring that the U.S. government has pledged to cooperate with the UN group's global anti-drug efforts. Although Washington has not explicitly endorsed the censorship recommendations, neither has it stated that the United States rejects such proposals -- even though it certainly could have added that caveat. Indeed, one official pledged "absolute cooperation" with the UN's drug control programs.
I think Windows "XP" is a pun on Chi-Rho and "Cairo". Cairo was the codename for Microsoft's "Information at your fingertips" concept, including a new Object File System. It was supposed to be Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000), but wasn't ready in time. Some of the Cairo features were supposedly shipped in XP, but more are expected in Longhorn.
Sometimes I think some Linux desktop (GNOME or KDE) should stop reinventing the HIG wheel and just implement the time-tested Mac OS 9 GUI. Once they have something nice, then they can start "improving" it.. incrementally please!
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Our site gets a million hits a day on a completely db-driven website. Both the Apache webserver and the two replicated MySQL servers on the backend are all running FreeBSD 5, and have been for months now.
If you are using a gigabit ethernet, why are you still using Apache? Can Apache keep up with your gigabit pipe?
This is proof once again that Apple is the only innovator in the industry. The PeeCee companies are just hollow shells, slapping their brands on cheap OEM boxes.
they seem to focus on india's side going up, and almost never on the us's going down.
Good point. I think this is a fact of life. The world economy will "level out" the standard of living across the globe, up and down. I live a cushy life in the USA, mostly due to good luck. I think it would be immoral for me to prevent other people (in India or wherever) from improving their standard of living. I think this leveling out will happen regardless of artificial tarifs or trade embargoes. It's just a matter of when. Let the interconnected global economy float everyone's boat.
Don't forget that, because of increase demand, Indian programmers have been asking for more money. There have been a number of Slashdot articles about jobs that would have been outsourced to India are now being outsourced to Romania and Vietnam because they are now cheaper. This is good news because it means Indians are making more money and their standard of living is improving.
but aren't Indians benefiting from new jobs? If they are willing to work for less money than me, why should they be denied the job opportunity simply because they were not born in the USA?
1. Carp about it on a geek forum 2. Ignore it - after all no one really cares how much money you spend on chewing gum from chewinggum.com 3. Find out how your congressperson voted on this issue, and call their office, then write a letter to them about it. 4. PROFIT!!!
The danger of cigarettes is not the nicotine. It's the smoke. Smoking nicotine-less cigarettes could still give you cancer. Chewing nicotine gum probably won't.
Reason Magazine has a pretty interesting article ("Snuff Treatment: Lying in the name of public health") about the US gub'mint lying to us about the dangers of chewing tabacco. Even though it is 90% less hazardous than cigarette smoking, numerous US health agencies repeatedly claim chewing tabacco is "just as dangerous" as smoking cigarettes.
Brightmail sucks. My employer uses Brightmail to keep company email inboxes clean from spam. It does not work. Everyday I still receive about 10 "Microsoft admin network patches" virus emails, Japanese spam, and pr0n spam with OBVIOUS keywords like "15 inch horse cock", "teen girls", and "3 inch anus". Most of this spam has obviously forged To: and From: headers, too.
If the KDE developers think KDE is so much better for business users, then why don't THEY create a KDE/Linux distro? Shucks, they could even wait for Bruce to release UserLinux, take his code, and replace GNOME with KDE. Just like that guy creating "White Box" Linux based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Admittedly, Dean wants to "raise" taxes. He wants to repeal Bush's tax cuts to pay for Bush's huge budget deficit. Tax cuts without spending cuts (ala Bush) are actually tax increases.. you just have to pay later with interest.
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his flash-frozen brain becomes a superconductor and he regains consciousness after Plutonian sunset.
but was his body still frozen? If he removed his helmet outside, how could he breath when frozen?
As to DR-DOS and the bogus Microsoft error messages, here's the basic story. After DR-DOS was good enough to compete with MS-DOS, Microsoft began making their products try detecting DR-DOS. If they detected it, the program would print a random error message and return you to a DOS prompt. The most notable program to do this was Windows 3.1.
The DR-DOS error message was NOT in Windows 3.1. It ONLY showed up in ONE beta version of Windows 3.1. The code was removed from the final release.
I'm surprised the article did not mention the Winamp 3 disaster. Winamp 3 was a complete rewrite. It sucked so bad many people, including me, stuck with Winamp 2. Now Nullsoft has released Winamp 5, combining the best features of 2 and 3. Don't forget: 2 + 3 = 5
If the United Nations has its way, you might not be able to speak out against the War on Drugs in ANY nation:
Drug Warriors Try to Censor their Opponents:
The most ominous proposal for repressing pro-drug reform speech comes (not surprisingly) from the United Nations. The UN's International Narcotics Control Board has issued a report implicitly calling on member states to criminalize opposition to the war on drugs. Citing the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, the INCB asserts that all governments are obligated to enact laws that prohibit "inciting" or "inducing" people to use illegal drugs and to punish such violations as criminal offenses.
If such a vague and chilling restriction on freedom of expression were not odious enough, the UN board contends that any portrayal that shows illicit drug use "in a favourable light" constitutes incitement and therefore should be banned as well. Since the report also repeatedly denounces medical marijuana initiatives as well as decriminalization or legalization proposals, even the most sedate advocacy of changing prohibitionist drug laws might run afoul of the censorship regime being pushed by the United Nations.
It is not reassuring that the U.S. government has pledged to cooperate with the UN group's global anti-drug efforts. Although Washington has not explicitly endorsed the censorship recommendations, neither has it stated that the United States rejects such proposals -- even though it certainly could have added that caveat. Indeed, one official pledged "absolute cooperation" with the UN's drug control programs.
hasn't it been Year of Desktop Linux 1995 or something??
XP are the greek letters Chi Rho
I think Windows "XP" is a pun on Chi-Rho and "Cairo". Cairo was the codename for Microsoft's "Information at your fingertips" concept, including a new Object File System. It was supposed to be Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000), but wasn't ready in time. Some of the Cairo features were supposedly shipped in XP, but more are expected in Longhorn.
Sometimes I think some Linux desktop (GNOME or KDE) should stop reinventing the HIG wheel and just implement the time-tested Mac OS 9 GUI. Once they have something nice, then they can start "improving" it.. incrementally please!
Our site gets a million hits a day on a completely db-driven website. Both the Apache webserver and the two replicated MySQL servers on the backend are all running FreeBSD 5, and have been for months now.
If you are using a gigabit ethernet, why are you still using Apache? Can Apache keep up with your gigabit pipe?
because the Martians come out at night. Joe American is not ready to know about the Martians.
a pig green VOTE button??
This is proof once again that Apple is the only innovator in the industry. The PeeCee companies are just hollow shells, slapping their brands on cheap OEM boxes.
they seem to focus on india's side going up, and almost never on the us's going down.
Good point. I think this is a fact of life. The world economy will "level out" the standard of living across the globe, up and down. I live a cushy life in the USA, mostly due to good luck. I think it would be immoral for me to prevent other people (in India or wherever) from improving their standard of living. I think this leveling out will happen regardless of artificial tarifs or trade embargoes. It's just a matter of when. Let the interconnected global economy float everyone's boat.
Don't forget that, because of increase demand, Indian programmers have been asking for more money. There have been a number of Slashdot articles about jobs that would have been outsourced to India are now being outsourced to Romania and Vietnam because they are now cheaper. This is good news because it means Indians are making more money and their standard of living is improving.
but aren't Indians benefiting from new jobs? If they are willing to work for less money than me, why should they be denied the job opportunity simply because they were not born in the USA?
1. Carp about it on a geek forum
2. Ignore it - after all no one really cares how much money you spend on chewing gum from chewinggum.com
3. Find out how your congressperson voted on this issue, and call their office, then write a letter to them about it.
4. PROFIT!!!
The danger of cigarettes is not the nicotine. It's the smoke. Smoking nicotine-less cigarettes could still give you cancer. Chewing nicotine gum probably won't.
Reason Magazine has a pretty interesting article ("Snuff Treatment: Lying in the name of public health") about the US gub'mint lying to us about the dangers of chewing tabacco. Even though it is 90% less hazardous than cigarette smoking, numerous US health agencies repeatedly claim chewing tabacco is "just as dangerous" as smoking cigarettes.
man, that is fucking deep call stack..
Since no one gets my username, I must educate the world] Dave Cutler, NT 1.0's chief architect (and a rabid unix hater
btw, there was no NT 1.0. The first version of NT was NT 3.1, magically version-synced with Windows 3.1.
What happened to your music on your crashed hard disk? Could they salvage it?
Thanks for the recommendation. It sounds pretty interesting. I couldn't find anything on Amazon.com (US), but I did find this on Amazon.co.uk:
"Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss
thank you Unix for combining data and error conditions into one convenient return value!
Brightmail sucks. My employer uses Brightmail to keep company email inboxes clean from spam. It does not work. Everyday I still receive about 10 "Microsoft admin network patches" virus emails, Japanese spam, and pr0n spam with OBVIOUS keywords like "15 inch horse cock", "teen girls", and "3 inch anus". Most of this spam has obviously forged To: and From: headers, too.
If the KDE developers think KDE is so much better for business users, then why don't THEY create a KDE/Linux distro? Shucks, they could even wait for Bruce to release UserLinux, take his code, and replace GNOME with KDE. Just like that guy creating "White Box" Linux based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
OSS projects have such high quality because OSS projects by their very nature do not include grunt programmers.
This also explains why so many OSS projects have horrible usability.
Admittedly, Dean wants to "raise" taxes. He wants to repeal Bush's tax cuts to pay for Bush's huge budget deficit. Tax cuts without spending cuts (ala Bush) are actually tax increases.. you just have to pay later with interest.