Heh, another case of "I didn't read the article, everyone recap it for me"...
Hmmm... decisions decisions.
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K6-3 on Monday
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Is the K7 a whole new architecture, or just another x86? I'm wondering if we'll have to wait for the kernel mongers to have to develop for it, or if Linux (or any x86 OS) is usable right away.
I work at a HUGE corporation, and we have to pay via a 1-900 number to get support from MS. And of course, they always just blame it on some non-MS software that's installed on the PCs.
Then again, our two NT "experts" only have one chant when something goes wrong, "Repair or rebuild, that's all I can think of."
Please, somebody hire me to take me away from this nonsense!!
What all is needed to do roaming profiles? I have logon path = \\%L\%U\.winprofile set, which is all the Samba book says is needed. Yet my Win98s don't ever write their info to there.
On the other hand, a year or more ago I used it and it was fine (for Win95 back then). Then when I wanted to stop it, I removed the one line, and it still would read/write to that directory... Go figure. And yes, I restarted Samba after making the change.:)
What sort of a network do you use? At work we use Token Ring, it's sorta fast but I wouldn't say it's faster than a hard drive. My home 100baseT is fast, maybe closer, but I don't think it's that fast...
No formal survey, just my opinions when I've moved large files to & fro both at work and at home.
Does samba 2.* have much in the way of user/group accesses to shares? Currently they handle the NT server's shares by just creating 1:1 group:share. Then just add needed users to the group, and then only they can access that share (a few world readable shares, but those are easy). So basically, can you set that only this one group can access a certain share?
If so, I'm sure I can talk the boss into it.
Oh, is there any sort of surveys on how much stress Samba can take on given hardware?
I'd really love to get into converting this company I work at (tres large, if you know what I mean:)). Two of the major applications we use are Notes and IBM Personal Communications for the mainframe access.
I noticed Notes had some fairly positive entries in winehq.com's app list. But on the other, under tn3270 things work, but not everything. What we use is a protocol called something like "IBM 802.2 LLC2". Is there anything like this in Linux? Any other pointers?
Oh, thought of another, we use a good number of Lexmark print boxes hooked up to printers. Is there any info on what protocol they use, or some program to set them up, talk to them? Slowly we're switching to JetDirect, so hopefully once HP gets on the ball we can use at least those from a Linux server.
Then we'll have people just registering numbers. IBM will sue anyone with '123' in their IP. That reminds me, better sign up for some trademarks on all the digits. That'll cover me.
The earth.com guy says Mondial bought the name which some other company registered in '85 after he registered earth.com in '94.
That's what I got out of it anyway.
Don't worry about Earth -- it's mostly harmless
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Battle over earth.com
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No! Earth has gotten away with this blatent abuse of this obvious trademark for far too long already. It's about time those inhabitants paid for what's rightfully this shoe company's trademark.
When? Well my unedjicated guess would be when the trademark office starts saying "No! You can't trademark that!!" and then hit a button under their desk and the people fall down the trap door and are eaten alive by a pack of lions.
If that doesn't happen, I don't see any end to these patent/trademark issues Slashdot is always posting.
I think Rob redid posting so they are in reverse chronological order. I predict the net result of this will be plenty of "First" posts, as all these kids will want their post to be at the top...
If you're really anxious to get it: upload.kde.org,/pub/kde/Incoming
Or wait a day or so for them to move it to the normal distribution directories.
GPL is compatible with Troll's interests.
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KDE 1.1 is out
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A GPL'ed library could be used commercially as long as that commercial product was GPL'ed as well. That's good in some ways, but most companies wouldn't want to open up their code, and thus Troll would make considerably less money off it.
The QPL allows them to keep food on their tables, and Open Source people to keep the source open.
Why would it be a cone? Assuming your yard is a rectangle, then it would just extend straight up, not conularly. And if it was coned, your neighbor would also have a cone, and the two would intersect... Too many compliations there.
Go to www.intuit.com, click on WebTurboTax off on the right. You can fill out the information, and file a federal return for like $20. And it's not OS specific.:)
You may want to try just dialing up with a normal term program like minicom. My bank has an online checking thing, but they only offer the software for Windows/Mac. After a few penetrating phone calls, I finally got that answer. It's got a nice little interface, and I can download my accounts' history and save as a Quicken QIF file.
I'm surprised no one's commented on this yet. That's a great name if parents want to torture their kid (especially a daughter). Sure seems fun idea to be in that family.
I can remember back when P2s and K6s where still vaporware, and all these kids clamoring for N64 emulators/roms. Even when 486 DX2/66s were hot, they demanded SNES emulators/roms. They have no sense of what it takes to emulate systems specialized to play games on a generic all-purpose computer.
I used to hang out on #emu too when the N64 had just come out, and they started flooding in demanding emulators for it. I gave in and, as a joke, made a little program. It did nothing more than say your CPU didn't meet the requirements. And well, back then nothing could do it. Next month is the three year anniversary of that day, and I still get emails, "It says my CPU isn't good enough, I have a P2/450 or something". Fifteen minutes in Delphi, a 100K zip, and people expect it to work...
It was a cute joke for me, and a couple other people I gave it to. Give it to dolts begging for N64 warez, and laugh at them for falling for it (and not seeing the obvious joke in it). But it got spread like wildfire all over the warez scene, and still is today. One guy on AOL even made a web page saying he made it. Of maybe 1100 emails I've received, only maybe 5 or so realized it's true meaning.
What's my point in all this? I don't know. But if you think emulators are about technical abilities of programmers and all, you're only kidding yourself. 99.99% of the people who show interest in emulators only want to be able to play the games for free.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh, another case of "I didn't read the article, everyone recap it for me" ...
Is the K7 a whole new architecture, or just another x86? I'm wondering if we'll have to wait for the kernel mongers to have to develop for it, or if Linux (or any x86 OS) is usable right away.
how about:
... run Slashdot.org.
:)
I work at a HUGE corporation, and we have to pay via a 1-900 number to get support from MS. And of course, they always just blame it on some non-MS software that's installed on the PCs.
Then again, our two NT "experts" only have one chant when something goes wrong, "Repair or rebuild, that's all I can think of."
Please, somebody hire me to take me away from this nonsense!!
What all is needed to do roaming profiles? I have logon path = \\%L\%U\.winprofile set, which is all the Samba book says is needed. Yet my Win98s don't ever write their info to there.
:)
On the other hand, a year or more ago I used it and it was fine (for Win95 back then). Then when I wanted to stop it, I removed the one line, and it still would read/write to that directory... Go figure. And yes, I restarted Samba after making the change.
What sort of a network do you use? At work we use Token Ring, it's sorta fast but I wouldn't say it's faster than a hard drive. My home 100baseT is fast, maybe closer, but I don't think it's that fast...
No formal survey, just my opinions when I've moved large files to & fro both at work and at home.
Does samba 2.* have much in the way of user/group accesses to shares? Currently they handle the NT server's shares by just creating 1:1 group:share. Then just add needed users to the group, and then only they can access that share (a few world readable shares, but those are easy). So basically, can you set that only this one group can access a certain share?
If so, I'm sure I can talk the boss into it.
Oh, is there any sort of surveys on how much stress Samba can take on given hardware?
I'd really love to get into converting this company I work at (tres large, if you know what I mean :)). Two of the major applications we use are Notes and IBM Personal Communications for the mainframe access.
I noticed Notes had some fairly positive entries in winehq.com's app list. But on the other, under tn3270 things work, but not everything. What we use is a protocol called something like "IBM 802.2 LLC2". Is there anything like this in Linux? Any other pointers?
Oh, thought of another, we use a good number of Lexmark print boxes hooked up to printers. Is there any info on what protocol they use, or some program to set them up, talk to them? Slowly we're switching to JetDirect, so hopefully once HP gets on the ball we can use at least those from a Linux server.
Heh, at the bottom there's a picture of a guy using this device, but there's no baggie under it in that one picture...
Just observing, feel free to draw your own conclusions.
Then we'll have people just registering numbers. IBM will sue anyone with '123' in their IP. That reminds me, better sign up for some trademarks on all the digits. That'll cover me.
The earth.com guy says Mondial bought the name which some other company registered in '85 after he registered earth.com in '94.
That's what I got out of it anyway.
No! Earth has gotten away with this blatent abuse of this obvious trademark for far too long already. It's about time those inhabitants paid for what's rightfully this shoe company's trademark.
When? Well my unedjicated guess would be when the trademark office starts saying "No! You can't trademark that!!" and then hit a button under their desk and the people fall down the trap door and are eaten alive by a pack of lions.
If that doesn't happen, I don't see any end to these patent/trademark issues Slashdot is always posting.
I think Rob redid posting so they are in reverse chronological order. I predict the net result of this will be plenty of "First" posts, as all these kids will want their post to be at the top...
If you're really anxious to get it: /pub/kde/Incoming
upload.kde.org,
Or wait a day or so for them to move it to the normal distribution directories.
A GPL'ed library could be used commercially as long as that commercial product was GPL'ed as well. That's good in some ways, but most companies wouldn't want to open up their code, and thus Troll would make considerably less money off it.
The QPL allows them to keep food on their tables, and Open Source people to keep the source open.
Why would it be a cone? Assuming your yard is a rectangle, then it would just extend straight up, not conularly. And if it was coned, your neighbor would also have a cone, and the two would intersect... Too many compliations there.
Nah, watch discovery channel. Whenever they do some space travel/colonization piece, they have this guy that sells land on the moon, mars, etc.
People will sell (and buy) anything.
Go to www.intuit.com, click on WebTurboTax off on the right. You can fill out the information, and file a federal return for like $20. And it's not OS specific. :)
You may want to try just dialing up with a normal term program like minicom. My bank has an online checking thing, but they only offer the software for Windows/Mac. After a few penetrating phone calls, I finally got that answer. It's got a nice little interface, and I can download my accounts' history and save as a Quicken QIF file.
C.A.R. Hoare
I'm surprised no one's commented on this yet. That's a great name if parents want to torture their kid (especially a daughter). Sure seems fun idea to be in that family.
Gateshead?? That's one scarey sounding name for a town...
A. WELL, THEY CAUSE US TO REALLY HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, INSURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO INNOVATE AND OFFER VALUE TO OUR CUSTOMERS.
"You know, innovate, offer value" wink, wink. I predict totally new and incompatible file formats for every future MS Office product.
I can remember back when P2s and K6s where still vaporware, and all these kids clamoring for N64 emulators/roms. Even when 486 DX2/66s were hot, they demanded SNES emulators/roms. They have no sense of what it takes to emulate systems specialized to play games on a generic all-purpose computer.
I used to hang out on #emu too when the N64 had just come out, and they started flooding in demanding emulators for it. I gave in and, as a joke, made a little program. It did nothing more than say your CPU didn't meet the requirements. And well, back then nothing could do it. Next month is the three year anniversary of that day, and I still get emails, "It says my CPU isn't good enough, I have a P2/450 or something". Fifteen minutes in Delphi, a 100K zip, and people expect it to work...
It was a cute joke for me, and a couple other people I gave it to. Give it to dolts begging for N64 warez, and laugh at them for falling for it (and not seeing the obvious joke in it). But it got spread like wildfire all over the warez scene, and still is today. One guy on AOL even made a web page saying he made it. Of maybe 1100 emails I've received, only maybe 5 or so realized it's true meaning.
What's my point in all this? I don't know. But if you think emulators are about technical abilities of programmers and all, you're only kidding yourself. 99.99% of the people who show interest in emulators only want to be able to play the games for free.
Yeah, who really is reading that as 25 cents per chip...
Still, imaging the power of 1000 alpha computers. Go for it in a DES4...