so, the moral is something to the effect of: life is complicated, reading a book helps, but sometimes you need to call a mechanic.
But does the mechanic tell you to read the friggin' user's manual? Does he treat you with disdain, or ignore you outright? Yes, it's possible he does, but you know what? You can go find another mechanic, or complain to this one's boss. There are alot of elitist pendejos out there who could care less that you're trying to learn how to use this OS, and don't know much about it yet, and that's what needs to be fixed.
Mr. Dvorak thinks that either Bill Gates or Steve Jobs should have been Person of the Year in Time? I mean, c'mon, Jeff Beezos (sorry if spelled wrong) isn't worthy, but in all honesty, he's more worthy than either of those two. *puts on asbestos clothing* At least he did something innovative. To my admittedly limited knowledge, Amazon helped kick off the e-commerce revolution. I still don't agree with his being chosen as Person of the Year, but c'mon, John...Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? You've got to be kidding me...
"The Internet is largely the reason that communism died."
I can see his point to an extent, that the open flow of information makes it hard for dictators to keep a clamp on information, but it just isn't wholy true. The Internet didn't begin to come into prominence until the mid-90's, by which time most of the old Iron Curtain had fallen. It hasn't killed off Castro in Cuba, or Kim Il-Sung in North Korea. The Internet hasn't gotten Saddam Hussein out of Iraq, or Milosevic out of Bosnia either. It is still very easy for a government to restrict what information sources are available to their citizens. Iran, for instance, still heavily restricts what TV stations are available. And when it comes to the Internet, for most parts, if you control the phone system, you control the Internet access as well.
But back to the quote at hand. There are way too many other factors in the "death" of communism in Europe, I just can't see the Internet as one of them. Factors such as Reagan's policy of "offense through defense spending," among others, brought about the end of the Cold War, and communism in Europe. Not the Internet. Sorry, Mr. Roberts.
I read the article as talking about RTM's attacks on etoys. Which, btw, is really adult. </sarcasm> There are other ways to fight this battle. Etoys is in the wrong. After all, you don't see the government getting an injunction against whitehouse.com, do you? And RTM's actions will just serve to possibly bring more calls for legislation here in the US, more than anything else.
Over at Ace's Hardware, they've got a news item about AMD's forthcoming announcement of an 800 MHz Athlon, supposedly today as well. And (AFAIK) unlike Intel, AMD's supposed to be able to be shipping them in volume very soon. Intel's still got volume problems, especially with the 800 MHz chip.
I honestly think you're forgetting something. As has been stated in this article, this has been big news. The media, up until now, has portrayed Bill Gates as a quiet, philanthropic, good guy. People can't exactly imagine him doing anything like what Judge Jackson penned in his Findings.
Microsoft and Bill Gates took a *huge* PR hit Friday evening, and while they may be able to recover in a business sense, I don't think they'll be able to overcome this blow to their image. You're right, this may make no immediate difference in what operating systems are placed on millions of OEM computers. But this could be the first step that makes lots of computer buyers who aren't overly tech-savvy think "Well, maybe I don't want to support this kind of man/company, I'm going to go buy an iMac." Or it could push some more people towards Linux, or something else.
In the short term, yes, Microsoft isn't going to be affected to heavily. But in the longer term, I think this is going to cause problems. Personally, I am hoping Judge Jackson decides to break up Microsoft, like AT&T. I think that would benefit the consumer the most out of any of the other possible outcomes. I especially like having an Office Division out there...it's about the only thing I still use my Windows partition for. Star Office is coming along, but I still have my own problems with it.
Someone might have already answered this, but no, this was only Federal District Court, I think. There's still a few levels of appellate courts before MS could conceivably be arguing to the Supreme Court. However, I'm not even sure (from what I've been hearing, IANAL) that an appellate court would hear MS' appeal...
I'd bet the consumers would raise bloody hell over it. ESPECIALLY considering how long everyone waited to get the freaking DVD standard in the first place.
I'd bet the manufacturers would find a way to shift the fire onto "hackers" and such who evily break the encryption scheme, ruining it for everyone else...
As soon as teachers found out that you could beam information between them, they were pretty much banned at a lot of high/junior high schools in the area where I live.
This is a real deja vu for me because I had an HP calculator that suffered a similar ban because of the IR window...
This happened at my school too, except they weren't banned. And when it came time for the AP Calculus exam, they just put a little bit of electrical tape over the IR port. Easiest way to take them out of order, w/o breaking anything.
Same here...EECS 140 at the Univ. of Kansas. Wasn't an overly helpful book IMHO, either. Then again, the course material wasn't overly complicated either, hence the 100 level-class.
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Will leaving the default 3.3.5 SVGA driver work? I just upgraded to a RH 6.1 system, and pushed the Nvidia driver over the top again, but that little glitch with emacs is bugging me. I can't find an updated rpm, and don't really don't feel like recompiling if I don't have to...any suggestions?
This is not unlike what happens in other industries, for example oil. A few months ago, I could put gas in my car for less than a dollar a gallon. The first time it has ever happened in my life. For a while, I could even find it for $.93US a gallon. But then there was a teeny-tiny little oil scare, (thanks Saddam!) and BAM! oil prices sky-rocket. It costs me $1.25US per gallon now, if I'm lucky!
Here in the Kansas City area, I was able to fill my car up at about $0.71-$0.72/gallon. That was until about April or so, I think (sorry, fuzzy memory) Then the prices skyrocketed, and I'm paying almost $1.20/gallon nowadays. I know there was a little problem in the Middle East, but I can't believe this fully accounts for the rise. It didn't jump like this back in '91 when Iraq invaded Kuwait, and eventually set some of the wells on fire. IIRC, the government was going to look into this price increase, wondering if there's been some other reasons....
but REALLY...how does this fall under "news for nerds"
What do you mean, how is this "news for nerds"????
Scientific news can't be classified as "news for nerds"? Loosen up your collar, man, let some more blood flow north. It doesn't just have to be computer- or technology-based news to be considered here for/.
It's not the managers who are going to be doing the work, they're simply going to mandate "This will be secure!", if they know enough to mandate anything at all.
Most admins out there may not like doing multiple patches, but there are advantages. Some patches can open other holes, and using one of NT's service packs isn't guaranteed to fix everything either. And having them separated out allows an admin to more closely monitor what's been patched, rather than than NT's way of doing things.
It's like the NT vs. *nix discussion itself: each has its pros and cons. What it all boils down to is the competency of the guy/gal running the box.
This isn't final yet. If you read the article, it's good to remember that BellSouth or even Deutsche Telekom could still steal Sprint out from under MCI's nose...
No, it probably will. Even if this merger happens, they will still be smaller than AT&T. And if it does happen, it doesn't necessarily mean that Sprint disappears. It just means Sprint has a new owner. It'll make things interesting here in the KC area...Sprint just built/is building a *HUGE* "world campus" out near my parent's house...I shoulda asked the Sprint people at my school's Career Fair about this last week...;) Oh well.
An AC noted that this was done by Office 98, but I think more correctly, this is referring to the programs out there that are basically admin programs that compare the Mac's HD to an image, and if there's been any changes, it'll overwrite/delete/restore the changes, bringing the Mac back to where it was before the user/cracker/whatever started messing around with it. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the program, it's been over 4 years since I messed with it. RevRdist, I think. It *was* a nice admin tool for me to use in the dorm computer lab I ran way back when. I don't know if anything out there exists for Windows that will do it automatically. I know Ghost exists, but I think you have to do that manually. *shrugs*.
Perhaps, but this cable company is a small in-town provider. I don't claim to know all, but they've been upgrading their lines, going digital, etc. I'm worried about them being able to detect what I'm doing. I'm not one of the unwashed masses, either, though. It's not something I'm worried about right now, so we'll see.
It depends on your terms of service with your cable company. With my cable company (Sunflower Cable, small local company), I'm not allowed to run anything resembling a server. I could probably get away with it, but there's no guarantees, and if they catch me, I'm in breach of terms, and they could cut off my service. I've heard @Home or Roadrunner (don't remember) are alot more lenient about how you use your service. I'd really like to run a Masq box so we don't have to pay for two connections, but oh well...
As far as the employee departure issue goes, this was not the departure of a run-of-the-mill employee. This was not a low-level position. As it appears to me, this was the lead GUI developer with Red Hat, although I could easily be mistaken.
It doesn't matter. It *is* bad form to do much of any public talking about an employee's departure. You don't see Fortune 500 companies saying much when CEO's leave, do you?
I'm tired of swapping GUI environments; I want to see Red Hat stabilize. That's not going to happen in the next release if we go to Windowmaker, or some other wm that supports gnome
You don't have to keep swapping environments. Just like with kernels, there's noone out there saying "YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR WINDOW MANAGER!". That's one of the great things about Linux, IMHO...I can change my window manager on a whim. And I've been pondering dumping E/Gnome for Windowmaker lately, myself. And there's never been any word out there that E wouldn't support Gnome anymore. And if there was, it'd probably be from Raster's end, not Red Hat's.
As far as the IPO is concerned, lots of trouble could have been avoided if Etrade qualified you before you sent the money.
How can you say that this is a problem of Red Hat's? They have nothing to do with the way E*Trade runs shop.
You'll pardon my saying so, but I think you've got some wrong impressions about things. I don't mean this as a flame or a slam, just an opinion.
You mean it's not a problem with emacs? I've been trying to fix that in my emacs settings for a long time now....Do you have any more information on that?
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so, the moral is something to the effect of: life is complicated, reading a book helps, but sometimes you need to call a mechanic.
But does the mechanic tell you to read the friggin' user's manual? Does he treat you with disdain, or ignore you outright? Yes, it's possible he does, but you know what? You can go find another mechanic, or complain to this one's boss. There are alot of elitist pendejos out there who could care less that you're trying to learn how to use this OS, and don't know much about it yet, and that's what needs to be fixed.
Mr. Dvorak thinks that either Bill Gates or Steve Jobs should have been Person of the Year in Time? I mean, c'mon, Jeff Beezos (sorry if spelled wrong) isn't worthy, but in all honesty, he's more worthy than either of those two. *puts on asbestos clothing* At least he did something innovative. To my admittedly limited knowledge, Amazon helped kick off the e-commerce revolution. I still don't agree with his being chosen as Person of the Year, but c'mon, John...Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? You've got to be kidding me...
That was the point I was trying to make. Sorry if it didn't come across clearly. Frazzled brains suck.
I love Larry Roberts' quote:
"The Internet is largely the reason that communism died."
I can see his point to an extent, that the open flow of information makes it hard for dictators to keep a clamp on information, but it just isn't wholy true. The Internet didn't begin to come into prominence until the mid-90's, by which time most of the old Iron Curtain had fallen. It hasn't killed off Castro in Cuba, or Kim Il-Sung in North Korea. The Internet hasn't gotten Saddam Hussein out of Iraq, or Milosevic out of Bosnia either. It is still very easy for a government to restrict what information sources are available to their citizens. Iran, for instance, still heavily restricts what TV stations are available. And when it comes to the Internet, for most parts, if you control the phone system, you control the Internet access as well.
But back to the quote at hand. There are way too many other factors in the "death" of communism in Europe, I just can't see the Internet as one of them. Factors such as Reagan's policy of "offense through defense spending," among others, brought about the end of the Cold War, and communism in Europe. Not the Internet. Sorry, Mr. Roberts.
I read the article as talking about RTM's attacks on etoys. Which, btw, is really adult. </sarcasm> There are other ways to fight this battle. Etoys is in the wrong. After all, you don't see the government getting an injunction against whitehouse.com, do you? And RTM's actions will just serve to possibly bring more calls for legislation here in the US, more than anything else.
<sarcasm> Thanks guys.</sarcasm>
Man, me and my addled brain today...forgot to mention they've also got reviews of the new chips (800 MHz, Intel and AMD) up there too...
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Over at Ace's Hardware, they've got a news item about AMD's forthcoming announcement of an 800 MHz Athlon, supposedly today as well. And (AFAIK) unlike Intel, AMD's supposed to be able to be shipping them in volume very soon. Intel's still got volume problems, especially with the 800 MHz chip.
I honestly think you're forgetting something. As has been stated in this article, this has been big news. The media, up until now, has portrayed Bill Gates as a quiet, philanthropic, good guy. People can't exactly imagine him doing anything like what Judge Jackson penned in his Findings.
Microsoft and Bill Gates took a *huge* PR hit Friday evening, and while they may be able to recover in a business sense, I don't think they'll be able to overcome this blow to their image. You're right, this may make no immediate difference in what operating systems are placed on millions of OEM computers. But this could be the first step that makes lots of computer buyers who aren't overly tech-savvy think "Well, maybe I don't want to support this kind of man/company, I'm going to go buy an iMac." Or it could push some more people towards Linux, or something else.
In the short term, yes, Microsoft isn't going to be affected to heavily. But in the longer term, I think this is going to cause problems. Personally, I am hoping Judge Jackson decides to break up Microsoft, like AT&T. I think that would benefit the consumer the most out of any of the other possible outcomes. I especially like having an Office Division out there...it's about the only thing I still use my Windows partition for. Star Office is coming along, but I still have my own problems with it.
Someone might have already answered this, but no, this was only Federal District Court, I think. There's still a few levels of appellate courts before MS could conceivably be arguing to the Supreme Court. However, I'm not even sure (from what I've been hearing, IANAL) that an appellate court would hear MS' appeal...
I'd bet the consumers would raise bloody hell over it. ESPECIALLY considering how long everyone waited to get the freaking DVD standard in the first place.
I'd bet the manufacturers would find a way to shift the fire onto "hackers" and such who evily break the encryption scheme, ruining it for everyone else...
As soon as teachers found out that you could beam information between them, they were pretty much banned at a lot of high/junior high schools in the area where I live.
This is a real deja vu for me because I had an HP calculator that suffered a similar ban because of the IR window...
This happened at my school too, except they weren't banned. And when it came time for the AP Calculus exam, they just put a little bit of electrical tape over the IR port. Easiest way to take them out of order, w/o breaking anything.
Same here...EECS 140 at the Univ. of Kansas. Wasn't an overly helpful book IMHO, either. Then again, the course material wasn't overly complicated either, hence the 100 level-class.
Will leaving the default 3.3.5 SVGA driver work? I just upgraded to a RH 6.1 system, and pushed the Nvidia driver over the top again, but that little glitch with emacs is bugging me. I can't find an updated rpm, and don't really don't feel like recompiling if I don't have to...any suggestions?
Where did you find the trailer? I've been looking around Disney's site, and can't find anything...
Mozilla is based on Netscape's code is it not?
No, Mozilla is brand new code. They threw out the old engine/code. It sounds troll-ish, but if you'd been paying attention, you'd know that.
This is not unlike what happens in other industries, for example oil. A few months ago, I could put gas in my car for less than a dollar a gallon. The first time it has ever happened in my life. For a while, I could even find it for $.93US a gallon. But then there was a teeny-tiny little oil scare, (thanks Saddam!) and BAM! oil prices sky-rocket. It costs me $1.25US per gallon now, if I'm lucky!
Here in the Kansas City area, I was able to fill my car up at about $0.71-$0.72/gallon. That was until about April or so, I think (sorry, fuzzy memory) Then the prices skyrocketed, and I'm paying almost $1.20/gallon nowadays. I know there was a little problem in the Middle East, but I can't believe this fully accounts for the rise. It didn't jump like this back in '91 when Iraq invaded Kuwait, and eventually set some of the wells on fire. IIRC, the government was going to look into this price increase, wondering if there's been some other reasons....
but REALLY...how does this fall under "news for nerds"
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What do you mean, how is this "news for nerds"????
Scientific news can't be classified as "news for nerds"? Loosen up your collar, man, let some more blood flow north. It doesn't just have to be computer- or technology-based news to be considered here for
It's not the managers who are going to be doing the work, they're simply going to mandate "This will be secure!", if they know enough to mandate anything at all.
Most admins out there may not like doing multiple patches, but there are advantages. Some patches can open other holes, and using one of NT's service packs isn't guaranteed to fix everything either. And having them separated out allows an admin to more closely monitor what's been patched, rather than than NT's way of doing things.
It's like the NT vs. *nix discussion itself: each has its pros and cons. What it all boils down to is the competency of the guy/gal running the box.
This isn't final yet. If you read the article, it's good to remember that BellSouth or even Deutsche Telekom could still steal Sprint out from under MCI's nose...
No, it probably will. Even if this merger happens, they will still be smaller than AT&T. And if it does happen, it doesn't necessarily mean that Sprint disappears. It just means Sprint has a new owner. It'll make things interesting here in the KC area...Sprint just built/is building a *HUGE* "world campus" out near my parent's house...I shoulda asked the Sprint people at my school's Career Fair about this last week...;) Oh well.
An AC noted that this was done by Office 98, but I think more correctly, this is referring to the programs out there that are basically admin programs that compare the Mac's HD to an image, and if there's been any changes, it'll overwrite/delete/restore the changes, bringing the Mac back to where it was before the user/cracker/whatever started messing around with it. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the program, it's been over 4 years since I messed with it. RevRdist, I think. It *was* a nice admin tool for me to use in the dorm computer lab I ran way back when. I don't know if anything out there exists for Windows that will do it automatically. I know Ghost exists, but I think you have to do that manually. *shrugs*.
Perhaps, but this cable company is a small in-town provider. I don't claim to know all, but they've been upgrading their lines, going digital, etc. I'm worried about them being able to detect what I'm doing. I'm not one of the unwashed masses, either, though. It's not something I'm worried about right now, so we'll see.
It depends on your terms of service with your cable company. With my cable company (Sunflower Cable, small local company), I'm not allowed to run anything resembling a server. I could probably get away with it, but there's no guarantees, and if they catch me, I'm in breach of terms, and they could cut off my service. I've heard @Home or Roadrunner (don't remember) are alot more lenient about how you use your service. I'd really like to run a Masq box so we don't have to pay for two connections, but oh well...
As far as the employee departure issue goes, this was not the departure of a run-of-the-mill employee. This was not a low-level position. As it appears to me, this was the lead GUI developer with Red Hat, although I could easily be mistaken.
It doesn't matter. It *is* bad form to do much of any public talking about an employee's departure. You don't see Fortune 500 companies saying much when CEO's leave, do you?
I'm tired of swapping GUI environments; I want to see Red Hat stabilize. That's not going to happen in the next release if we go to Windowmaker, or some other wm that supports gnome
You don't have to keep swapping environments. Just like with kernels, there's noone out there saying "YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR WINDOW MANAGER!". That's one of the great things about Linux, IMHO...I can change my window manager on a whim. And I've been pondering dumping E/Gnome for Windowmaker lately, myself. And there's never been any word out there that E wouldn't support Gnome anymore. And if there was, it'd probably be from Raster's end, not Red Hat's.
As far as the IPO is concerned, lots of trouble could have been avoided if Etrade qualified you before you sent the money.
How can you say that this is a problem of Red Hat's? They have nothing to do with the way E*Trade runs shop.
You'll pardon my saying so, but I think you've got some wrong impressions about things. I don't mean this as a flame or a slam, just an opinion.
You mean it's not a problem with emacs? I've been trying to fix that in my emacs settings for a long time now....Do you have any more information on that?
Thanks...