You can get cheap ipsec boxes to connect sites to each other over ethernet. Red Creek (still around, to my great surprise) makes a 6-ounce, 6x4 inch device that connects ethernet to ethernet, and runs ipsec over one ethernet link. Put one of these in each secure enclosure, and you should be in business!
We should all keep in mind this simple truth: Wired Magazine is dying.
You don't need to be Rossetto to predict Wired's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Wired faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Wired because Wired is dying. Things are looking very bad for Wired. As many of us are already aware, Wired continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Famed Wired author Negroponte states that there are 7000 subscribers to Wired Magazine. How many readers of Wired News are there? Let's see. The number of Wired versus Wired News posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 1 to 4. Therefore there are about 7000*5 = 35000 Wired News readers. HotWired posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Wired News posts. Therefore there are about 700 readers of HotWired. A recent article put Hotbot at about.008 percent of the search engine market. Therefore there are (7000/100)*.008 =.56 Hotbot users.
Due to the troubles of Suck.com, abysmal click-through rates and so on, Wired went bankrupt and was sold to Conde Nast. Now Conde Nast is also dying and the corpse of Wired will soon be turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Wired has steadily declined in market share. Wired is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Wired is to survive at all it will be among tech magazine hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. Wired continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Wired is dead.
I looked at the faq and found that it won't be very useful:
Under MkLinux, the PowerBook 1400, 2300, and 5300 are partially supported.
External SCSI support is not working yet, nor is support for the internal
modem or card-based ethernet (internal). PCMCIA cards are not supported
on any PowerBook. Thus, the systems are a bit isolated, but they're useful
for development, etc.
How old does a Mac have to be before it can't run YDL or LinuxPPC? I have a PowerBook 5300 (yucko) that I would like to use for something other than a doorstop, and wonder if installing YDL on it is possible, or sheer folly.
Renting whatever is always a lose-win situation for the customer and the renter
I sound like John McLaughlin today, but: WRONG!
Renting can be a good deal, depending on your situation. If you aren't keeping it for a very long time, renting an apartment or a car is a lot better than buying it and selling it later: you have certainty of cost through the term of the lease, and you don't have to worry about routine maintenance. Your landlord or rental car agency takes care of all that.
Software is a little bit different because it's really a consumable. If the version gets old, you can't really resell it for much (forget for a moment the licensing issues) - but it's easy to extend its useful life beyond the 3 years normally planned. (I still use Office 97 for Windows, for example.) For this reason, I do think that renting desktop, OS, and so on SW is a bad idea.
But people gladly pay annual support ("rent") for other things - e.g. anti-virus software. It all depends on how much service you're getting from the vendor during the "rental" period.
Oh, come on. MS has been trying to get a monthly billing relationship with its customers since MSN was introduced with Windows 95 way back in the day. So what? Every vendor would like to have such a relationship, but whether or not it is realistic is quite another question.
Sure, MS would like to have everyone pay for Windows by subscription. And they would like for everyone to have a Passport account, et cetera. But they will only succeed if they can make this attractive for their customers - and recent history shows that they have not been able to do so.
As long as I can get email and web services from another of the 5,000 or so ISPs operating, and I can use Yahoo, and I can use a Mac, I'm really not worried that much about this particular threat of Microsoft monopoly.
I have right here in front of me a copy of the very first FrontPage, by Vermeer Technologies, copyright 1995. From the package:
Visual tools make modifications as simple as dragging-and-dropping.
- Drag-and-drop hyperlink editing ...
Desktop publishing features create professional-looking results.
- Hide HTML code with WYSIWYG editor
- Create "hotspots" on images with clickable image editor
- Add interactive forms with just a few mouse clicks ...
WebBots (tm) eliminate programming tasks while Web Wizards guide you through the creation process.
Built in WebBots let you:
- Create bulletin boards for threaded discussion groups
- Save information from fields automatically ... Web Wizards simplify the development of:
- External Web sites
- Internal Web sites for corporate information distribution Select from over twenty page templates or create your own.
Then sue the fuckers under the anti-terrorism/hacking statutes. I for one would love to see Hilary Rosen in jail with abortion clinic bombers and drug traffickers!
Hell, they're looking
FOWARED to being soaked every year with a subscription service! "We can move if the service sucks." HA! You'll continue being the bitch and
you'll LIKE it.
Maybe because they measure their careers by the size of their budgets?
When you buy software from a vendor,
you can always turn to its help desk, however
incompetent. With open source, you're on your own.
Hmmm, I guess the author never heard of the 100s of vendors selling OSS solutions? Maybe this is the "content" that PHBs read and get their weird ideas from.
Here we have CIOs saying they want to pay subscription rates for software:
Fortunately, there are a host of alternative solutions on
the horizon, and a growing number of CIOs are determined
to make them a reality. They include renewable licensing
agreements, in which CIOs purchase the right to use
software for two to three years at about 85 percent of the
cost of what they'd pay under a perpetual license. CIOs
then have the option to renew the license at the end of
the term if they're happy with the quality of the product
and the support. Subscription licensing agreements are
similar to renewable licenses, except the term is shorter,
lasting about a year, and CIOs rent the software, as
opposed to owning it.
Aren't they just playing into the hands of vendors who want to increase ongoing revenue for product they used to just sell once? I don't get it.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't their non-MP3 MP3 player use Microsoft DRM? No wonder it went overlike a lead balloon! Serves 'em right.
You can get cheap ipsec boxes to connect sites to each other over ethernet. Red Creek (still around, to my great surprise) makes a 6-ounce, 6x4 inch device that connects ethernet to ethernet, and runs ipsec over one ethernet link. Put one of these in each secure enclosure, and you should be in business!
We should all keep in mind this simple truth: Wired Magazine is dying.
.008 percent of the search engine market. Therefore there are (7000/100)*.008 = .56 Hotbot users.
You don't need to be Rossetto to predict Wired's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Wired faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Wired because Wired is dying. Things are looking very bad for Wired. As many of us are already aware, Wired continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Famed Wired author Negroponte states that there are 7000 subscribers to Wired Magazine. How many readers of Wired News are there? Let's see. The number of Wired versus Wired News posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 1 to 4. Therefore there are about 7000*5 = 35000 Wired News readers. HotWired posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Wired News posts. Therefore there are about 700 readers of HotWired. A recent article put Hotbot at about
Due to the troubles of Suck.com, abysmal click-through rates and so on, Wired went bankrupt and was sold to Conde Nast. Now Conde Nast is also dying and the corpse of Wired will soon be turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Wired has steadily declined in market share. Wired is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Wired is to survive at all it will be among tech magazine hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. Wired continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Wired is dead.
Oh, wait, I don't have any! Oh well.
Under MkLinux, the PowerBook 1400, 2300, and 5300 are partially supported. External SCSI support is not working yet, nor is support for the internal modem or card-based ethernet (internal). PCMCIA cards are not supported on any PowerBook. Thus, the systems are a bit isolated, but they're useful for development, etc.
Oh well!
How old does a Mac have to be before it can't run YDL or LinuxPPC? I have a PowerBook 5300 (yucko) that I would like to use for something other than a doorstop, and wonder if installing YDL on it is possible, or sheer folly.
I get pix by email from Ritz Camera. What's the problem there? No additional spam.
I sound like John McLaughlin today, but: WRONG!
Renting can be a good deal, depending on your situation. If you aren't keeping it for a very long time, renting an apartment or a car is a lot better than buying it and selling it later: you have certainty of cost through the term of the lease, and you don't have to worry about routine maintenance. Your landlord or rental car agency takes care of all that.
Software is a little bit different because it's really a consumable. If the version gets old, you can't really resell it for much (forget for a moment the licensing issues) - but it's easy to extend its useful life beyond the 3 years normally planned. (I still use Office 97 for Windows, for example.) For this reason, I do think that renting desktop, OS, and so on SW is a bad idea.
But people gladly pay annual support ("rent") for other things - e.g. anti-virus software. It all depends on how much service you're getting from the vendor during the "rental" period.
Sure, MS would like to have everyone pay for Windows by subscription. And they would like for everyone to have a Passport account, et cetera. But they will only succeed if they can make this attractive for their customers - and recent history shows that they have not been able to do so.
As long as I can get email and web services from another of the 5,000 or so ISPs operating, and I can use Yahoo, and I can use a Mac, I'm really not worried that much about this particular threat of Microsoft monopoly.
Oh for some mod points .. glad to see someone has something funny to say on this depressing topic.
Ever lived in a college town? I know of lots of wine shops who check ID, um, less than vigorously. And I think it should stay that way!
Ellison is a lying sack of shit (Score:3, Informative)
No kidding!
Do I get a Yellow Card as a warning, and a Red Card when I'm about to be thrown out of the country?
Well, one of the guys who bought his ticket in cash was on the FBI's Most Wanted list, so they could have caught him. IIRC.
So now there will be an "Organic" aisle at Fry's, with pretty green labels and much higher prices?
Ummm, it's slashdot. What do you think?
Yes, because one hopes the motherboard won't have a 20 second "Slow Down, Cowboy!" timer.
Good news: the former choice is available again!
Or send a fax. Faxes use the office's own paper - plus they're more attention-getting than snail mail.
Visual tools make modifications as simple as dragging-and-dropping.
...
- Drag-and-drop hyperlink editing
Desktop publishing features create professional-looking results.
...
- Hide HTML code with WYSIWYG editor
- Create "hotspots" on images with clickable image editor
- Add interactive forms with just a few mouse clicks
WebBots (tm) eliminate programming tasks while Web Wizards guide you through the creation process.
Built in WebBots let you:
...
- Create bulletin boards for threaded discussion groups
- Save information from fields automatically
Web Wizards simplify the development of:
- External Web sites
- Internal Web sites for corporate information distribution
Select from over twenty page templates or create your own.
So is this prior art or what?
Then sue the fuckers under the anti-terrorism/hacking statutes. I for one would love to see Hilary Rosen in jail with abortion clinic bombers and drug traffickers!
I like it even better when a spell checker does its job.
Maybe because they measure their careers by the size of their budgets?
Hmmm, I guess the author never heard of the 100s of vendors selling OSS solutions? Maybe this is the "content" that PHBs read and get their weird ideas from.
Fortunately, there are a host of alternative solutions on the horizon, and a growing number of CIOs are determined to make them a reality. They include renewable licensing agreements, in which CIOs purchase the right to use software for two to three years at about 85 percent of the cost of what they'd pay under a perpetual license. CIOs then have the option to renew the license at the end of the term if they're happy with the quality of the product and the support. Subscription licensing agreements are similar to renewable licenses, except the term is shorter, lasting about a year, and CIOs rent the software, as opposed to owning it.
Aren't they just playing into the hands of vendors who want to increase ongoing revenue for product they used to just sell once? I don't get it.