All these searches will have been people trying to find a fix for the problems that arise after installing Office 2003 and discovering that adobe acrobat 5 or lower stops working on some machines. Word2003 tries to open pdf files and the explorer file link to pdf documents gets broken. But not every machine has the same problem...
SCO were in dire straits, no one was buying their product and united Linux wasn't really happening.
Someone wanted GPL broken
Someone came up with the bright idea that if SCO with their odd collection of copyrights starts a lawsuit then GPL will go to court and will end up invaliated in which case the whole Open source movement is screwed, and "real" software companies can get back to making money.
SCO is simply being sacrificed, obviously the board are doing quite nicely out of it and SCOs employees are probably being kept employed for a while longer.
So everyone's a winner!
unless the GPL stands up... but then SCO is still dead and the investors behind it are still making off with the cash they made while the stock price was high
IBM might have put the crusoe Tpad on hold due to pressure from intel, like everyone else they have had problems with Intel chip supply, and I don't mean for their desktop stuff but for their multiprocessor NT boxes which I'm guessing they shift a suitably large number of and which are specced with the best CPUs.
Or it could be that either the Tpad wasn't going to make it out of the factories in time or even that all the other Crusoe based laptops are mainly aimed at non-corporate consumers who wanna watch DVDs, most of the reviews of the crusoe gear I've seen so far reckon it's bad at business apps and great at DvD playback, this would fit with the marketing issue IBM have... just some thoughts
I was awaiting the crusoe thinkpad eagerly, I checked out the old celeron 240's and they were great, really well put together, like the 600's, however the i series thinkpads were really about the same quality as everyone else's laptop, so the IBM advantage sank to simply being black (sorry stealth grey) and badged
for me important laptop features are weight, battery life, ports and size. The 240 meets all these requirements, it's NOT a desktop replacement so CPU speed is not a big requirement and a crusoe 240 should be lighter with longer battery life etc.
Unfortunately the crusoe 240 was to be built by quanta so there might be quality issues there.
I for one aren't particularly sad to see the project "on hold" and Linus being on board didn't really influence me, although at the back of my mind was the knowledge that a crusoe box would support Linux really well!
we want more cool movies to come out so we have 2 choices:
1. go see cool movies, as much as possible, the bean counters will see large box office and ok a number of BAD clones of the original. Don't go and see any of these movies, maybe the head bean counter will be able to do the "make original movies dude" math.
2. become a billionaire, then setup a production company that only makes cool movies!
MPAA... money isn't really the issue to them, it is to 2600.
LCD is the way to go, and my next monitor will be flat, I'd like to upgrade but swallowing £500 (uk) for 15.1" screen is loads, never mind 1500+++ for a nice 18" screen, LCDs are apparently going to drop in price next summer due to over manufacture so maybe we'll see a drop to 17 & 19" crt price levels... now that would get a sale from me...
I have thought of just going CRT but I don't play games and don't wanna lug around heavy monitors no more!
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I predict the intel macs will be black.
All these searches will have been people trying to find a fix for the problems that arise after installing Office 2003 and discovering that adobe acrobat 5 or lower stops working on some machines. Word2003 tries to open pdf files and the explorer file link to pdf documents gets broken.
But not every machine has the same problem...
Thanks Microsoft you rock!
SCO were in dire straits, no one was buying their product and united Linux wasn't really happening.
Someone wanted GPL broken
Someone came up with the bright idea that if SCO with their odd collection of copyrights starts a lawsuit then GPL will go to court and will end up invaliated in which case the whole Open source movement is screwed, and "real" software companies can get back to making money.
SCO is simply being sacrificed, obviously the board are doing quite nicely out of it and SCOs employees are probably being kept employed for a while longer.
So everyone's a winner!
unless the GPL stands up... but then SCO is still dead and the investors behind it are still making off with the cash they made while the stock price was high
Dlink do one .... DFE-570TX is it's code thing ...
probably pretty nice, I had a dlink pcmcia card for a while it was great! Cheap too
IBM might have put the crusoe Tpad on hold due to pressure from intel, like everyone else they have had problems with Intel chip supply, and I don't mean for their desktop stuff but for their multiprocessor NT boxes which I'm guessing they shift a suitably large number of and which are specced with the best CPUs. ... just some thoughts
Or it could be that either the Tpad wasn't going to make it out of the factories in time or even that all the other Crusoe based laptops are mainly aimed at non-corporate consumers who wanna watch DVDs, most of the reviews of the crusoe gear I've seen so far reckon it's bad at business apps and great at DvD playback, this would fit with the marketing issue IBM have
I was awaiting the crusoe thinkpad eagerly, I checked out the old celeron 240's and they were great, really well put together, like the 600's, however the i series thinkpads were really about the same quality as everyone else's laptop, so the IBM advantage sank to simply being black (sorry stealth grey) and badged
for me important laptop features are weight, battery life, ports and size. The 240 meets all these requirements, it's NOT a desktop replacement so CPU speed is not a big requirement and a crusoe 240 should be lighter with longer battery life etc.
Unfortunately the crusoe 240 was to be built by quanta so there might be quality issues there.
I for one aren't particularly sad to see the project "on hold" and Linus being on board didn't really influence me, although at the back of my mind was the knowledge that a crusoe box would support Linux really well!
we want more cool movies to come out so we have 2 choices: 1. go see cool movies, as much as possible, the bean counters will see large box office and ok a number of BAD clones of the original. Don't go and see any of these movies, maybe the head bean counter will be able to do the "make original movies dude" math. 2. become a billionaire, then setup a production company that only makes cool movies! MPAA ... money isn't really the issue to them, it is to 2600.
LCD is the way to go, and my next monitor will be flat, I'd like to upgrade but swallowing £500 (uk) for 15.1" screen is loads, never mind 1500+++ for a nice 18" screen, LCDs are apparently going to drop in price next summer due to over manufacture so maybe we'll see a drop to 17 & 19" crt price levels ... now that would get a sale from me...
I have thought of just going CRT but I don't play games and don't wanna lug around heavy monitors no more!