It only "absorbs envy beams" from the kind of losers who give that much of a damn what their computer looks like. So it's a transparent case. Big deal. You'd think it was a sports car the way Taco was drooling over it. Not that sports car fetishists are any better, mind you.
Unfortunately, it turns out that he's like one of those annoying five-year-olds who thinks a joke gets funnier if you repeat it over and over again. He's been telling this joke for about 14 years now.
It's getting like Red China around here these days. We can't let shit like this happen! There ought to be protests in the streets until things change for the better. We've got rights!
Earthlink may look good today, but don't think their interests are entirely on your side. In the past, they have privately expressed interest in collecting all sorts of personal data on their users and their users' use of the internet (what web sites you visit, what newsgroups you read and post to, who you exchange email with). My guess at the time (I was working for a software vendor whose product Earthlink was interested in, which they wanted modified to collect this data) was that they wanted to invade everyone's privacy for purely commercial reasons, to resell the information to direct marketers. Keep this in mind before you start thinking that Earthlink is all of a sudden this great defender of privacy.
No, Windows 98 doesn't have significantly greater Unicode support than Windows 95. Nor, as far as I know, does the forthcoming "Windows Millenium Edition" (Windows Me -- god, what a name). You can safely think of Windows 98 as just Windows 95 Second Edition (or Fourth, if you count 95 OSR1 and OSR2 as Second and Third).
No, Windows 98 doesn't have significantly greater Unicode support than Windows 95. Nor, as far as I know, does the forthcoming "Windows Millenium Edition" (Windows Me -- god, what a name). You can safely think of Windows 98 as just Windows 95 Second Edition (or Fourth, if you count 95 OSR1 and OSR2 as Second and Third).
No, Windows 98 doesn't have significantly greater Unicode support than Windows 95. Nor, as far as I know, does the forthcoming "Windows Millenium Edition" (Windows Me -- god, what a name). You can safely think of Windows 98 as just Windows 95 Second Edition (or Fourth, if you count 95 OSR1 and OSR2 as Second and Third).
To say that Windows 9x supports Unicode "in a fragmented manner" is putting it mildly. Windows 9x supports converting Unicode to/from any installed ANSI codepage, but almost nothing else. 99% of the Win32 APIs in Win9x do NOT support Unicode strings, whereas in NT and W2000, almost all do.
More generally, how one handles Unicode depends on what form of Unicode one wants to support. There are at least three basic varieties. MS Windows supports only UCS-2, in which all characters are two bytes wide. UTF-8 (variable-length characters) is supported only by the URL library. UCS-4 (all characters four bytes wide) is not supported at all. (There is also a variety called UTF-16 which I don't recall the details of. I think it's like UTF-8, but with 16-bit words instead of 8-bit bytes making up the individual components of each variable-length character.) String processing in variable length character sets is a pain, though it's easier in UTF-* than it is in MBCS because Unicode guarantees that the ranges of lead and trail bytes don't overlap.
Well, I wouldn't use a Windows 2k box as a router simply because I wouldn't have a Windows 2k box in the house. You can certainly use a Linux box as a router. I use a Pentium 90 running Linux 2.2 as my network router, DSL gateway/firewall, DHCP/DNS/email server and it works really well.
Well, more products ought to move to GPL. It is simply a better license for truly free-as-in-speech software. I suppose if you don't mind having your code appropriated for non-free use, the BSD license isn't too bad, but most of the others are severely defective, especially the Artistic license with all its sloppy loopholes.
These boards ought to be able to outperform a cheap Pentium with one clock cycle tied behind its back. ARMLinux, though still limited to kernel 2.0, is fine. The combination of these boards and ARMLinux should be perfectly suitable to inexpensive servers or network gateway machines.
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It only "absorbs envy beams" from the kind of losers who give that much of a damn what their computer looks like. So it's a transparent case. Big deal. You'd think it was a sports car the way Taco was drooling over it. Not that sports car fetishists are any better, mind you.
Unfortunately, it turns out that he's like one of those annoying five-year-olds who thinks a joke gets funnier if you repeat it over and over again. He's been telling this joke for about 14 years now.
It's getting like Red China around here these days. We can't let shit like this happen! There ought to be protests in the streets until things change for the better. We've got rights!
Earthlink may look good today, but don't think their interests are entirely on your side. In the past, they have privately expressed interest in collecting all sorts of personal data on their users and their users' use of the internet (what web sites you visit, what newsgroups you read and post to, who you exchange email with). My guess at the time (I was working for a software vendor whose product Earthlink was interested in, which they wanted modified to collect this data) was that they wanted to invade everyone's privacy for purely commercial reasons, to resell the information to direct marketers. Keep this in mind before you start thinking that Earthlink is all of a sudden this great defender of privacy.
No, Windows 98 doesn't have significantly greater Unicode support than Windows 95. Nor, as far as I know, does the forthcoming "Windows Millenium Edition" (Windows Me -- god, what a name). You can safely think of Windows 98 as just Windows 95 Second Edition (or Fourth, if you count 95 OSR1 and OSR2 as Second and Third).
No, Windows 98 doesn't have significantly greater Unicode support than Windows 95. Nor, as far as I know, does the forthcoming "Windows Millenium Edition" (Windows Me -- god, what a name). You can safely think of Windows 98 as just Windows 95 Second Edition (or Fourth, if you count 95 OSR1 and OSR2 as Second and Third).
No, Windows 98 doesn't have significantly greater Unicode support than Windows 95. Nor, as far as I know, does the forthcoming "Windows Millenium Edition" (Windows Me -- god, what a name). You can safely think of Windows 98 as just Windows 95 Second Edition (or Fourth, if you count 95 OSR1 and OSR2 as Second and Third).
More generally, how one handles Unicode depends on what form of Unicode one wants to support. There are at least three basic varieties. MS Windows supports only UCS-2, in which all characters are two bytes wide. UTF-8 (variable-length characters) is supported only by the URL library. UCS-4 (all characters four bytes wide) is not supported at all. (There is also a variety called UTF-16 which I don't recall the details of. I think it's like UTF-8, but with 16-bit words instead of 8-bit bytes making up the individual components of each variable-length character.) String processing in variable length character sets is a pain, though it's easier in UTF-* than it is in MBCS because Unicode guarantees that the ranges of lead and trail bytes don't overlap.
Well, I wouldn't use a Windows 2k box as a router simply because I wouldn't have a Windows 2k box in the house. You can certainly use a Linux box as a router. I use a Pentium 90 running Linux 2.2 as my network router, DSL gateway/firewall, DHCP/DNS/email server and it works really well.
Well, more products ought to move to GPL. It is simply a better license for truly free-as-in-speech software. I suppose if you don't mind having your code appropriated for non-free use, the BSD license isn't too bad, but most of the others are severely defective, especially the Artistic license with all its sloppy loopholes.
Oh, and of course these ARM-based boards can't run Windows, which could be considered (heh) a good thing...
These boards ought to be able to outperform a cheap Pentium with one clock cycle tied behind its back. ARMLinux, though still limited to kernel 2.0, is fine. The combination of these boards and ARMLinux should be perfectly suitable to inexpensive servers or network gateway machines.