From the article: When does the Altnet system become active, and what should people expect from it?
We're anticipating that in the next four to six weeks, the working components of the Altnet system will be activated or become active...So we expect between the next 60 to 90 days Altnet will begin making contact with the end users. .
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And then it will start to learn.
5 days later it will be fully conscious...
I'd like to see books that come out as dead-tree but also have a CD in the back that has a searchable, cross platform, Copy N Pastable (For long code examples n such), non PDF, version of the book.
My question would be, why would you want to have a server product pre-installed? How many people out there trust a vendor far enough to run a pre-installed version of a server product?
Hell, my boxes don't even come built, let alone have a NOS pre-installed. (It's a fun day to have 10 to 15 boxes come in via UPS and get to sit down and put together a new server. I think of it as one of the perks to my job.)
I put em together, test em for a couple of weeks, install and configure the NOS, then roll them out.
Fairly mission critical application (Jail Management Software). Major bug in said software that requires a new client on most all of the client PCs.
(Don't get me started with on the fly code fixes on a production system. Is this the norm now? Most vendors I am dealing with do this and I expect that they end up with custom code for each customer site to maintain. Not good.)
Put new client on a test desktop and do a help, about. Hmm... Vendor didn't upgrade the version number (Major #, minor #, a,b,c nothing).
Call vendor, say this is unacceptable, how can we easily tell. Vendor tells us that they arn't going to change it and for us to check the date and time stamp on the executable. Yeh, right. Just what I want to talk my users through.
Pull up file manager... Go here, look at this... Talk about a major mess waiting to happen.
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http://swaret.xbone.be/
If a DB was integrated into the OS as the preferred method of storing data...
Isn't that what Microsoft calls the Registry?
From the article:
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When does the Altnet system become active, and what should people expect from it?
We're anticipating that in the next four to six weeks, the working components of the Altnet system will be activated or become active...So we expect between the next 60 to 90 days Altnet will begin making contact with the end users.
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And then it will start to learn.
5 days later it will be fully conscious...
Hmm, This seems vaguely familiar.
-eddy
Hmmm... Location specific SPAM and popup windows.
'Hello consumer! we noticed you are near McDonalds on 7th and main. Here is a 25 cents off of a Big Mac and Coke coupon!'
-eddy
I'd like to see books that come out as dead-tree but also have a CD in the back that has a searchable, cross platform, Copy N Pastable (For long code examples n such), non PDF, version of the book.
-eddy
`Altman said Computer and Information Services reported the theft of ethernet March 2 at 2:15 a.m.`
2:15 AM? I guess the question might be what were they doing that made someone come in at 2:15AM and look into it?
Oh well, I guess it could of be worst, they could of been running Token Ring. I hear theft of token is punishable by 10 lashes with a cane.
-eddy
Re: The following are some toys I would enjoy.
You forgot the BFG9000 and pocket version of global thermonuclear war. (Both being the only proper way to `squish a geometric form`.)
-eddy
My question would be, why would you want to have a server product pre-installed? How many people out there trust a vendor far enough to run a pre-installed version of a server product?
Hell, my boxes don't even come built, let alone have a NOS pre-installed. (It's a fun day to have 10 to 15 boxes come in via UPS and get to sit down and put together a new server. I think of it as one of the perks to my job.)
I put em together, test em for a couple of weeks, install and configure the NOS, then roll them out.
Am I just to paranoid and untrusting or ???
-eddy
Picture this...
Fairly mission critical application (Jail Management Software). Major bug in said software that requires a new client on most all of the client PCs.
(Don't get me started with on the fly code fixes on a production system. Is this the norm now? Most vendors I am dealing with do this and I expect that they end up with custom code for each customer site to maintain. Not good.)
Put new client on a test desktop and do a help, about. Hmm... Vendor didn't upgrade the version number (Major #, minor #, a,b,c nothing).
Call vendor, say this is unacceptable, how can we easily tell. Vendor tells us that they arn't going to change it and for us to check the date and time stamp on the executable. Yeh, right. Just what I want to talk my users through.
Pull up file manager... Go here, look at this... Talk about a major mess waiting to happen.
-eddy
Of course they have dropped the issue. Christmas is over.
They took a shot, lost big, and now are trying to `make nice` for the public because they didn't expect such an outcry.
Hopefully they have learned. You can't bully the small guy on the Internet. It will not be tolerated.
-eddy
http://www.biomorph-desk.com/
gives
500 Server Error
The hard transfer limit for this user has been reached
Anybody mirror this puppy?
-eddy
The most interesting thing to me is...
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.fox.com
seems to show that www.fox.com is running Netscape-Enterprise/2.01 on DIGITAL UNIX?
But when I go there from Netscape in Linux I get...
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Unfortunately, you are unable to access FOX.com. You have been
denied access for one or both of the following reasons:
You are using a browser below version 3. We recommend upgrading to
version 4 or higher with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.0.
You are running on a platform other than a PC or a Macintosh. Unless you run
on one of these platforms, you will be unable to access FOX.com.
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If true, it truely is a sad day...
-eddy