This is a bit pathetic in my opinion. The changes are actually quite nice, I've actually stopped changing from the portal directly to gmail. I keep both open now because I like the new iGoogle so much more. The way things flow and work together is a lot better. The gadgets seem to fit together better, and having the "tabs" (what a horrid name) show different information is a lot better. Granted I have quite a few gadgets/tabs on my home page, and I have a rather high resolution, but regardless, I still think it's better, even on my old laptop which doesn't have that high of a resolution.
In general, the bitching and whining is over something that's A) free (no "ads" do not mean you're paying for it, only that you have the opportunity to), and B) is perfectly optional (you're certainly not forced there). If you don't like it, whatever, if the majority of people _do_ like it (and it appears they do), then I don't see how the change was a bad idea.
At the time when the company sponsoring the project and taking legal responsibility for the actions of the project feel comfortable that they are either safe from patent infringement or are willing to take on the patent's legal standing. NTFS is a clearly patented technology, as is mp3 and case history shows that judges have been willing to rule in favor of the patent holder.
RedHat holds the strings on the Fedora project because it's RedHat's project. They pay for the equipment, bandwidth and a large portion of the developement community. It's their prerogative to do as they see fit, much like the Debian leaders control that project and Linus and team control the standard kernel tree. If you don't like, there are other distros out there, use something else.
Polycom SoundPoint IP 500's retail for $279 and the going rate for them is $180-$190. They are at least as nice (usually nicer) than any NEC phones I've seen. They're multi-protocol and have all the same features as the Cisco 7940's.
The Neoware Capio Terminals support a large number of different kinds of sessions (RDP, X, SSH, VNC, etc) and have a good set of peripheral ports available. While the Sun Ray is a nice terminal, the Neoware has both serial and parallel ports, PS/2, USB, Sound and Video.
They also run linux, so if you have some weird peripheral, like I do, you can get the build environment for the system and build the kernel module for support. There may end up being a lot of odd things that come up that you can do on a normal PC that you find out just aren't possible on a thin client because there's no software running locally. Also they are priced very competitively to the Sun Ray without the need for a special server portion to operate them. While there is an application to manage the terminals, it doesn't need to be running for the terminals to work.
There is always a degree of uncertainty about the outcome of an appeal. Cases such as this one are almost always suspended to avoid repurcussions in the future. If they sentence wasn't suspended Microsoft would say that the verdict was decided before the case began.
I have Packet 8 service at home and love it. I have VoicePulse Connect at the office and that's more flexible. Packet 8 has failed once but it was a matter of minutes to end the outage.
If we put half this much effort into reforming the drivers license exams to include an idiot stick test, we could blow up a gas station a week and still be people ahead.
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Actually it appears you're bitten by the same bug as you would get bitten by in RedHat. The kernel-source package on an Athlon platform is your currently installed kernel rpm package or the latest one if there are multiples. However, the Makefile for the kernel has the kernel version modified from the one you are running. I forget what SuSE does to it but Red Hat add "custom" to the end of the kernel version that you've installed the source for.
We already charge sales tax on the consulting services that are the development of custom software. Since we're not selling them "software" we're selling them a service they don't get invoiced for the software. The service is already charged sales tax.
On the other hand, 10% can easily be hidden in the price of the product. Any good product worth it's price is worth it's price at 10% higher.
If the museum you are building this for can't spend $3500 on listening stations, find an exhibition management firm that can. I've done a lot of these things and if you want it running 3 monthes do it it right. Any time you do this "cheap" you are setting the exhibition up for disaster and the Museum up for a black eye.
Supermicro makes a great 1U system that's only 14" deep. it's pretty quiet and can take a celery or P4 chip. The 14" depth means you can get an enclosed networking rack and not have to listen to them.
This is a SCOANSI terminal emulation. The full ANSI terminal emulation in Linux is less than stellar.
As a side note I can help with both RW32 and Sychronics Counterpoint (a sales/inventory/customer management software package that integrates well with RW32).
ctooley@ntrc.net
Not to mention that it's usually someone in Upper Management that starts the whole mess to begin with. People that are listed in other people's address books are more likely to get these and people that are in upper management are in more outside address books than secretaries.
If I told the Board of Directors that the CEO opened an e-mail worm and according to the IT SOPs he should be fired, they had better already be searching for an excuse. If not, I can kiss all my work on the perfect placement of my coffee pot in my office goodbye.
Ok, so I can see where there might be useful complaints about some things, but the Netscape/Mozilla rewrite was definitely not one of them. Netscape was dumping their browser development, they decided to open source it, and what they were allowed to open (after all the licensed stuff was removed) was unusable. The reason that there was a rewrite was not just because they thought it could be done better, it was because the people that maintained the Netscape code weren't all working on the Mozilla codebase and the new people couldn't read the Netscape codebase. It was a horrid spaghetti mess.
As for the rewrite of Perl or Apache, those are the things that need to be done, to move on with our life. For instance Windows NT was a rewrite from DOS/Windows. Was that a bad idea? Was Windows ME really "good enough"? Give me a break.
There are many holes in this argument, in fact so many that I've decided to choose only one let let someone else worry about the rest.
But IBM cores market is WIndows and they want a single platform they can support. Now which will have they chose already?
IBM's core market is CERTAINLY not Windows. If you had said OS/390, or WebSphere, or DB2, I could almost agree, but even that is iffy. IBM's core markets are consulting services and hardware production. That hardware runs several OS's and many other things. IBM employees are given several default builds, some are Windows some are Linux.
Siiiiigh...when are you people going to realize it's about POPULATION DENSITY?
Would you mind explaining to me then why it is that in my mother's home town of 350 people in the boondocks of Rural Missouri, where the biggest town in 60 miles is less than 10,000 people, she can get 3 Mbit SDSL for half the price I can get ADSL in Austin, Texas (a supposed technology center)? Population density is not an issue at all. Thank your local ILEC monopoly for their laziness in upgrading their network, and inability to cooperate with CLEC's that are willing to upgrade. Verizon is second to none (though SBC holds a very close second) when it comes to poor customer service and poor attitude towards regulations that benifit customers.
The reason that this article is so helpful is because it proposes and economical way of taking the ILEC "out of the loop". When it comes to cross country back haul fiber there are suprisingly more players than their are in local loop, even though the infrastructure costs would seem to make you think otherwise. Competition is driving down the cost of large scale pipes rapidly and this would make them drop even faster.
The biggest problem I see is that this just adds one for thing for our City government to do poorly. Have you driven on your city streets lately?:)
Actually that's not true. The reason that proprietary kernel modules are OK is because Linus says they are. It's his special stipulation that allows this and is not allowed the GPL even it's tolerated.
Wow, did they really just say what I thought they said? Lacking an OS? How could HP be lacking an OS for a processor (Itanium) it virtually built? How could IBM's usage of Linux be taken as anything but having an OS for those platforms.
What a load.
Eslambolchi did not discuss software or hardware programs or partners that would be involved in the network. However, on Tuesday Murray Hill, New Jersey-based Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with AT&T to provide advanced optical technology for its network.
Can you say shocker? AT&T buying hardware from BELL LABS^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HLUCENT. Whodathunkit?
Next we'll here some crazy thing like Slashdot is doing advertising for a product at Thinkgeek.
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No, if Star Trek taught us anything, it's that even space travelling people in the midst of a space war haven't learned the value of a seat belt.
In general, the bitching and whining is over something that's A) free (no "ads" do not mean you're paying for it, only that you have the opportunity to), and B) is perfectly optional (you're certainly not forced there). If you don't like it, whatever, if the majority of people _do_ like it (and it appears they do), then I don't see how the change was a bad idea.
At the time when the company sponsoring the project and taking legal responsibility for the actions of the project feel comfortable that they are either safe from patent infringement or are willing to take on the patent's legal standing. NTFS is a clearly patented technology, as is mp3 and case history shows that judges have been willing to rule in favor of the patent holder.
RedHat holds the strings on the Fedora project because it's RedHat's project. They pay for the equipment, bandwidth and a large portion of the developement community. It's their prerogative to do as they see fit, much like the Debian leaders control that project and Linus and team control the standard kernel tree. If you don't like, there are other distros out there, use something else.
UnWired Buyer does something like this for eBay already. It doesn't use Skype, but it does call you to let you have interactive bidding on auctions.
Polycom SoundPoint IP 500's retail for $279 and the going rate for them is $180-$190. They are at least as nice (usually nicer) than any NEC phones I've seen. They're multi-protocol and have all the same features as the Cisco 7940's.
5MB? As in one small song. One character brings marvel to trash.
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The Neoware Capio Terminals support a large number of different kinds of sessions (RDP, X, SSH, VNC, etc) and have a good set of peripheral ports available. While the Sun Ray is a nice terminal, the Neoware has both serial and parallel ports, PS/2, USB, Sound and Video.
They also run linux, so if you have some weird peripheral, like I do, you can get the build environment for the system and build the kernel module for support. There may end up being a lot of odd things that come up that you can do on a normal PC that you find out just aren't possible on a thin client because there's no software running locally. Also they are priced very competitively to the Sun Ray without the need for a special server portion to operate them. While there is an application to manage the terminals, it doesn't need to be running for the terminals to work.
There is always a degree of uncertainty about the outcome of an appeal. Cases such as this one are almost always suspended to avoid repurcussions in the future. If they sentence wasn't suspended Microsoft would say that the verdict was decided before the case began.
I have Packet 8 service at home and love it. I have VoicePulse Connect at the office and that's more flexible. Packet 8 has failed once but it was a matter of minutes to end the outage.
There are 40,000+ people killed on the highways every yearhttp://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/announce/press/ pressdisplay.cfm?year=2002&filename=pr55-02.ht ml and we're worried about changing the rules of pumping gas because 160 or so morons couldn't pump gas without setting themselves on fire.
If we put half this much effort into reforming the drivers license exams to include an idiot stick test, we could blow up a gas station a week and still be people ahead.
Actually it appears you're bitten by the same bug as you would get bitten by in RedHat. The kernel-source package on an Athlon platform is your currently installed kernel rpm package or the latest one if there are multiples. However, the Makefile for the kernel has the kernel version modified from the one you are running. I forget what SuSE does to it but Red Hat add "custom" to the end of the kernel version that you've installed the source for.
Hope that helps.
We already charge sales tax on the consulting services that are the development of custom software. Since we're not selling them "software" we're selling them a service they don't get invoiced for the software. The service is already charged sales tax.
On the other hand, 10% can easily be hidden in the price of the product. Any good product worth it's price is worth it's price at 10% higher.
If the museum you are building this for can't spend $3500 on listening stations, find an exhibition management firm that can. I've done a lot of these things and if you want it running 3 monthes do it it right. Any time you do this "cheap" you are setting the exhibition up for disaster and the Museum up for a black eye.
Supermicro makes a great 1U system that's only 14" deep. it's pretty quiet and can take a celery or P4 chip. The 14" depth means you can get an enclosed networking rack and not have to listen to them.
This is a SCOANSI terminal emulation. The full ANSI terminal emulation in Linux is less than stellar. As a side note I can help with both RW32 and Sychronics Counterpoint (a sales/inventory/customer management software package that integrates well with RW32). ctooley@ntrc.net
Not to mention that it's usually someone in Upper Management that starts the whole mess to begin with. People that are listed in other people's address books are more likely to get these and people that are in upper management are in more outside address books than secretaries.
If I told the Board of Directors that the CEO opened an e-mail worm and according to the IT SOPs he should be fired, they had better already be searching for an excuse. If not, I can kiss all my work on the perfect placement of my coffee pot in my office goodbye.
Ok, so I can see where there might be useful complaints about some things, but the Netscape/Mozilla rewrite was definitely not one of them. Netscape was dumping their browser development, they decided to open source it, and what they were allowed to open (after all the licensed stuff was removed) was unusable. The reason that there was a rewrite was not just because they thought it could be done better, it was because the people that maintained the Netscape code weren't all working on the Mozilla codebase and the new people couldn't read the Netscape codebase. It was a horrid spaghetti mess.
As for the rewrite of Perl or Apache, those are the things that need to be done, to move on with our life. For instance Windows NT was a rewrite from DOS/Windows. Was that a bad idea? Was Windows ME really "good enough"? Give me a break.
There are many holes in this argument, in fact so many that I've decided to choose only one let let someone else worry about the rest. But IBM cores market is WIndows and they want a single platform they can support. Now which will have they chose already? IBM's core market is CERTAINLY not Windows. If you had said OS/390, or WebSphere, or DB2, I could almost agree, but even that is iffy. IBM's core markets are consulting services and hardware production. That hardware runs several OS's and many other things. IBM employees are given several default builds, some are Windows some are Linux.
You mean like:
SIP Phone
or snom
or Grandstream
or Pulver
and that's just naming a few.
Siiiiigh...when are you people going to realize it's about POPULATION DENSITY?
:)
Would you mind explaining to me then why it is that in my mother's home town of 350 people in the boondocks of Rural Missouri, where the biggest town in 60 miles is less than 10,000 people, she can get 3 Mbit SDSL for half the price I can get ADSL in Austin, Texas (a supposed technology center)? Population density is not an issue at all. Thank your local ILEC monopoly for their laziness in upgrading their network, and inability to cooperate with CLEC's that are willing to upgrade. Verizon is second to none (though SBC holds a very close second) when it comes to poor customer service and poor attitude towards regulations that benifit customers.
The reason that this article is so helpful is because it proposes and economical way of taking the ILEC "out of the loop". When it comes to cross country back haul fiber there are suprisingly more players than their are in local loop, even though the infrastructure costs would seem to make you think otherwise. Competition is driving down the cost of large scale pipes rapidly and this would make them drop even faster.
The biggest problem I see is that this just adds one for thing for our City government to do poorly. Have you driven on your city streets lately?
Actually that's not true. The reason that proprietary kernel modules are OK is because Linus says they are. It's his special stipulation that allows this and is not allowed the GPL even it's tolerated.
Wow, did they really just say what I thought they said? Lacking an OS? How could HP be lacking an OS for a processor (Itanium) it virtually built? How could IBM's usage of Linux be taken as anything but having an OS for those platforms. What a load.
Has she ever given any RedHat product a good review? I'll bet that a lifelong Mac user gives Windows bad reviews too.
Eslambolchi did not discuss software or hardware programs or partners that would be involved in the network. However, on Tuesday Murray Hill, New Jersey-based Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with AT&T to provide advanced optical technology for its network.
Can you say shocker? AT&T buying hardware from BELL LABS^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HLUCENT. Whodathunkit?
Next we'll here some crazy thing like Slashdot is doing advertising for a product at Thinkgeek.