... there have been few improvements to vintage gear. Televisions, yes. But I challenge you to find a sub $1000 modern tuner that sounds better than a Leak Troughline with a Studio 12 decoder. I could go on, but I'm getting further offtopic.
What's really sad for geeks is that 16-bit, 44.1 or 48kHz sound (CDs and DAT) aren't a patch on the quality of a good gramophone record, let alone a 15ips analogue mastertape. Though i accept that convenience is occasionally a little more important than quality. - Derwen
I agree that academia is the best bet. Although many involved are writing their own history, an historian can (attemt to) stand outside the subject and give an objective view of developments. Although specialized history departments are slow to embrace very recent history, it will come.
In the meantime why not hedge your bets by following a coding or admin career, but offering history of computing classes at the local community college? I actually teach history of garden design in the evenings. You'd be surprised at how many people will sign up for a history class in an area in which they're vaguely interested. Derwen
Of course the other posters are right when they say that there is no story here (i. It's up to the SysAdmns; ii. of course media bias exists and the press are just beginning to get clued up on free software). The real gem is this quote:
"There's limited quality assurance in the open-source environment," says Rouland, "because open-source software is basically a bunch of peoples' hobby."
in a story posted minutes after this story about IBM, and its plans to open source something as useful as Websphere. Some of ISS's pages aren't opening right now (/. effect?) so I can't see if Mr. Rouland has shot himself in the other foot yet;-) Derwen
although I can't help wondering what they really think is in it for them?
are they seeing the light or is it just payback time?
They realize that they can't build a bigger cathedral than Mr. Gates & Co, so they're taking their customers out into the bazaar with them. - So Big Blue, got a clue;-) Derwen
To port Linux to another architecture it certainly helps to have all the spec's from the manufacturer. When these were obtained, Linux on the psion 5 was soon up and running.
Two of the many projects can be found here and here. However things have been moving more slowly with the new chips on the 5mx (see the mailing list).
You can of course connect your psion 3 or 5 to your Linux desktop, without supplanting your PDA's OS. Derwen
Dell:The question really is does Linux create new users or does it take users away from Sun or Microsoft. I'm not sure I'd know the answer. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure I really care, as long as they use Dell.
But it's nice to hear someone in his position recognize the "... powerful legitimate shift."
There's no reluctance:
hex is an international system, like 0-9 (decimal) - accepted regardless of local versions.
If I put the Welsh alphabet into Hex:... a, b, c, ch, d, dd, (e, f, ff....) not only would no non-Welsh speaker understand me, my computers wouldn't understand me ... so, no change there, then;-)
globalisation may be bad, but innternational standards facilitate communication & understanding.
Helixcode state in their white paper that "this is targeted at the average inexperienced use."
I agree with you that these tools are no substitute for knowing what you are doing, but they can help you get started. That isn't dumbing down.
These tools could save a lot of time for someone with a lot of workstations to configure (the link in the news item gives examples of this), and linux is supposed to be about choice.
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But I challenge you to find a sub $1000 modern tuner that sounds better than a Leak Troughline with a Studio 12 decoder.
I could go on, but I'm getting further offtopic.
What's really sad for geeks is that 16-bit, 44.1 or 48kHz sound (CDs and DAT) aren't a patch on the quality of a good gramophone record, let alone a 15ips analogue mastertape. Though i accept that convenience is occasionally a little more important than quality.
- Derwen
Although specialized history departments are slow to embrace very recent history, it will come.
In the meantime why not hedge your bets by following a coding or admin career, but offering history of computing classes at the local community college? I actually teach history of garden design in the evenings. You'd be surprised at how many people will sign up for a history class in an area in which they're vaguely interested.
Derwen
in a story posted minutes after this story about IBM, and its plans to open source something as useful as Websphere.
Some of ISS's pages aren't opening right now (/. effect?) so I can't see if Mr. Rouland has shot himself in the other foot yet
Derwen
They realize that they can't build a bigger cathedral than Mr. Gates & Co, so they're taking their customers out into the bazaar with them. ;-)
- So Big Blue, got a clue
Derwen
Two of the many projects can be found here and here.
However things have been moving more slowly with the new chips on the 5mx (see the mailing list).
You can of course connect your psion 3 or 5 to your Linux desktop, without supplanting your PDA's OS.
Derwen
Dell: The question really is does Linux create new users or does it take users away from Sun or Microsoft. I'm not sure I'd know the answer. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure I really care, as long as they use Dell.
But it's nice to hear someone in his position recognize the " ... powerful legitimate shift."
hex is an international system, like 0-9 (decimal) - accepted regardless of local versions. If I put the Welsh alphabet into Hex:
... so, no change there, then
globalisation may be bad, but innternational standards facilitate communication & understanding.
These tools could save a lot of time for someone with a lot of workstations to configure (the link in the news item gives examples of this), and linux is supposed to be about choice.
Derwen
OED 2nd edition gives "busses" and "buses" with the former appearing in older citations.
Derwen