Doesn't sound like my kind of club when this disclaimer is on the front page.
"UPDATE! Yes, it's true! The dress code is HISTORY at Plum -- You CAN wear bandanas, skull caps, jerseys, caps, anything! Just keep it stylish and clean.
And guess what - you DON'T NEED TO WEAR A BULLET PROOF VEST... (quoted from Fosters about an event at the competition, 360 nightclub, Saturday Oct 11)... "a gun had been fired on the property"... "He fired one round"... You don't need to worry about gun fights at Plum Crazy! People come to Plum to dance and have fun, not to get involved in attempted first degree assault and gun shootings! "
Don't buy our competition, we will have something better in 2-3 years, we promise! Here is a bunch of FUD we spread to make you think we are cool and they are not.
Marketing == Mind Control. I just find it humerous we complain to no end about microsoft's strategies when the blessed Sony Corporation as well as many others use the same tactics.
Longhorn actually has the potential to be great. Windows XP was a huge leap in products for a strategy and marketing perspective. (although still half assed for the business needs)
The only gripe i have, is the functionality in Media Center Edition should be an add-on or functionality in the base piece of XP instead of fragmenting out the purpose of a pc into the vertical markets microsoft is trying to keep around. (But even redhat is splitting home/workstation/enterprise editions)
Just one of the many reasons i prefer solaris. Same OS on an Ultra 5 that you run on an E10k. NO BS about features, no BS about promises and an OS that is tried and true.
I would love to use mac osx, but i'm not big on the quarterly/yearly 130.00 upgrades. Sorry apple.
You have to be kidding right? Dump Veritas? What are you smoking? Veritas isn't just a Volume Manager/Disksuite it is a supported/planned and critical piece of your infrastructure! You rely on Veritas because you know it is tried, true and recoverable. The excellent relation of Sun and Veritas is a reason to use the platform just like Veritas on HPUX and other platforms. Your not just paying for the software, your paying for the support and paying for the mission critical needs that demand that solution. Veritas is an EXCELLENT package and nothing in linux comes close to the Veritas & Sun solutions on certified hardware. (And if you compare the linux solutions on linux certified systems with the same performance, manageability and support you get from sun i would like to see ONE vendor that can compare!)
I also don't believe you understand the usefullness of Sun (non linux)solutions. You keep on correlating the costs to acquisition. In the real world the hardware/software costs don't mean squat. Any large IT business knows that your biggest cost is employees, software, licensing, support and contractors.
For one, i can spend 32,000 on a 4 way 64 bit cpu machine with 8 gigs of memory, 500gb diskspace and have Hotswappable CPU's, a VASTLY supperior backplane, Vastly superior scalability in growth and a proven reliable architecture. You Can't buy ANY linux solution/Wintel solution that comes close to the Solaris/RS6000/HPUX based systems out there. As i've stated before there is only ONE vendor that offers a machine feature comparison to suns LOW END/MID RANGE v880's and it doesn't come close in comparison to power. For example the only linux enabled hot swappable cpu/backplane/intel solution is built on 4 700 mhz pentium 3 processors and costs 24,000 for the base system. My Quad 1.2ghz v880 out of the box doesn't require anything proprietary, but on the linux solution you have to run the vendors version of linux, the vendors version of the apps compiled and can only use the vendors approved addons. Sure sun is only one vendor, but solaris is solaris. There isn't a mix match of versions, releases or there isn't a version of solaris for my v880 that doesn't work on my e10k. I can grow with a common platform to support from 1 user to 65000+ users and even cluster to support from that point on.
You have to get your mindset away from free/cheap = better. You have to realize that in the business world the costs for platforms that are tried and true is expected and also minimal compared to the costs to keep it running.
I would rather run my 2 terrabyte financial application on a slower sun server because of the reliability, the proven architecture and HA features. You have to remember that in my case 5 minutes of downtime costs $137,000. Suddenly a $3,000 Veritas volume management solution and a $100,000 hardware platform not only is justifyable but almost even insufficient in itself if you break out the cost vs requirements ratio.
I can make my 3 Terrabyte Clarrion System, my Sun V880 Systems, my Sun 280/240r webservers and my solaris management workstations run for months at a time in pure harmony. The fact that NOTHING CHANGES ON A WHIM IS A GODSEND!! The stability, and slowness by which things change is the reason why businesses rely on such as the costs are far from just your hardware/os purchase price.
Corporate support is absolute crap. We buy 2500 pc's every 2 years and they can't get that right even though its a 2+ million dollar deal!
Not to mention they can't re-brand anything and sell it correctly. We bought a 1 terrabyte clarrion storage system form them and went directly with EMC for another cabinet and 2 more terrabytes of space and had alot less headaches and hassles.
It appears dell no longer has any talent, and what they do have is stuck on location and not answering the phones!
Not to worry, compaq/hp is in a similar boat and they're work hard to get rid of them as well!
The IT world in general blows. We let microsoft ship buggy software, we pay oracle millions to fix stuff that never worked to begin with, we buy overly priced purple nurples from dell and we work day in and day out to fix sh*t that shouldn't need fixing all because alot of the time the right people are not in the right place doing the job correctly the first time.
Its all about MONEY and not a product anymore.
Whatever happened to selling pride, selling a service and selling quality. Hell, the only company i see selling that image is Chevy and even they're in such a crunch they don't push it like they used to.
oh well.
Dell sucks, end of story. If they can't support an over priced 1500.00 pc how the hell are they going to support download music and 99.00 to 199.00 devices to the masses?
Sun sells to corporations. Sun doesn't really care about someone running solaris or linux on a home pc at this point.
They want a corporate network with thousands of pc's networked off sun "big iron".
To point out something. This month NEC released the first TRUELY "hot swappable" linux server. Its an OLD Quad P3 800mhz for nearly $26,000 that runs a hacked version of linux on a hacked kernel to support the features NEC needed.
On the other hand i can get a Quad CPU Sun V880 with 8 gigs of memory, redundant everything and run solaris 8, solaris 9 and every solaris app off the shelf for about 6 grand more. Were talking a 900 to 1000mhz Ultra Sparc 64bit CPU with 8 megs e-cache vs a pentium 3. With solaris 9 i can swap out CPU boards on a live system, i have all the big apps i need and not locked into a particular vendor. Should i'm locked into SUN, but i'm not locked into only running sun software. If you buy an HA linux solution today you most likely have to work with that vendor to get the software certified.
Do the math. For corporations that NEED mission critical use of UNIX servers, linux is NOT the cheapest solution when you figure in your total costs.
I pay 99.00 for solaris, and thats just the media. i can download the sparc iso's for free, but i like have media locked in cabinets for boot disks if necessary.
Coming from a sysadmin trying to manage an infrastructure, a turn-key solution like this from sun is a HUGE bargain.
We pay more in PER USER fees for a standard Application server environment than what Sun wants for the entire "shebang".
For small businesses who focus on unix solutions i couldn't imagine a better way to "enterprise" your business.
Pushing this will push java, will push sun hardware, will push sun certified solutions, will push logo branding, will push certifications and that will push the company forward.
PS, I do have a few V880's, 280r's, Netra X1's, V240's and lots of other sun equipment. So this is good news:)
Either way, if you have an Xbox with a valid "bios" it will be udpated.
Remember, the BIOS is a boot loader, and its not necessarily the BIOS being udpated/changed. Sure they may be extending the bios functionality, but there are even PC's these days with agents to update your bios. As with the XBox you have to enable Xboxlive and agree to the TOS that you allow this. With your PC you have to enable live update and accept the TOS of the live updated service.
If you BUY a game and it updates your xbox you agreed to the terms of the game when you bought it.
Hell, most games for PC still require you to go update drivers, download directx or install some kind of patch for it to work correctly and alot will do that for you as well. Microsoft has just taken the guess work out of you having to fuss with it in the first place.
For those of you who don't OWN an xbox and just like to bitch about pointless things, the update actually adds some very nice features above and beyond what we dreamed of having with the 1st gen xbox.
Infact with the updates, the xbox has surpassed my pc in every aspect. Sure it isn't as much "Computing" power but it isn't a computer. Get that The xbox is NOT a computer it is a Video Game System . My xbox now has voice chat, and it is included with live, my xbox has superb online gaming, included with live. I pay a flat rate to get the features that are downloaded of which 99% of them are features XBOX users have requested
So please, if you hate microsoft we're all better off if you dont touch an xbox. You have your reasons whatever they are, and xbox owners have there reasons.
I like it, i wouldn't trade my xbox for anything else out there. I'm glad i don't have to manually install crap, i'm glad i just plug-n-play, i'm glad i get the new features that I request and that I participated in the beta testing of. I'm glad Microsoft has finally made a console that grows with the times and allows gamers to do what they wan't to do. Play GAMES
I didn't buy my xbox to run linux. Neither did the other 7-8 million owners out there.
I've havn't had a microsoft patch mess up anything on my system since Windows NT 4.0 SP1. SP3A and beyond have had no issues up through xp and windows 2003 server.
The XBox is updated IF and ONLY IF you are connected to the network and turn on your xbox with a "live aware" game. The xbox doesn't just randomly dial out and update.
BUT if you stick a game it that requires the update, the game will either install it from CD or if you have live configured download the latest dashboard for you.
whats wrong with that? WHen you signup for live most people consider this a FEATURE, especially since the dashboard updates added functionality over above and beyond what any other console can or will do within the next 2-3 years.
Hosting 300 postnuke sites on a xeon system will keep that CPU burnin through cycles!
Plus hosting is many other things included Mailscanner running f-prot virus scanning & SpamCop checking on every inbound/outbound mail, pop3, ftp, httpd/https processes.
speaking of https.. are those accelerator cards worth it? what a hog on cpu!
I loved OS/2 like no other os. OS/2 truely let me choose what i want out of my os.
I could rip the gui off and install a 3rd party shell manager, i could install a command line shell/task switcher, i could extend the desktop, i could replace system objects and i could use modular file systems and much much more. It was just a "theme" or hack, it was extending the framework.. something unique even to this day!
Sure back in the 2.0 and 2.11 days running Windows Apps was an extra bonus, but i didn't bother with it other then saying "cool".
I was too busy bugging Mustang software to port wildcat! pro over, after they failed i jumped ship to PcBoard 15 and then eventually adopted synchronet all of which ran beautifully under OS/2 and still let me play my Sierra Games, surf the web and listen to my S3M's, MOD's and watch my future crew demos and chat online..
OS/2 Replaced DESQview 386 & Qemm as a stable and very nice MULTITASKING os. I was sure as hell glad when i finally got a CDROM as pushing floppies during install sucked ass. I had to upgrade to 16 megs of memory, but back then that was alot cheaper then pilling up multiple computers and running netware!!
But the golden era started when OS/2 Connect Came out. OS/2 connect taught me what networking was about. OS/2 connect gave me my first run into the world of TCP/IP, Netbios, and netware (had to install the OS/2 netware client to join up with my other machines for playing Doom!) I was able to run my BBS and have a 19.2 modem connection to the internet and it all worked through the magic SIO comm driver replacements. Runnning DOS doors, IRC chats, Usenet gateways and UUCP feeds, i was the baddest 15 year old running an BBS/ISP.
Not to mention i was a part of TeamOS/2, getting free shirts, visiting conferences and getting published in books! Remember those OS/2 unleashed books? I'm there:)
Everything started to peak at OS/2 warp 3.0.. for a while there was even 3rd party software at the store. Object desktop was showing the power of object oriented desktop and the gui/workplace shell and days were looking good.
Then came... OS/2 Warp 4.0 with its 179.00+ upgrade and 299.00 base fee.. NT 4.0 was now out and pushing for...uhm.. FREE on any PC you bought that day.. basically putting the nail in the coffin.
I ran OS/2 warp 4.0 for a while longer and then switched to Linux and NT myself.. Linux was finally coming of age and after being the first BBS in houston to offer linux for download i (12 floppies mang) i chose to convert myself.
BBS Scene died, had to spend more time in school, got a job and ended up working my way up through the internet world and now work as an oracle guru..
funny how OS/2 started it all for me. Nice to see some of that still alive. Visit OS2.org and say high! There is even a port of Wine to run windows apps emulated/native on OS/2 and much much more..
amazingly, driver support is still doing well. IBM *STILL* sells OS/2.. its just called "WorkPlace OS" now.
There is spam because the system is insecure. Force AUTH based SMTP and use SSL.
Use RBL's, SpamCop and Spews to blacklist people who don't want to grow up and be secure! Big ISP's should do this, Cable & DSL providers should do this.
With wireless tech i can login to anyways network and spam away as long as i'm behind an IP address allowed by there servers.
Its LONG overdue! Use our preventative technologies to enforce some decisions for the better of the network, not the perogatives of a select few!!!!!
Looking for part time help. College students, laid off workers or whatnot. Email your resume & requirements to byron at turboweb dot net.
Small Web hosting company that IS profitable, IS growing, doesn't have HUGE expenses and is self suffecient (no outside loans, no debt load, no foreign investors to decide policy).
Seeking people for:
Sales - Selling Hosting, Dedicated servers and custom development work.
Java/JSP/Servlet developer. Must have developer experience as well as understand JVM's and be able to work with Oracle 9iAS, JBoss, Tomcat and Web Sphere. Struts Knowledge requried. - Most projects are for extended Compiere CRM and building customer projects as well as in house code.
Support Staff - Mainly a "CSR" type position. Tech support is handled throught trouble ticket system and need a person who is customer oriented, who can answer questions and help solve issues as well as be able to make a sale, answer general hosting sales questions and be a general Customer Service Rep.
All a salaried/Hourly positions. Sales associates earn commissions & salary.
Archive.org goes back to 1996, not sure HOW far back in 1996 but probably far enough to provide archived links of many wesbites containing the type of content/links/navigation as patented.
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Doesn't sound like my kind of club when this disclaimer is on the front page.
... "He fired one round" ... You don't need to worry about gun fights at Plum Crazy! People come to Plum to dance and have fun, not to get involved in attempted first degree assault and gun shootings!
:)
"UPDATE! Yes, it's true! The dress code is HISTORY at Plum -- You CAN wear bandanas, skull caps, jerseys, caps, anything! Just keep it stylish and clean.
And guess what - you DON'T NEED TO WEAR A BULLET PROOF VEST... (quoted from Fosters about an event at the competition, 360 nightclub, Saturday Oct 11)... "a gun had been fired on the property"
"
From Spam to Thugs.. who woulda thunk it
uhm, i can backup 400gb to an LTO tape. So you would essentialy need Super DLT or LTO/LTO2 to do this.
(It would probably cost you as much as 10 of these drives to have an LTO/SuperDLT solution/tapes)
So just by 2 of these and mirror them and offload to tape your mission critical stuff.
No longer with the worlds largest bloatware not fit on a single drive!
(Anyone who manages a financials 11i applications knows what i'm talking about)
BTW, anyone know what this is useable formatted ext2 or ntfs?
Don't buy our competition, we will have something better in 2-3 years, we promise! Here is a bunch of FUD we spread to make you think we are cool and they are not.
Marketing == Mind Control. I just find it humerous we complain to no end about microsoft's strategies when the blessed Sony Corporation as well as many others use the same tactics.
Longhorn actually has the potential to be great. Windows XP was a huge leap in products for a strategy and marketing perspective. (although still half assed for the business needs)
The only gripe i have, is the functionality in Media Center Edition should be an add-on or functionality in the base piece of XP instead of fragmenting out the purpose of a pc into the vertical markets microsoft is trying to keep around. (But even redhat is splitting home/workstation/enterprise editions)
Just one of the many reasons i prefer solaris. Same OS on an Ultra 5 that you run on an E10k. NO BS about features, no BS about promises and an OS that is tried and true.
I would love to use mac osx, but i'm not big on the quarterly/yearly 130.00 upgrades. Sorry apple.
You have to be kidding right? Dump Veritas? What are you smoking? Veritas isn't just a Volume Manager/Disksuite it is a supported/planned and critical piece of your infrastructure! You rely on Veritas because you know it is tried, true and recoverable. The excellent relation of Sun and Veritas is a reason to use the platform just like Veritas on HPUX and other platforms. Your not just paying for the software, your paying for the support and paying for the mission critical needs that demand that solution. Veritas is an EXCELLENT package and nothing in linux comes close to the Veritas & Sun solutions on certified hardware. (And if you compare the linux solutions on linux certified systems with the same performance, manageability and support you get from sun i would like to see ONE vendor that can compare!)
I also don't believe you understand the usefullness of Sun (non linux)solutions. You keep on correlating the costs to acquisition. In the real world the hardware/software costs don't mean squat. Any large IT business knows that your biggest cost is employees, software, licensing, support and contractors.
For one, i can spend 32,000 on a 4 way 64 bit cpu machine with 8 gigs of memory, 500gb diskspace and have Hotswappable CPU's, a VASTLY supperior backplane, Vastly superior scalability in growth and a proven reliable architecture. You Can't buy ANY linux solution/Wintel solution that comes close to the Solaris/RS6000/HPUX based systems out there. As i've stated before there is only ONE vendor that offers a machine feature comparison to suns LOW END/MID RANGE v880's and it doesn't come close in comparison to power. For example the only linux enabled hot swappable cpu/backplane/intel solution is built on 4 700 mhz pentium 3 processors and costs 24,000 for the base system. My Quad 1.2ghz v880 out of the box doesn't require anything proprietary, but on the linux solution you have to run the vendors version of linux, the vendors version of the apps compiled and can only use the vendors approved addons. Sure sun is only one vendor, but solaris is solaris. There isn't a mix match of versions, releases or there isn't a version of solaris for my v880 that doesn't work on my e10k. I can grow with a common platform to support from 1 user to 65000+ users and even cluster to support from that point on.
You have to get your mindset away from free/cheap = better. You have to realize that in the business world the costs for platforms that are tried and true is expected and also minimal compared to the costs to keep it running.
I would rather run my 2 terrabyte financial application on a slower sun server because of the reliability, the proven architecture and HA features. You have to remember that in my case 5 minutes of downtime costs $137,000. Suddenly a $3,000 Veritas volume management solution and a $100,000 hardware platform not only is justifyable but almost even insufficient in itself if you break out the cost vs requirements ratio.
I can make my 3 Terrabyte Clarrion System, my Sun V880 Systems, my Sun 280/240r webservers and my solaris management workstations run for months at a time in pure harmony. The fact that NOTHING CHANGES ON A WHIM IS A GODSEND!! The stability, and slowness by which things change is the reason why businesses rely on such as the costs are far from just your hardware/os purchase price.
Corporate support is absolute crap. We buy 2500 pc's every 2 years and they can't get that right even though its a 2+ million dollar deal!
Not to mention they can't re-brand anything and sell it correctly. We bought a 1 terrabyte clarrion storage system form them and went directly with EMC for another cabinet and 2 more terrabytes of space and had alot less headaches and hassles.
It appears dell no longer has any talent, and what they do have is stuck on location and not answering the phones!
Not to worry, compaq/hp is in a similar boat and they're work hard to get rid of them as well!
The IT world in general blows. We let microsoft ship buggy software, we pay oracle millions to fix stuff that never worked to begin with, we buy overly priced purple nurples from dell and we work day in and day out to fix sh*t that shouldn't need fixing all because alot of the time the right people are not in the right place doing the job correctly the first time.
Its all about MONEY and not a product anymore.
Whatever happened to selling pride, selling a service and selling quality. Hell, the only company i see selling that image is Chevy and even they're in such a crunch they don't push it like they used to.
oh well.
Dell sucks, end of story. If they can't support an over priced 1500.00 pc how the hell are they going to support download music and 99.00 to 199.00 devices to the masses?
I don't watch sports, so i want to quite payingf or ESPAN and the salaries of sports teams comcasts owns or subsidzies.
I want cable a-la-carte since half of it is shit anyway.
I also want cable companies to keep there greedy hands out of my services and off my network.
When i pay for something, its mine. Don't lie to me and say 3x faster then dsl if i can't use it at that capacity either.
Cable companies suck!
Sun sells to corporations. Sun doesn't really care about someone running solaris or linux on a home pc at this point.
They want a corporate network with thousands of pc's networked off sun "big iron".
To point out something. This month NEC released the first TRUELY "hot swappable" linux server. Its an OLD Quad P3 800mhz for nearly $26,000 that runs a hacked version of linux on a hacked kernel to support the features NEC needed.
On the other hand i can get a Quad CPU Sun V880 with 8 gigs of memory, redundant everything and run solaris 8, solaris 9 and every solaris app off the shelf for about 6 grand more. Were talking a 900 to 1000mhz Ultra Sparc 64bit CPU with 8 megs e-cache vs a pentium 3. With solaris 9 i can swap out CPU boards on a live system, i have all the big apps i need and not locked into a particular vendor. Should i'm locked into SUN, but i'm not locked into only running sun software. If you buy an HA linux solution today you most likely have to work with that vendor to get the software certified.
Do the math. For corporations that NEED mission critical use of UNIX servers, linux is NOT the cheapest solution when you figure in your total costs.
I pay 99.00 for solaris, and thats just the media. i can download the sparc iso's for free, but i like have media locked in cabinets for boot disks if necessary.
Coming from a sysadmin trying to manage an infrastructure, a turn-key solution like this from sun is a HUGE bargain.
:)
We pay more in PER USER fees for a standard Application server environment than what Sun wants for the entire "shebang".
For small businesses who focus on unix solutions i couldn't imagine a better way to "enterprise" your business.
Pushing this will push java, will push sun hardware, will push sun certified solutions, will push logo branding, will push certifications and that will push the company forward.
PS, I do have a few V880's, 280r's, Netra X1's, V240's and lots of other sun equipment. So this is good news
Either way, if you have an Xbox with a valid "bios" it will be udpated.
Remember, the BIOS is a boot loader, and its not necessarily the BIOS being udpated/changed. Sure they may be extending the bios functionality, but there are even PC's these days with agents to update your bios. As with the XBox you have to enable Xboxlive and agree to the TOS that you allow this. With your PC you have to enable live update and accept the TOS of the live updated service.
If you BUY a game and it updates your xbox you agreed to the terms of the game when you bought it.
Hell, most games for PC still require you to go update drivers, download directx or install some kind of patch for it to work correctly and alot will do that for you as well. Microsoft has just taken the guess work out of you having to fuss with it in the first place.
For those of you who don't OWN an xbox and just like to bitch about pointless things, the update actually adds some very nice features above and beyond what we dreamed of having with the 1st gen xbox.
Infact with the updates, the xbox has surpassed my pc in every aspect. Sure it isn't as much "Computing" power but it isn't a computer. Get that The xbox is NOT a computer it is a Video Game System . My xbox now has voice chat, and it is included with live, my xbox has superb online gaming, included with live. I pay a flat rate to get the features that are downloaded of which 99% of them are features XBOX users have requested
So please, if you hate microsoft we're all better off if you dont touch an xbox. You have your reasons whatever they are, and xbox owners have there reasons.
I like it, i wouldn't trade my xbox for anything else out there. I'm glad i don't have to manually install crap, i'm glad i just plug-n-play, i'm glad i get the new features that I request and that I participated in the beta testing of. I'm glad Microsoft has finally made a console that grows with the times and allows gamers to do what they wan't to do. Play GAMES
I didn't buy my xbox to run linux. Neither did the other 7-8 million owners out there.
I've havn't had a microsoft patch mess up anything on my system since Windows NT 4.0 SP1. SP3A and beyond have had no issues up through xp and windows 2003 server.
The XBox is updated IF and ONLY IF you are connected to the network and turn on your xbox with a "live aware" game. The xbox doesn't just randomly dial out and update.
BUT if you stick a game it that requires the update, the game will either install it from CD or if you have live configured download the latest dashboard for you.
whats wrong with that? WHen you signup for live most people consider this a FEATURE, especially since the dashboard updates added functionality over above and beyond what any other console can or will do within the next 2-3 years.
Doncha just love the fact that the first my documents returned is an MIT students lab PC describing security over wireless networks? haha
My webservers see serious cpu loads :)
Hosting 300 postnuke sites on a xeon system will keep that CPU burnin through cycles!
Plus hosting is many other things included Mailscanner running f-prot virus scanning & SpamCop checking on every inbound/outbound mail, pop3, ftp, httpd/https processes.
speaking of https.. are those accelerator cards worth it? what a hog on cpu!
Even if the opteron doesn't smoke other cpu's the motherboard technology will1
horray for motherboard advancements that are LONG overdue!!!
I loved OS/2 like no other os. OS/2 truely let me choose what i want out of my os.
:)
I could rip the gui off and install a 3rd party shell manager, i could install a command line shell/task switcher, i could extend the desktop, i could replace system objects and i could use modular file systems and much much more. It was just a "theme" or hack, it was extending the framework.. something unique even to this day!
Sure back in the 2.0 and 2.11 days running Windows Apps was an extra bonus, but i didn't bother with it other then saying "cool".
I was too busy bugging Mustang software to port wildcat! pro over, after they failed i jumped ship to PcBoard 15 and then eventually adopted synchronet all of which ran beautifully under OS/2 and still let me play my Sierra Games, surf the web and listen to my S3M's, MOD's and watch my future crew demos and chat online..
OS/2 Replaced DESQview 386 & Qemm as a stable and very nice MULTITASKING os. I was sure as hell glad when i finally got a CDROM as pushing floppies during install sucked ass. I had to upgrade to 16 megs of memory, but back then that was alot cheaper then pilling up multiple computers and running netware!!
But the golden era started when OS/2 Connect Came out. OS/2 connect taught me what networking was about. OS/2 connect gave me my first run into the world of TCP/IP, Netbios, and netware (had to install the OS/2 netware client to join up with my other machines for playing Doom!) I was able to run my BBS and have a 19.2 modem connection to the internet and it all worked through the magic SIO comm driver replacements. Runnning DOS doors, IRC chats, Usenet gateways and UUCP feeds, i was the baddest 15 year old running an BBS/ISP.
Not to mention i was a part of TeamOS/2, getting free shirts, visiting conferences and getting published in books! Remember those OS/2 unleashed books? I'm there
Everything started to peak at OS/2 warp 3.0.. for a while there was even 3rd party software at the store. Object desktop was showing the power of object oriented desktop and the gui/workplace shell and days were looking good.
Then came... OS/2 Warp 4.0 with its 179.00+ upgrade and 299.00 base fee.. NT 4.0 was now out and pushing for...uhm.. FREE on any PC you bought that day.. basically putting the nail in the coffin.
I ran OS/2 warp 4.0 for a while longer and then switched to Linux and NT myself.. Linux was finally coming of age and after being the first BBS in houston to offer linux for download i (12 floppies mang) i chose to convert myself.
BBS Scene died, had to spend more time in school, got a job and ended up working my way up through the internet world and now work as an oracle guru..
funny how OS/2 started it all for me. Nice to see some of that still alive. Visit OS2.org and say high! There is even a port of Wine to run windows apps emulated/native on OS/2 and much much more..
amazingly, driver support is still doing well. IBM *STILL* sells OS/2.. its just called "WorkPlace OS" now.
Come on!!!
There is spam because the system is insecure. Force AUTH based SMTP and use SSL.
Use RBL's, SpamCop and Spews to blacklist people who don't want to grow up and be secure! Big ISP's should do this, Cable & DSL providers should do this.
With wireless tech i can login to anyways network and spam away as long as i'm behind an IP address allowed by there servers.
Its LONG overdue! Use our preventative technologies to enforce some decisions for the better of the network, not the perogatives of a select few!!!!!
Looking for part time help. College students, laid off workers or whatnot. Email your resume & requirements to byron at turboweb dot net.
:)
Small Web hosting company that IS profitable, IS growing, doesn't have HUGE expenses and is self suffecient (no outside loans, no debt load, no foreign investors to decide policy).
Seeking people for:
Sales - Selling Hosting, Dedicated servers and custom development work.
Java/JSP/Servlet developer. Must have developer experience as well as understand JVM's and be able to work with Oracle 9iAS, JBoss, Tomcat and Web Sphere. Struts Knowledge requried. - Most projects are for extended Compiere CRM and building customer projects as well as in house code.
Support Staff - Mainly a "CSR" type position. Tech support is handled throught trouble ticket system and need a person who is customer oriented, who can answer questions and help solve issues as well as be able to make a sale, answer general hosting sales questions and be a general Customer Service Rep.
All a salaried/Hourly positions. Sales associates earn commissions & salary.
Send me your resumes
Yeah.. HDTV is here and now and my xbox does a better job of HDTV support and media playback then this "pc" ever will :)
:)
No stuttering DVD, instant on, WMA support, SPDIF/Digital audio out.. all for 199 brand new or 100 bucks ebay
THPS 4 @ 720 is simply amazing on a 96" screen!
These companies have TOP NOTCH "consumer" digital equipment from receivers, dvd players to high end display devices.
I personally think this is a *GOOD* thing as i can't wait to see what comes up and out of this!!
They could have meet this figures very quickly.
1. Xboxlive is a great system. People who use it, buy just about any live enabled game.
2. Xbox has the disk, processor and storage to use addons or interact with the PC environment very easily.
3. Instant seller. See Item #1 and the fact they could have had MS marketing with them.
Why they're releasing a dumbed down version AFTER the PS/2 i dunno..
and WHY they didn't do Sims ONline for the PS2 is beyond me as well.
More information will be broadcasted at 3:00 PM EST on NasaTV.
NasaTV will broadcast the official nasa press release & update at 1:00 EST. Watch it wouthout all the fluff on broadcast tv.
http://www.broadcast.com/learning_and_education/sc ience/space/nasa/nasa_television/
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Supports 56k and broadband. Official meda channel for NasaTV if you don't have access to satelite.
More links available on google.
http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/live/nasatv.
haha
:)
The first porn site i ever saw:
http://www.smarties.com
Back when Netscape 1.0 was out and i had to use the local community colleges lab to get online! (thank you North Harris Community College)
Who would have thought it would be a "candy" store
Archive.org goes back to 1996, not sure HOW far back in 1996 but probably far enough to provide archived links of many wesbites containing the type of content/links/navigation as patented.
Have fun!
http://www.archive.org
Excellent site at that!