Have also been following ttp://www.cogentco.com/, seems to cheap to be true... Anyone with experience?
No direct experience, but I had been obsessing over their 100 Mbps for $1,000 a month for a long time, before I finally found something out. It's not an Internet connection. It seems that you use it for interconnecting your sites. So you will have 100 Mbps access to, well... Nothing.
This is just my understanding of things; I could be wrong. And if I'm wrong, *please* post a comment; I'd really like to be wrong about this!:-D
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When I follow the above link, it, obviously, gives me a 404 error. (Yes, I know... No sane person would follow a link with a ton of spaces then an e-mail address...) It asks me to inform their administrator of the error. I'm tempted. Very tempted.
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Can't you just give the anchovies to your pet penguin(s) that you printed? (In the exact likeness of Tux, of course.)
What a script kiddie could do to really bug someone would be to print *rotting* fish... OR BILL GATES!!!!! ("Yeah, I installed a firewall after a script kiddy broke into my Linux box and printed out a hundred copies of Bill Gates.")
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I've been known to propose VMware as solutions to various programs... I've never actually used it extensively, though I've used a couple demos.
Essentially, it creates a virtual machine. It was 'designed' to let you run Linux under Windows and vice versa. (They have two different versions - one to run on Windows, and one to run on Linux.) However, you are not tied to running the opposite - I am considering getting the version for Linux (since that's what I use) and putting multiple Linux distros on it.
So, essentially, you can buy VMware (they seem to have a new server edition; don't quite understand the added features), and run Slackware, Debian, or whatever under the RedHat they force you to use... Or, you could opt for Windoze (if you think viewers will like the blue "color scheme" that occurs frequently...), or even another *nix. I think BeOS is possible, too...
Again, I've never actually used it much, so I don't know if it's the type of thing I want powering my webserver.
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The world's most powerful mouse? Does it have SMP going or something? All SCSI/100 inputs? Perhaps it is actually a Beowulf cluster of mice? Does it run Linux? If not, can I put Linux on it? I want to be able to hack into my super-powerful mouse.
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This is just getting plain freaky. People are getting satellite imagery of this guy's house. (Or whatever; maybe it's a business.)
That said, here's some more info. I looked them up at Netcraft, which returns the following information: The site gamedvdplayer.com runs Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98
Glancing down the screen, I find some more information.
IP Address: 63.196.55.66 Netblock owner:Interactive Telecom Network Inc
To be truly nosy, I followed another link, and found this information on the sites that Interactive Telecom... hosts. They have about 15 sites, but one more caught my eye - dvd8050.com. It happens to be running the same OS/Webserver as gamedvdplayer.com...
DVD8050.com points right back to this Dulux site, which, BTW, looks very nicely laid out. If this was just something some guy was doing for amusement, I'd think that it would be something thrown together in FrontPage.
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"It could have been anything... Sharks can
come and bite it, even though it's armored. Sections of the cable are different widths," she said. (From TheAge.com.au)
Excuse me? Sometimes sharks bite it?! Don't you think something's wrong if any shark can just swim up and have a few miles of a major Internet backbone for lunch?
I am really hoping that I'm missing something here. As I read the story, all I could imagine was this super-thin strand of fiber-optic cable just lying on the sea floor. Someone please tell me that this is not so. I know they have it "armored", but if a shark can bite through it, then there's nothing really stopping a scheming human from hooking themselves into this. Imagine - buy a length of Gigabit fiber, and hook yourself right up to it... But seriously, if they just have this thing lying there as I imagined, they're really asking for it.
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... for IBM. They get about $30 and and old computer. Yes, it sounds like I'm kidding, but seriously - you pay them to take your computer and decide if they should refurbish (read: fix up and sell) again, making money off of something you paid them to take). Umm, what's up with this? Maybe if they paid you $29.99 it would be different. But this is outrageous!!
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I've been reading about this conference/study, and have been reflecting on several influential posts. After much deep reflection, I have come to a conclusion on a necessary course of action. In other words, I developed an opinion of what ICANN should do.
The whole TLD thing has been severely tarnished by people who want to make sure people don't get lost in their sites. (So, the TLD problem is indirectly the fault of stupid people...) Really, though, if people used things the way they were meant to, we wouldn't have this problem. Take, for instance, a proper usage of TLD's that I found. At ThinkGeek (who, by the way, have both.org and.com, and maybe.net), they link to a company offering DSL called SpeakEasy. I looked around for a while, and then left. The next day, I decided to follow-up on it, and sat down and typed in "speakeasy.com", fully intending to come up at SpeakEasy's DSL page. Instead, I arrived at "Speakeasy Computing Corporation", and skimmed their page for "DSL". The huge text reading "
(We do NOT provide DSL connections. If you came here looking for help with yours, try contacting Speakeasy.NET)
Speakeasy Computing Corporation is a software firm and has no affiliation with speakeasy.net".
I felt kind of stupid,.net should have been the obvious choice for an ISP. But I gave it some thought, and soon realized that the reason I was so "stupid" was the result of "stupid" people. A few people couldn't figure out.com vs..org vs..net, so people registered them all. Then I started to (subconsciously, I suppose) realize that it didn't really matter what I typed in --.com was the most popular, so I might as well just type that in, right?
I've seen a few posts mentioning that we really need to start eliminating TLD's, and they were usually moderated as either "Flamebate" or "Funny". The fact is, the idea isn't too bad. But I have an alternative idea.
ICANN should require justification of why you deserve a domain. Now, everyone's going to flame me for this, but give it some thought. If RedHat wants to register a domain for their business, they could apply for.com. They could also apply for.org and.net to help confused visitors, but these would be rejected as a waste of domains. Then, I could, in theory, register the "RedHat Fan Club" page as redhat.org. Of course, there are problems with this - I could claim to be the RedHat Fan Club but actually be the RedHat Sucks Club, and that would mean lawsuits.
So, essentially, all I'm proposing is that domain name registrars actually do some investigation into them. This would really leave a lot more domains open for legitimate uses. My idea presented here is not perfect, but I think the general concept is at least worth some consideration.
The other thing that I would like to see not given much consideration in the above process is people who register some generic word - take computers as an example. I've never been to computers.com, so let's just assume for a minute... Computers.com is (in our imaginary scenario, remember) a page with links to 10 quadrillion computer-related sites. The page isn't sorted in any manner at all. It's just red text on a blue background, with a banner ad. The site looks like crap; it looks worse than newbie-designed FrontPage creations. (Again, a disclaimer - I don't know what computers.com is, I'm just using it as an example.) They really tick me off, I'd really rather end up at Microsoft's web page then at an index of every single page that is in some way related to computers...
But there are flaws with this. If ICANN refuses to register Loser.com to someone wishing to use it as a link to Al Gore's web page (which it is!), then that person could file lawsuits because they're "favoring Al Gore" or whatever...
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When I first got into the whole Linux thing, I was always wondering what was up with the OSS references - I thought it stood for Office of Strategic Services. Took me a while to figure out that it was actually "Open Source Software". Then there's always PCMCIA - I still to this day cannot figure out what the heck that is...
And while on the subject, the letter "X" is getting really confusing, too. There was X Windows for UNIX (I'm relatively sure that the X was just a cool letter.) Then Apple came out with OS X, the X being for ten. But OS X was also based on a lot of UNIX code, so I for a while thought that it ran X Windows. And then Microsoft realized that it was missing out on the fad and created the "X Box".;-)
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Have we forgotten the entire city in Florida that coulnd't figure out how to use the ballot? Okay, so it was confusing, maybe they weren't entirely braindead. But still, it brings up a good point - what about the completely technologically illiterate people?
Even with something as simple as a touchscreen, I'm sure people will manage to get completely confused.
The good thing with this is that no ballots can get "lost" (How the hell do you *lose* ballots???)
Additional issues come up, however. Suppose the computer crashes. Suppose the hard drive dies? Suppose someone manages to 'hack' the computer? I'm sure that someone could figure out a way... What happens if you touch multiple places at once? Try dragging both hands across the screen... Eventually, someone will at least _claim_ to have hacked the election computer. Elections will take years of recounts...
But if this can eliminate some of the problems we're facing now - people losing ballots, not being able to "figure out" how to vote, getting barricaded inside a building by a bear (?!?!), etc... Then go for it.
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My understanding of the 40,000 character thing was that there were forty thousand possible characters, not the length.
By the way, I think it's actaully 64 characters, assuming a three-character TLD. I think that they allow you to register 67 characters, but the TLD (.com,.net,.org, etc.) counts. But the dot in the TLD doesn't. Or something confusing like that...
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Even if you devised a way to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that your computer was at a specific location, how could you prove that you were there? For example, let's say that I have put up a webserver in UUNet's data center in Moscow. (I'm pretty sure that they don't have one; just play along.) From my computer here in the US, I can launch a VNC session (or, if I really wanted, telnet) into my computer there, and use *that* to get there. So the computer that gets the information really is in Moscow, but I'm in the US. They have no way of knowing, unless they are allowed to break into my computer and see _everything_ that's happening.
BTW, I have an easy way to accomplish this. You know how the Pentium III had a built-in ID number that it could give out? (Fortunately, this never took off in popularity.) I'm not sure if the P4 dropped this or not. But maybe they can make a P5 with a built-in GPS, and it can send that out everywhere!;-)
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Looks like a webpage... Seriously, the whole interface looks like an MSN web "portal". And I personally have a hard time using such things. I'd much rather double-click on "My xterm" -- I mean, start up an xterm window, than try to figure out all this weird stuff. (Sorry about the "My xterm" joke, I know, it's not funny... I just have the word "My" on My Mind after seeing all of these screenshots for Whistler on My Computer.)
And what's with this "Power off my computer." option? This will undoubtedly cause confusion when you try to reboot it. Or can you not reboot it? That would be a MAJOR flaw...;-)
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Yep... Ditto. I've got Netscape on Linux, and this has crashed it every time. Moderators, I agree, this should be pointed out. My hands are getting sore from kill -9'ing Netscape.
I did see a tiny bit of the page before it crashed Netscape for the bazillionth time, and it looked really cool. I'm going to reboot into Windows (!!) and view it with IE (!!). That's how desperate I am. Hopefully the dust won't have clogged up my Windows drive...
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The idea's cool, but a 100% wooden case is a horrible idea. The topics of overheating and grounding have already surfaced, but here's another. Computers are horribly noisy machines with regard to radios. Trust me, mine makes a huge racket over the radio. The reason? I believe that it's because my computer's cover is just layed over the comptuer, I haven't actually screwed it back in from last time I was in there.
However, that said, a nice cherry system is a COOL idea. So here's what I propose - wooden overlays. You could opt to have case completely covered with wood, or you could choose "wooden highlights", sorta like what you get in fancy cars.
Unfortunately, there's one thing that I can see happening that would immediately take a case from "pretty" to "hideous" - a wooden panel falls off. Then you have these adhesive stipes over crappy metal exposed, and the whole effect is ruined...
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I have no idea what half of my bookmarks are. In the past, whenever I found a cool site, I'd bookmark it. But now I see "Welcome to [bizarre company name]" in my bookmarks list, and start to wonder what it is. I have actually started to maintain an HTML document - when I find something bookmark-worthy, I just bring up an xterm and vi, and add a line of code describing what it is.
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...on what you're doing. If you're doing something mission-critical, you might want to find one of the $1,000+ cluster distros, for the support that comes with them. Otherwise, I'd say just pick your favorite. Now, carpe dium or whatever - I've never setup a clutser. I've used them, but don't consider my words to be infaliable.
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Now see what you started? An innocent mistake leads to a huge flame war over the nitty-gritty details of the grammatically correct way to quote various sources...
My point - does anyone really care? If you had deliberately ripped the material off, that would be one thing. But a goof is something completely different -- and, frankly, no one should really care. (I know this will lead to flames if I don't clear it up: No on should be that concerned if they know it was an innocent mistake; if they thought you were trying to steal credit for it, that would be something different.)
So let's stop whining about people accidentally misquoting things, and, umm... do something else.
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After reading this, I have a sudden urge to play "xbill", and then call him up personally and say "You're lying, Bill!"
Linux prides itself on the "open source" model, which counts on programmers around the world contributing to a product. In theory, the idea of free labor is wonderful. In reality, there just are not that many skilled programmers willing to work for free.
We "count on" programmers around the world? Is he implying that it's better to rely on one company? Bill honestly believes this? Let's just suppose that I wake up tomorrow morning and find that Bill Gates kidnapped everyone who had even worked on the Linux kernel. I would certainly be shocked (although I would suspect about that much from them), but not entirely alarmed. Why? I've got the source code on my system.
And, about the fact that everyone hates working... This is simply not so. Ever gotten addicted to a project? This sounds vaguely familiar. And besides, who cares if Linus spends exactly 8 hours a day working on the 2.4 kernel? Who is to dictate how much time is appropriate to spend on a "hobby"? And is "Bill" implying that all of his developers, himself included, are eager to go home every day? Like I really want to work here now...
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My "real" name is Matt. Sounds kinda like Microsoft, doesn't it? I'm worried that people will think I'm Microsoft and try to sabotage my house. Maybe I can shut down Microsoft.com, net, and org?
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I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that Digital (purchased quite some time ago by Compaq) had the Windows source code. Why?
Supposedly, the Digital company president left Digital to work at Microsoft, taking a copy of the VMS source code with him. The folks at Digital started to get a little suspicious, and it was eventually found through a series of legal battles, that Microsoft had put much of the original VMS source code - with original comments by the Digital programmers intact - into Windows.
So, with this in mind, I have no doubt that there's a little *nix in Windows. But not much, or Windows would actually work...:-P
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Slashdot Mirror
No direct experience, but I had been obsessing over their 100 Mbps for $1,000 a month for a long time, before I finally found something out. It's not an Internet connection. It seems that you use it for interconnecting your sites. So you will have 100 Mbps access to, well... Nothing.
This is just my understanding of things; I could be wrong. And if I'm wrong, *please* post a comment; I'd really like to be wrong about this! :-D
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
What a script kiddie could do to really bug someone would be to print *rotting* fish... OR BILL GATES!!!!! ("Yeah, I installed a firewall after a script kiddy broke into my Linux box and printed out a hundred copies of Bill Gates.")
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"This server is powered by GNU/Linux on a GNU/Paper cluster..." :-)
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Essentially, it creates a virtual machine. It was 'designed' to let you run Linux under Windows and vice versa. (They have two different versions - one to run on Windows, and one to run on Linux.) However, you are not tied to running the opposite - I am considering getting the version for Linux (since that's what I use) and putting multiple Linux distros on it.
So, essentially, you can buy VMware (they seem to have a new server edition; don't quite understand the added features), and run Slackware, Debian, or whatever under the RedHat they force you to use... Or, you could opt for Windoze (if you think viewers will like the blue "color scheme" that occurs frequently...), or even another *nix. I think BeOS is possible, too...
Again, I've never actually used it much, so I don't know if it's the type of thing I want powering my webserver.
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SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
That said, here's some more info. I looked them up at Netcraft, which returns the following information:
The site gamedvdplayer.com runs Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98
Glancing down the screen, I find some more information.
IP Address: 63.196.55.66
Netblock owner:Interactive Telecom Network Inc
To be truly nosy, I followed another link, and found this information on the sites that Interactive Telecom... hosts. They have about 15 sites, but one more caught my eye - dvd8050.com. It happens to be running the same OS/Webserver as gamedvdplayer.com...
BTW, to get the information on what they're hosting, visit http://uptime.netcraft.com/hosted?netname=SBCIS990 913-196,63.196.48.0,63.196.55.255
DVD8050.com points right back to this Dulux site, which, BTW, looks very nicely laid out. If this was just something some guy was doing for amusement, I'd think that it would be something thrown together in FrontPage.
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Excuse me? Sometimes sharks bite it?! Don't you think something's wrong if any shark can just swim up and have a few miles of a major Internet backbone for lunch?
I am really hoping that I'm missing something here. As I read the story, all I could imagine was this super-thin strand of fiber-optic cable just lying on the sea floor. Someone please tell me that this is not so. I know they have it "armored", but if a shark can bite through it, then there's nothing really stopping a scheming human from hooking themselves into this. Imagine - buy a length of Gigabit fiber, and hook yourself right up to it... But seriously, if they just have this thing lying there as I imagined, they're really asking for it.
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
The whole TLD thing has been severely tarnished by people who want to make sure people don't get lost in their sites. (So, the TLD problem is indirectly the fault of stupid people...) Really, though, if people used things the way they were meant to, we wouldn't have this problem. Take, for instance, a proper usage of TLD's that I found. At ThinkGeek (who, by the way, have both .org and .com, and maybe .net), they link to a company offering DSL called SpeakEasy. I looked around for a while, and then left. The next day, I decided to follow-up on it, and sat down and typed in "speakeasy.com", fully intending to come up at SpeakEasy's DSL page. Instead, I arrived at "Speakeasy Computing Corporation", and skimmed their page for "DSL". The huge text reading "
(We do NOT provide DSL connections. If you came here looking for help with yours, try contacting Speakeasy.NET)
Speakeasy Computing Corporation is a software firm and has no affiliation with speakeasy.net".
I felt kind of stupid, .net should have been the obvious choice for an ISP. But I gave it some thought, and soon realized that the reason I was so "stupid" was the result of "stupid" people. A few people couldn't figure out .com vs. .org vs. .net, so people registered them all. Then I started to (subconsciously, I suppose) realize that it didn't really matter what I typed in -- .com was the most popular, so I might as well just type that in, right?
I've seen a few posts mentioning that we really need to start eliminating TLD's, and they were usually moderated as either "Flamebate" or "Funny". The fact is, the idea isn't too bad. But I have an alternative idea.
ICANN should require justification of why you deserve a domain. Now, everyone's going to flame me for this, but give it some thought. If RedHat wants to register a domain for their business, they could apply for .com. They could also apply for .org and .net to help confused visitors, but these would be rejected as a waste of domains. Then, I could, in theory, register the "RedHat Fan Club" page as redhat.org. Of course, there are problems with this - I could claim to be the RedHat Fan Club but actually be the RedHat Sucks Club, and that would mean lawsuits.
So, essentially, all I'm proposing is that domain name registrars actually do some investigation into them. This would really leave a lot more domains open for legitimate uses. My idea presented here is not perfect, but I think the general concept is at least worth some consideration.
The other thing that I would like to see not given much consideration in the above process is people who register some generic word - take computers as an example. I've never been to computers.com, so let's just assume for a minute... Computers.com is (in our imaginary scenario, remember) a page with links to 10 quadrillion computer-related sites. The page isn't sorted in any manner at all. It's just red text on a blue background, with a banner ad. The site looks like crap; it looks worse than newbie-designed FrontPage creations. (Again, a disclaimer - I don't know what computers.com is, I'm just using it as an example.) They really tick me off, I'd really rather end up at Microsoft's web page then at an index of every single page that is in some way related to computers...
But there are flaws with this. If ICANN refuses to register Loser.com to someone wishing to use it as a link to Al Gore's web page (which it is!), then that person could file lawsuits because they're "favoring Al Gore" or whatever...
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
And while on the subject, the letter "X" is getting really confusing, too. There was X Windows for UNIX (I'm relatively sure that the X was just a cool letter.) Then Apple came out with OS X, the X being for ten. But OS X was also based on a lot of UNIX code, so I for a while thought that it ran X Windows. And then Microsoft realized that it was missing out on the fad and created the "X Box". ;-)
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Even with something as simple as a touchscreen, I'm sure people will manage to get completely confused.
The good thing with this is that no ballots can get "lost" (How the hell do you *lose* ballots???)
Additional issues come up, however. Suppose the computer crashes. Suppose the hard drive dies? Suppose someone manages to 'hack' the computer? I'm sure that someone could figure out a way... What happens if you touch multiple places at once? Try dragging both hands across the screen... Eventually, someone will at least _claim_ to have hacked the election computer. Elections will take years of recounts...
But if this can eliminate some of the problems we're facing now - people losing ballots, not being able to "figure out" how to vote, getting barricaded inside a building by a bear (?!?!), etc... Then go for it.
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
By the way, I think it's actaully 64 characters, assuming a three-character TLD. I think that they allow you to register 67 characters, but the TLD (.com, .net, .org, etc.) counts. But the dot in the TLD doesn't. Or something confusing like that...
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BTW, I have an easy way to accomplish this. You know how the Pentium III had a built-in ID number that it could give out? (Fortunately, this never took off in popularity.) I'm not sure if the P4 dropped this or not. But maybe they can make a P5 with a built-in GPS, and it can send that out everywhere! ;-)
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
And what's with this "Power off my computer." option? This will undoubtedly cause confusion when you try to reboot it. Or can you not reboot it? That would be a MAJOR flaw... ;-)
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
I did see a tiny bit of the page before it crashed Netscape for the bazillionth time, and it looked really cool. I'm going to reboot into Windows (!!) and view it with IE (!!). That's how desperate I am. Hopefully the dust won't have clogged up my Windows drive...
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However, that said, a nice cherry system is a COOL idea. So here's what I propose - wooden overlays. You could opt to have case completely covered with wood, or you could choose "wooden highlights", sorta like what you get in fancy cars.
Unfortunately, there's one thing that I can see happening that would immediately take a case from "pretty" to "hideous" - a wooden panel falls off. Then you have these adhesive stipes over crappy metal exposed, and the whole effect is ruined...
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
My point - does anyone really care? If you had deliberately ripped the material off, that would be one thing. But a goof is something completely different -- and, frankly, no one should really care. (I know this will lead to flames if I don't clear it up: No on should be that concerned if they know it was an innocent mistake; if they thought you were trying to steal credit for it, that would be something different.)
So let's stop whining about people accidentally misquoting things, and, umm... do something else.
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Linux prides itself on the "open source" model, which counts on programmers around the world contributing to a product. In theory, the idea of free labor is wonderful. In reality, there just are not that many skilled programmers willing to work for free.
We "count on" programmers around the world? Is he implying that it's better to rely on one company? Bill honestly believes this? Let's just suppose that I wake up tomorrow morning and find that Bill Gates kidnapped everyone who had even worked on the Linux kernel. I would certainly be shocked (although I would suspect about that much from them), but not entirely alarmed. Why? I've got the source code on my system.
And, about the fact that everyone hates working... This is simply not so. Ever gotten addicted to a project? This sounds vaguely familiar. And besides, who cares if Linus spends exactly 8 hours a day working on the 2.4 kernel? Who is to dictate how much time is appropriate to spend on a "hobby"? And is "Bill" implying that all of his developers, himself included, are eager to go home every day? Like I really want to work here now...
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
SUWAIN: Slashdot User Without An Interesting Name
Supposedly, the Digital company president left Digital to work at Microsoft, taking a copy of the VMS source code with him. The folks at Digital started to get a little suspicious, and it was eventually found through a series of legal battles, that Microsoft had put much of the original VMS source code - with original comments by the Digital programmers intact - into Windows.
So, with this in mind, I have no doubt that there's a little *nix in Windows. But not much, or Windows would actually work... :-P
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