because they were not stupid. they _controled_ it, but didn't try to restrict it as a form of pressure like the english did. guess which empire lasted longer ?
it'd mean that SCO's case against IBM would have _some_ (and i say _some_) merit.
now, if the court decision sticks, means their case against IBM have no basis. and since novell own the copyright, novel can simply put everything in public domain, something that AT&T already did with some ancient versions, reducing even more their chances against the blue suits from armonk.
imagine you're the CEO of a fortune 500 company. you lost your notebook/iphone/whatever. it's full of data that could be worth millions to a competitor. wouldn't you want the ability to lock/wipe/destroy the unit remotely ?
we're not talking about pictures you took of your junk with the camera here. we're talking serious business. remote wipe in this case is a selling point that will definetely put the iphone into blackberry's turf.
this mythical "citizen" you talk about doesn't have time to run through the resumes of every registered candidate on the ballot, it'd take time from work, leisure family. so they rely on the same sources of information they rely for other purchase decisions: advertising, news coverage and word of mouth.
the result is that better funded products (for the sake of this post, let's consider politicians a product) get a lot more exposure and bigger mind share, which results in larger sales (or more votes). so, unless the politician is already a billionaire like ross perot, they need funding to pay for campaigns. the funding comes from big corporations, that make sure only to invest in "products" that will bring return.
some countries like brasil and portugal have mandatory "political time" (brasil) or "antena rights" (portugal) that gives political parties free time on over-the-air TV and radio so they can get exposure without spending through the nose. this helps a great deal to promote _real_ change on the political landscape. in US, where those right don't exist, change doesn't happen that easy, no matter which party is in power.
in other times, justice could be relied to bring some change, but not anymore for what i know. even justice is being corrupted by bribery in the form of "campaign contributions".
you assume that in this alternative world, IBM would've made the same decision regarding the hardware, the wuthor probably don't. in the history we know, IBM chose intel's chips because 8086 and 8088 were direct descendants, and backwards compatible with, of 8080, the chip that ran CP/M originally. and IBM wanted an easy way to run the fairly large CP/M software library from the get-go. the choice fell on microsoft's lap because they came with a CPM clone for 8086 that was a lot cheaper than the true CP/M.
if they had decided that they wanted to run unix code from the get-go, they'd probably have chosen M68k chips, as they were the most affordable chip capable of running unix at the time.
i'm not an expert on this, but according to this, windows so far has been built only for litte endian architectures, or chips that can change endian-ness at boot or on-the-fly. this limits MS's choice of target architectures somewhat.
i'd like to see if they're capable of building a version for big-endian chips like SPARC or latest PPCs.
Crowds fired upon are always "unarmed civilians". With no real context to the larger situation going on, we have no idea what the real story is. If I'm in a gunship and a guy in a crowd of civilians has a stinger (or the like), the people in that crowd are about to have a really bad day. Sucks, but that's life.
if you're in a gunship and have only that crappy camera to base your decisions, you either get close enough to be able to read the fucking "nikon" on the camera's body, or let the job to the infantry.
gunships were created to attack vehicles, a situation where it's pretty damn hard to confuse a pickup truck with civilians to a tank with a big ass cannon on top. using an apache to engage people on foot from a kilometer away is pretty fucked up.
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apple could put a split-keyboard as 2 quarter-circles on the corners of the screen. one for the right thumb, one for the left thumb.
would take some time to get used to, but would allow for lengthier typing without having to place the slab on an awkward position.
because if you don't "fix" what's "not broken", the competion will steamroll you with newer, fancier models and you'll end up broken.
using car analogies, there's nothing "broken" in this year's models from every manufacturer, but if they don't "fix" them, next year they'll be deep in the red, watching the competition take all the market.
sales are driven by innovation. microsoft only innovation was bringing a GUI that you could slap in a generic, gray box, low cost PC. but this is old news. people want other stuff now. things MS can't deliver.
hi neighbor (i'm from brasil). just to add one thing about manual transmissions.
in MT cars, acceleration from a stand still is a lot more fine-grained than in automatics. since you can't simply release the clutch completely without stalling the engine, the driver is required to apply some pressure to the gas, usually enough to put the engine in the maximum torque area of the torque curve, then release the clutch slowly. the more the clutch is released, the more RPMs is transmitted to the wheels. this efectively turns the clutch into a speed governor. you can actually press the gas pedal all the way to the floor and still have precision control of the acceleration and speed.
to have a sudden acceleration in a stick shifter, the driver would have to floor the gas pedal AND release the clutch suddenly. this would cause the car to jump ahead screaming tires (if it's a more powerful model) or stall suddenly.
having two pedals, one as a torque control, the other as governor, goes a long way to ensure safety.
taiwan is an autonomous, rebel, province of china. they don't answer to beijing. the only reason most conuntries don't recognize taiwan as independent is to avoid diplomatic tensions with beijing.
if you hate mainland china's abuses, buy from taiwan. that's money that doesn't go to beijing spend in censorship.
well, since we're going the system admin path, i'm a unix SA. i manage the commercial stuff (solaris, AIX, etc.), but most of my skills translate well to linux, so, here we go.
what you're looking for is LDAP.
i remember once that i tried, just for the kicks, to install novell linux on a home desktop after they sent me a package with several DVDs for free. my biggest surprise was when it asked me for an LDAP server... so i said WTF !?! short sotry, i stoped the installation, configured an openLDAP on the host and informed the host IP address as my LDAP server. worked like a charm. after it was installed, i could authenticate my made-up user on the novell guest without any non-root user on the guest's/etc/passwd. that's your solution to enforce passwd changing and central management of users.
now, e-mail and calendar. i don't know how evolution deals with more advanced exchange stuff without a commercial plugin, but if you have can fiddle with your exchange server, configure it to accept IMAP connections.
here where i work, our exchange have IMAP open, so i'm testing the possibility of using KDE's suite KPIM. I already know that invites for meetings and stuff shows up on an IMAP folder as regular mail messages with an iCal file attached, so it's probably usable without having to resort to crossover.
also, if you plan to run MS office, upgrade to 2007. exchange 2003 doesn't work with crossover nor regular wine. 2007 work right. the only problems i had were with activation (it doesn't activate over the net. you have to do it by phone or use a VLK that don't need activation) and attached files show with an OLE error message, you have to go on the menu/save as/save all attachments to get them on the disk before you can open them.
drop me a private message if you need more help, ok ?
you're gonna get a lot of this here. so let's get this out of the way, shall we ?
now, if you REALLY need to run some kinds of windows apps, since your computer probably came with windows already, no need to put it to waste. move it to a virtual machine with sun's excellent virtual box, plus fork some more cash for crossover office.
here at my job, I got fed up with windows, so after the company replaced our old notebooks by newwer dual core machines, i moved to linux, office (i can't get rid of outlook yet.) runs on crossover, some proprietary tools run on windows xp inside virtual box, that i fire up only when needed.
the good thing about virtual machines is that you can make snapshots. create a snapshot of yours right after installing windows. then use it whenever you need, just be carefull not to open anything funny, avoid using a browser inside it. even if all these precautions you get infected, discard the current state and boot the last clean snapshot.
everything else, run on the linux host. this way you don't need an anti-virus any better than microsoft's own.
i never used any virtualization solution on macs, but if vmware's fusion product is anything like the windows/linux counterpart, it certainly have similar functionality.
right here in my room. and in my room mate's room. and in the homes of everybody i know who have CFLs.
never seen any interference on remotes. plus, anything that emits heat also emits infrared radiation. like your body and mine. like regular incandescent bulbs.
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because they were not stupid. they _controled_ it, but didn't try to restrict it as a form of pressure like the english did. guess which empire lasted longer ?
sodium, sodium, sodium...
when is this BULLSHIT of renaming common things it's going to end ??? what is this fucking thing ? social engineering ?
it's called SALT !!! plain and simple. salt !
now, you try legislating salt. go ahead. do it.
the last ones who tried were the english. the end result was that they lost their bigest and richer colony. namely, india.
every nation that tried to limit or control salt before ended up with either a war or a revolution on their hands.
it'd mean that SCO's case against IBM would have _some_ (and i say _some_) merit.
now, if the court decision sticks, means their case against IBM have no basis. and since novell own the copyright, novel can simply put everything in public domain, something that AT&T already did with some ancient versions, reducing even more their chances against the blue suits from armonk.
sigh. i miss the 10 reais plastic bill.
wish the central bank had kept the agreement with australia to keep them flowing. maybe even extend it to other denominations.
Business LOVE remote wiping capabilities.
imagine you're the CEO of a fortune 500 company. you lost your notebook/iphone/whatever. it's full of data that could be worth millions to a competitor. wouldn't you want the ability to lock/wipe/destroy the unit remotely ?
we're not talking about pictures you took of your junk with the camera here. we're talking serious business. remote wipe in this case is a selling point that will definetely put the iphone into blackberry's turf.
so people with whom the deceased lost contact can know what happened and get back in touch with the family
this mythical "citizen" you talk about doesn't have time to run through the resumes of every registered candidate on the ballot, it'd take time from work, leisure family. so they rely on the same sources of information they rely for other purchase decisions: advertising, news coverage and word of mouth.
the result is that better funded products (for the sake of this post, let's consider politicians a product) get a lot more exposure and bigger mind share, which results in larger sales (or more votes). so, unless the politician is already a billionaire like ross perot, they need funding to pay for campaigns. the funding comes from big corporations, that make sure only to invest in "products" that will bring return.
some countries like brasil and portugal have mandatory "political time" (brasil) or "antena rights" (portugal) that gives political parties free time on over-the-air TV and radio so they can get exposure without spending through the nose. this helps a great deal to promote _real_ change on the political landscape. in US, where those right don't exist, change doesn't happen that easy, no matter which party is in power.
in other times, justice could be relied to bring some change, but not anymore for what i know. even justice is being corrupted by bribery in the form of "campaign contributions".
dude, if you were a girl, i'd ask you to go out on a date...
only problem with switching back to WPS would be removing the windowmaker icon i have tatooed on my back...
the IBM AT had _real_ multitasking capabilities. it was based on 80286, which was plenty capable of running preemptive multitasking in protected mode.
kludgy tricks were needed to multi-task real mode DOS apps.
4th paragraph on the "hystory" section.
one word and one number: motorola 68000.
you assume that in this alternative world, IBM would've made the same decision regarding the hardware, the wuthor probably don't. in the history we know, IBM chose intel's chips because 8086 and 8088 were direct descendants, and backwards compatible with, of 8080, the chip that ran CP/M originally. and IBM wanted an easy way to run the fairly large CP/M software library from the get-go. the choice fell on microsoft's lap because they came with a CPM clone for 8086 that was a lot cheaper than the true CP/M.
if they had decided that they wanted to run unix code from the get-go, they'd probably have chosen M68k chips, as they were the most affordable chip capable of running unix at the time.
correction: EV6 was licensed for use on athlons. opteron uses hypertransport.
i'm not an expert on this, but according to this, windows so far has been built only for litte endian architectures, or chips that can change endian-ness at boot or on-the-fly. this limits MS's choice of target architectures somewhat.
i'd like to see if they're capable of building a version for big-endian chips like SPARC or latest PPCs.
yeah, servers with windows are like women playing soccer on high heels. nice to look at, until one of them falls and breaks an ankle.
nop.
the only way to drive around in são paulo is what i do. a motorcycle.
Crowds fired upon are always "unarmed civilians". With no real context to the larger situation going on, we have no idea what the real story is. If I'm in a gunship and a guy in a crowd of civilians has a stinger (or the like), the people in that crowd are about to have a really bad day. Sucks, but that's life.
if you're in a gunship and have only that crappy camera to base your decisions, you either get close enough to be able to read the fucking "nikon" on the camera's body, or let the job to the infantry.
gunships were created to attack vehicles, a situation where it's pretty damn hard to confuse a pickup truck with civilians to a tank with a big ass cannon on top. using an apache to engage people on foot from a kilometer away is pretty fucked up.
apple could put a split-keyboard as 2 quarter-circles on the corners of the screen. one for the right thumb, one for the left thumb.
would take some time to get used to, but would allow for lengthier typing without having to place the slab on an awkward position.
this is one (rare) case where microsoft did right, but as usual, at the wrong time. here: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/03/6348.ars
try that with the most popular cars in brasil...
4 cylinder, 1 liter engines with 60 - 65 Hp. those will mostly stall.
because if you don't "fix" what's "not broken", the competion will steamroll you with newer, fancier models and you'll end up broken.
using car analogies, there's nothing "broken" in this year's models from every manufacturer, but if they don't "fix" them, next year they'll be deep in the red, watching the competition take all the market.
sales are driven by innovation. microsoft only innovation was bringing a GUI that you could slap in a generic, gray box, low cost PC. but this is old news. people want other stuff now. things MS can't deliver.
hi neighbor (i'm from brasil). just to add one thing about manual transmissions.
in MT cars, acceleration from a stand still is a lot more fine-grained than in automatics. since you can't simply release the clutch completely without stalling the engine, the driver is required to apply some pressure to the gas, usually enough to put the engine in the maximum torque area of the torque curve, then release the clutch slowly. the more the clutch is released, the more RPMs is transmitted to the wheels. this efectively turns the clutch into a speed governor. you can actually press the gas pedal all the way to the floor and still have precision control of the acceleration and speed.
to have a sudden acceleration in a stick shifter, the driver would have to floor the gas pedal AND release the clutch suddenly. this would cause the car to jump ahead screaming tires (if it's a more powerful model) or stall suddenly.
having two pedals, one as a torque control, the other as governor, goes a long way to ensure safety.
if he wrote a movie based on his experience with The CoS, it'll be one of the funniest comedies ever.
taiwan is an autonomous, rebel, province of china. they don't answer to beijing. the only reason most conuntries don't recognize taiwan as independent is to avoid diplomatic tensions with beijing.
if you hate mainland china's abuses, buy from taiwan. that's money that doesn't go to beijing spend in censorship.
now i'll have to actually WORK ???
this is cruel and unusual punishment. call the human rights conuncil at UN, make them send a strongly worded letter to youtube, this can't go on !!!
well, since we're going the system admin path, i'm a unix SA. i manage the commercial stuff (solaris, AIX, etc.), but most of my skills translate well to linux, so, here we go.
what you're looking for is LDAP.
i remember once that i tried, just for the kicks, to install novell linux on a home desktop after they sent me a package with several DVDs for free. my biggest surprise was when it asked me for an LDAP server... so i said WTF !?! short sotry, i stoped the installation, configured an openLDAP on the host and informed the host IP address as my LDAP server. worked like a charm. after it was installed, i could authenticate my made-up user on the novell guest without any non-root user on the guest's /etc/passwd. that's your solution to enforce passwd changing and central management of users.
now, e-mail and calendar. i don't know how evolution deals with more advanced exchange stuff without a commercial plugin, but if you have can fiddle with your exchange server, configure it to accept IMAP connections.
here where i work, our exchange have IMAP open, so i'm testing the possibility of using KDE's suite KPIM. I already know that invites for meetings and stuff shows up on an IMAP folder as regular mail messages with an iCal file attached, so it's probably usable without having to resort to crossover.
also, if you plan to run MS office, upgrade to 2007. exchange 2003 doesn't work with crossover nor regular wine. 2007 work right. the only problems i had were with activation (it doesn't activate over the net. you have to do it by phone or use a VLK that don't need activation) and attached files show with an OLE error message, you have to go on the menu/save as/save all attachments to get them on the disk before you can open them.
drop me a private message if you need more help, ok ?
there.
you're gonna get a lot of this here. so let's get this out of the way, shall we ?
now, if you REALLY need to run some kinds of windows apps, since your computer probably came with windows already, no need to put it to waste. move it to a virtual machine with sun's excellent virtual box, plus fork some more cash for crossover office.
here at my job, I got fed up with windows, so after the company replaced our old notebooks by newwer dual core machines, i moved to linux, office (i can't get rid of outlook yet.) runs on crossover, some proprietary tools run on windows xp inside virtual box, that i fire up only when needed.
the good thing about virtual machines is that you can make snapshots. create a snapshot of yours right after installing windows. then use it whenever you need, just be carefull not to open anything funny, avoid using a browser inside it. even if all these precautions you get infected, discard the current state and boot the last clean snapshot.
everything else, run on the linux host. this way you don't need an anti-virus any better than microsoft's own.
i never used any virtualization solution on macs, but if vmware's fusion product is anything like the windows/linux counterpart, it certainly have similar functionality.
right here in my room. and in my room mate's room. and in the homes of everybody i know who have CFLs.
never seen any interference on remotes. plus, anything that emits heat also emits infrared radiation. like your body and mine. like regular incandescent bulbs.