Did something like this many years ago... it's amazing how easy it is to come up with a real bomb. My friends and I were hooked on Monopoly, and one friend's brother had tried a variant that didn't work too well, so I figured I'd try it.
First try, code-named "Monolopy", had a second loop inside the first, going the other way, and you changed loops by landing on a corner, or a few new Chance/CommChest cards. Just pasted a heavy piece of paper, hand-drawn, in the center of a regular Monopoly board. Didn't work, with a shorter inner loop the probabilities meant you spent almost all your time on the normal outer loop... back to the drawing board!
Second try, threatened to go on so long we called it "Monotony", was again done on heavy paper by hand and covered an entire 30x30 card table. Used three dice, two for distance and one a different color to select right (even) or left (odd) any time there was a choice... paths wandered every which way, there was even a traffic circle in the center, if you threw "left" you kept going around and around, had to throw "right" to get out. There were stores where you had to buy something unless you had a "Browse" card. There was even a little "Shopping Center" loop (looked suspiciously like the paths on a "Careers" board).
I think we played it about twice and gave up. But I've often had the idea of doing a computer version... it would have to be strictly non-commercial, I hear Parker Brother's lawyers are more vicious than the pieces in Wizard's Chess.
Never even thought about producing anything other than the hand-drawn version, way back then (way, way pre-PC)the task of producing something commercial were far more daunting.
I really don't understand why they broke this thing apart, and then took 4 releases to get back to the original functionality! Apparently they have finally put in (for Linux only, but that's what I use) the ability to click on a link in an e-mail and get to the link in a browser window.
I have never bothered with any of the standalone mail clients, no matter how good some people say they are, because I believe the mail client needs to be integrated with the browser! So much of the e-mail I get has links to web sites that anything else is useless.
Personally, I think Mozilla ought to go BACK to an integrated package (at least as one option)... if there is also demand for separate browser and mail, fine, but I can't believe there isn't any demand for the original all-in-one version. Having them as a single program seems to make so much more sense - click on a link in the e-mail to go to a browser window, then click on a link on the page to send an e-mail reply - why would anyone NOT want them integrated????
Computers are great. Computers are wonderful. Computers are the solution to many problems, but computers are not the solution to every problem - like this one!
The voting machines in use in New Jersey at least through the 1970's (the last time I voted there), and still in use in Dutchess County NY are MECHANICAL. You pull the red handle over, then you push down the little levers to vote, then you push the red handle back and it records the votes and resets the little levers. MECHANICAL. The only thing electrical is a light to make it easier to see when the curtains are closed, and there is nothing electronic at all! There is even a hand crank on some of the models that makes it print out a piece of paper with the votes (some models you have to read the numbers off dials.) Recounts are easy and safe, once you lock the machine the little dials stay right where they were until someone takes positive action to reset the machine for the next election.
The only problem is that they are old, and getting hard to service, hard to get parts for. So everyone is trying to find great wonderous new technology to replace these aging machines.
See where I'm going? What we need is a government initiative to put these extremely safe and uncheatable (but antique) machines back into production. If companies can't make a profit on these machines, a government subsidy on them would be very much in the public interest. Forward to the Past! Let's not be so blinded by computers that we can't see that they had a better solution in 1955, and adopt it!
Way back when I worked for IBM, there were very stringent rules about publishing anything even vaguely computer-related, and I doubt it is any better nowadays. Stuff had to be run through the Publications department, which sent it all over the company for approval/disapproval.
At one time I was working on my Master's degree, and the Professor to whom I submitted a term paper on "LISP on MicroComputers" suggested I submit it to a journal. BUT this was just before the PC came out, so I was using examples like PDP and TRS-80. When the paper got to the division that was preparing to release the PC, they vetoed it instantly.
Some people were so paranoid back then that they would "clear" a term paper through Publications before they dared to give it to the Professor!
I know I'm showing my age here, but back when I was a teenager, virtually all pop music was sold as singles - remember the old 45's - the disks with the BIG hole in the middle? At worst you got the song you wanted and the "B" side was filler, usually the "B" side was not a real hit but not bad ! Albums (LPs) were for stuff like classical music.
If you go back even further, they had a form of "Rights Management" that seems to be resurfacing with these self-destructing downloads - the old 78s were very breakable, and if you wanted to keep the song you would sooner or later have to buy a new copy.
I think the current mania for albums started with the switch to cassette - a 45 single was smaller and cheaper than a LP, but a "cassette single" was sort of an artificial creation. Never did seem to make much sense.
My opinion, these albums (at least most of them) are not "works of art", they are nothing but a damn collection of songs! I hope everyone decides to boycott these idiots (not a problem for me, I don't listen to any of the groups listed, in fact I've never even heard of some of them!).
Without a moment's hesitation, I put "Hamburger: the Motion Picture" at the top of my list. Now, I must admit, I go for FUNNY movies rather than the SCARY ones that some of the other posters seem to like. And for number two on my list, "Stewardess School". Almost nobody has ever heard of these, but I think they are close to the funniest movies ever made.
All the damn AAA games are too big, too complex, and most of all, too focused on GRAPHICS at the expense of Gameplay. All the big studios are spending all that money on trying to make realistic (that is, indistinguishable from live movies or TV) displays.
What ever happened to the good old games? Adventure and Zork had no graphics at all, just text. Rogue/Nethack just use ASCII symbols. The early Wizardry games had stick figures. And I still enjoy going back to old Phantasy Star games on my Sega Genesis, primitive graphics but so what?
We need to stage a revolution, bring back games that can be played on an AVERAGE PC, with a built-in (mobo) video controller, instead of one of these ATGTXYZ Roadrage controllers that cost more than some entire PCs.
Boycott the "AAA" games (not difficult if you're running Linux or anything else other than Windoze!), bring back the garage-shop game developer, don't worry about selling games at Best Buy or those places, market "Indie" games over the Net.
Seeing as how I can't afford to switch over to broadband, I want to see it delayed as long as possible - that way websites will continue to write for us slow modem users and I won't get shut out!
Of course the fact that Verizon keeps calling to peddle DSL, and then tells me they won't support Linux doesn't help much either.
The truly important issue is what will the Longhorn Blue Screen of Death look like? After all, that's what most people will be seeing most of the time!
It might be interesting to publish a list of the questions chosen for this. It would give us more insight into what they're trying to hide, even if we don't get to see the answers.
The FCC did this once before, to force easy-to-use UHF tuners into TV sets. Before that, TVs had tuners only for the VHF channels (2-13), or at best UHF tuners with no detents and vague markings - "UHF" was said to stand for "Ultra Hard to Find". After the change, the UHF tuners had clickstops for all the UHF channels, putting the UHF stations more or less on a par with the VHF stations. (This was in the days when you changed channels by walking over to the TV and physically rotating a knob on the front of the set.)
Actually, I have a WAV file similar to that somewhere. Back when I was still running Windoze I would use "We are Micro$oft. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." as the startup sound.
What the Hell do they have on that page? It crashed my Netscape 4.7 twice! Looks pretty ordinary on Netscape 6.2, though. Well, I am certainly not surprised that a company that would take the trouble to wipe out Ad-Aware would also put some crap on their web page!
First, let me say that I really like libraries, and I go totally bananas for used book stores. And what Amazon is doing is perfectly legal, no question about that. I would not deny Amazon the right to sell used books, any used books at all. But...
I think they are being a bit insensitive - to the authors - by prominently marketing used copies of just-published books. There is a fairly small window of large sales (and another one later when the paperback comes out) which is going to generate most of the royalties. After a few months it won't matter, but having a "buy used" button next to a brand new book does not sound very "author friendly" to me. The Author's Guild is going a bit overboard, but it wouldn't be a bad idea for Amazon to backpedal just a bit on this one.
Some of the spyware manages to sneak in hooks in places neither Ad-aware (highly recommended) nor I have been able to find (you can find and remove the program, but not the hooks). The result is that when you boot up, it hangs temporarily with a window asking for a path to, for example, "ezulaMain.exe" (that is one of the more obnoxious ones).
My solution has been to compile a small Hello-World type program to an exe file. Then when I run into one of these, I make a copy of the exe file and rename it to whatever seems to be needed - if it gets called, a window pops up on the screen, then vanishes almost instantly, much less hassle.
I also have a copy of this called "iexplore.exe" to take care of any programs that try to invoke Internut Exploder... what was that about you couldn't remove IE from Windoze ???
OK. I just went over there and selected "1". Then I clicked submit-back-submit-back-... a dizen or so times. Man, like they don't even seem to be TRYING to stop you from stuffing the ballot box!
Sorry, most of those people out there are not using Windows by choice. They are using it because they have no choice!.
The consumers walk into a store and every damn computer has Windows on it by His Majesty Bill's Imperial Edict. Only those who are both interested in computers as computers (as opposed to what you can do with them), and who are technically skilled, really have a choice.
And at work... well, who really gets a choice there? A few technically inept top managers say "Windows" and everyone jumps. I am working on an embedded Linux project and do that work on a Linux Desktop, but I still need a Windows box to do my weekly timesheet, and to deal with various MS Office documents (Star Office 5.2 will not handle some of them). I'd love to ditch the Windows box, but my boss has made it very clear that Linux is only for the specific project, and I must use Windows for everything else, so I do (except maybe a few things I can keep "under the radar"...).
I'm not going to claim that Linux could eradicate Windows from the desktop (I'd love to see it but I'm being realistic), but if people had a real choice I think you would see a lot more people using it.
I ran into a beaut with one company I worked for. They expected me to pay for travel expenses (on my card, since I traveled so little it wasn't worth getting a "Company" card). But unlike other companies I had worked for, they even expected me to put the air fare ($1100) on my card (when I worked for IBM, they always did the big predictable stuff like air fare up front). Unfortunately their slow reimbursement cycle and bad timing put the $1100 on my AmEx before I had the money (AmEx is pretty good about those things and took off the late charges).
Anyway, the next time they wanted me to fly out to the company HQ I just told them I couldn't handle the $1100 on my card, and they would have to set up the air fare some other way (I did indicate I could handle hotel and meals). I think the ticket ended up being charged to my manager's "Corporate" card!
I really didn't care much, because by then I was already sending out resumes and planning to bail out ASAP.
What is the big deal about Photoshop (other than it is politically correct because everybody uses it? I have heard (of course we know that leaves a teeny bit of room for error) that The GIMP will do almost everything Photoshop will - the exception usually cited is CMYK separations, do you really need those for a college graphics class? Is there anything really critical (for a student) missing?
It seems to me that one highly likely reason for the decrease of piracy is simply the huge increase in both quantity and quality of Free/Open Source software. Why either buy or pirate a commercial product when the Web is overflowing with GPL'd goodies?
I had a chance to try Win2K as a replacement for the NT system I was using. First time it installed OK, but then I messed up the machine (with something that was NOT Windows fault) and had to re-install. This time I got a VERY CONSISTENT BSOD DURING (in fact very early in) THE INSTALL!
Turned out that between the 2 installs I had plugged an old Brother printer into the parallel port, and THAT was crashing the Win2K install. Unplugging the printer fixed the problem and the install went OK.
Now... THIS is what YOU call "consistent and stable"?
Unfortunately, there was something in the news just the other day... a drunk driver crashed a VW into a phone pole, and now the family of some victim is suing VW for not making the car safe enough to withstand the crash!
Has anyone suggested yet that we sue all those hard-drive makers who provide the storage for all those illegal files??
So Freedom brand comes out with an almost identical sticker saying "Approved by AMPA" and Joe Sixpack, who really has no clue about either the MPAA or the bogus AMPA, buys the cheaper one. They can always drum up some bogus organization and find some good initials for it (why do you think Micro$quish calls their vigilante group the "BSA"? It reminds people of the Boy Scouts!).
Right on!! Damned browser snobs that won't even let you LOOK at their page without the RIGHT browser! I suggest they take their Cascading Style Sheets and CSStuff Them Where the SUN Don't Shine. Hey, I have Netscape 6.2 on this machine... so why am I running 4.79? Because 6.2 runs like molasses in Antarctica! I suppose I could try Opera, but they didn't mention that as a "acceptable" choice so it probably wouldn't work (although it has the nice feature that it can lie about its identity). Of course Internut Exploder isn't even a choice, it doesn't run too well on this Linux box...
Hey, guys, get with it. I don't give a SH*T about your "gaming experience", I just want to read the article.
AIX doen't have a heck of a lot that Linux doesn't. Journaling file system is almost ready on Linux. The SMIT tool can probably be replaced by Linuxconf with a little tweaking. I haven't actually seen LVM on Linux, so I don't know how good it is, AIX does use it heavily. And I have not heard of AFS (sort of a super, high-security version of NFS for those unfamiliar with it) for Linux; IBM depends very heavily on AFS and if there isn't one, it would need to be ported (or it could be there and I just haven't heard of it).
And I know we're mostly talking about servers here, but I would just like to state that on the desktop, compared to Linux's Gnome and KDE, AIX just plain sucks!
Just for the record, my last AIX work was last winter on a contract job at IBM, so I am quite familiar with AIX.
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Did something like this many years ago ... it's amazing how easy it is to come up with a real bomb. My friends and I were hooked on Monopoly, and one friend's brother had tried a variant that didn't work too well, so I figured I'd try it.
... back to the drawing board!
... paths wandered every which way, there was even a traffic circle in the center, if you threw "left" you kept going around and around, had to throw "right" to get out. There were stores where you had to buy something unless you had a "Browse" card. There was even a little "Shopping Center" loop (looked suspiciously like the paths on a "Careers" board).
... it would have to be strictly non-commercial, I hear Parker Brother's lawyers are more vicious than the pieces in Wizard's Chess.
First try, code-named "Monolopy", had a second loop inside the first, going the other way, and you changed loops by landing on a corner, or a few new Chance/CommChest cards. Just pasted a heavy piece of paper, hand-drawn, in the center of a regular Monopoly board. Didn't work, with a shorter inner loop the probabilities meant you spent almost all your time on the normal outer loop
Second try, threatened to go on so long we called it "Monotony", was again done on heavy paper by hand and covered an entire 30x30 card table. Used three dice, two for distance and one a different color to select right (even) or left (odd) any time there was a choice
I think we played it about twice and gave up. But I've often had the idea of doing a computer version
Never even thought about producing anything other than the hand-drawn version, way back then (way, way pre-PC)the task of producing something commercial were far more daunting.
I really don't understand why they broke this thing apart, and then took 4 releases to get back to the original functionality! Apparently they have finally put in (for Linux only, but that's what I use) the ability to click on a link in an e-mail and get to the link in a browser window.
... if there is also demand for separate browser and mail, fine, but I can't believe there isn't any demand for the original all-in-one version. Having them as a single program seems to make so much more sense - click on a link in the e-mail to go to a browser window, then click on a link on the page to send an e-mail reply - why would anyone NOT want them integrated????
I have never bothered with any of the standalone mail clients, no matter how good some people say they are, because I believe the mail client needs to be integrated with the browser! So much of the e-mail I get has links to web sites that anything else is useless.
Personally, I think Mozilla ought to go BACK to an integrated package (at least as one option)
Computers are great. Computers are wonderful. Computers are the solution to many problems, but computers are not the solution to every problem - like this one!
The voting machines in use in New Jersey at least through the 1970's (the last time I voted there), and still in use in Dutchess County NY are MECHANICAL. You pull the red handle over, then you push down the little levers to vote, then you push the red handle back and it records the votes and resets the little levers. MECHANICAL. The only thing electrical is a light to make it easier to see when the curtains are closed, and there is nothing electronic at all! There is even a hand crank on some of the models that makes it print out a piece of paper with the votes (some models you have to read the numbers off dials.) Recounts are easy and safe, once you lock the machine the little dials stay right where they were until someone takes positive action to reset the machine for the next election.
The only problem is that they are old, and getting hard to service, hard to get parts for. So everyone is trying to find great wonderous new technology to replace these aging machines.
See where I'm going? What we need is a government initiative to put these extremely safe and uncheatable (but antique) machines back into production. If companies can't make a profit on these machines, a government subsidy on them would be very much in the public interest. Forward to the Past! Let's not be so blinded by computers that we can't see that they had a better solution in 1955, and adopt it!
Way back when I worked for IBM, there were very stringent rules about publishing anything even vaguely computer-related, and I doubt it is any better nowadays. Stuff had to be run through the Publications department, which sent it all over the company for approval/disapproval.
At one time I was working on my Master's degree, and the Professor to whom I submitted a term paper on "LISP on MicroComputers" suggested I submit it to a journal. BUT this was just before the PC came out, so I was using examples like PDP and TRS-80. When the paper got to the division that was preparing to release the PC, they vetoed it instantly.
Some people were so paranoid back then that they would "clear" a term paper through Publications before they dared to give it to the Professor!
So the answer is, "Yes, they can do that."
I know I'm showing my age here, but back when I was a teenager, virtually all pop music was sold as singles - remember the old 45's - the disks with the BIG hole in the middle? At worst you got the song you wanted and the "B" side was filler, usually the "B" side was not a real hit but not bad ! Albums (LPs) were for stuff like classical music.
If you go back even further, they had a form of "Rights Management" that seems to be resurfacing with these self-destructing downloads - the old 78s were very breakable, and if you wanted to keep the song you would sooner or later have to buy a new copy.
I think the current mania for albums started with the switch to cassette - a 45 single was smaller and cheaper than a LP, but a "cassette single" was sort of an artificial creation. Never did seem to make much sense.
My opinion, these albums (at least most of them) are not "works of art", they are nothing but a damn collection of songs! I hope everyone decides to boycott these idiots (not a problem for me, I don't listen to any of the groups listed, in fact I've never even heard of some of them!).
Without a moment's hesitation, I put "Hamburger: the Motion Picture" at the top of my list. Now, I must admit, I go for FUNNY movies rather than the SCARY ones that some of the other posters seem to like. And for number two on my list, "Stewardess School". Almost nobody has ever heard of these, but I think they are close to the funniest movies ever made.
All the damn AAA games are too big, too complex, and most of all, too focused on GRAPHICS at the expense of Gameplay. All the big studios are spending all that money on trying to make realistic (that is, indistinguishable from live movies or TV) displays.
What ever happened to the good old games? Adventure and Zork had no graphics at all, just text. Rogue/Nethack just use ASCII symbols. The early Wizardry games had stick figures. And I still enjoy going back to old Phantasy Star games on my Sega Genesis, primitive graphics but so what?
We need to stage a revolution, bring back games that can be played on an AVERAGE PC, with a built-in (mobo) video controller, instead of one of these ATGTXYZ Roadrage controllers that cost more than some entire PCs.
Boycott the "AAA" games (not difficult if you're running Linux or anything else other than Windoze!), bring back the garage-shop game developer, don't worry about selling games at Best Buy or those places, market "Indie" games over the Net.
Seeing as how I can't afford to switch over to broadband, I want to see it delayed as long as possible - that way websites will continue to write for us slow modem users and I won't get shut out!
Of course the fact that Verizon keeps calling to peddle DSL, and then tells me they won't support Linux doesn't help much either.
The truly important issue is what will the Longhorn Blue Screen of Death look like? After all, that's what most people will be seeing most of the time!
It might be interesting to publish a list of the questions chosen for this. It would give us more insight into what they're trying to hide, even if we don't get to see the answers.
The FCC did this once before, to force easy-to-use UHF tuners into TV sets. Before that, TVs had tuners only for the VHF channels (2-13), or at best UHF tuners with no detents and vague markings - "UHF" was said to stand for "Ultra Hard to Find". After the change, the UHF tuners had clickstops for all the UHF channels, putting the UHF stations more or less on a par with the VHF stations. (This was in the days when you changed channels by walking over to the TV and physically rotating a knob on the front of the set.)
So there is some precedent, like it or not.
Actually, I have a WAV file similar to that somewhere. Back when I was still running Windoze I would use "We are Micro$oft. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." as the startup sound.
What the Hell do they have on that page? It crashed my Netscape 4.7 twice! Looks pretty ordinary on Netscape 6.2, though. Well, I am certainly not surprised that a company that would take the trouble to wipe out Ad-Aware would also put some crap on their web page!
First, let me say that I really like libraries, and I go totally bananas for used book stores. And what Amazon is doing is perfectly legal, no question about that. I would not deny Amazon the right to sell used books, any used books at all. But ...
I think they are being a bit insensitive - to the authors - by prominently marketing used copies of just-published books. There is a fairly small window of large sales (and another one later when the paperback comes out) which is going to generate most of the royalties. After a few months it won't matter, but having a "buy used" button next to a brand new book does not sound very "author friendly" to me. The Author's Guild is going a bit overboard, but it wouldn't be a bad idea for Amazon to backpedal just a bit on this one.
So what was thie term they're throwing around?
Windows Condemned Longhorn
No wonder it smells like 500 pounds of rotten meat!
Some of the spyware manages to sneak in hooks in places neither Ad-aware (highly recommended) nor I have been able to find (you can find and remove the program, but not the hooks). The result is that when you boot up, it hangs temporarily with a window asking for a path to, for example, "ezulaMain.exe" (that is one of the more obnoxious ones).
... what was that about you couldn't remove IE from Windoze ???
My solution has been to compile a small Hello-World type program to an exe file. Then when I run into one of these, I make a copy of the exe file and rename it to whatever seems to be needed - if it gets called, a window pops up on the screen, then vanishes almost instantly, much less hassle.
I also have a copy of this called "iexplore.exe" to take care of any programs that try to invoke Internut Exploder
OK. I just went over there and selected "1". Then I clicked submit-back-submit-back-... a dizen or so times. Man, like they don't even seem to be TRYING to stop you from stuffing the ballot box!
Sorry, most of those people out there are not using Windows by choice. They are using it because they have no choice!.
... well, who really gets a choice there? A few technically inept top managers say "Windows" and everyone jumps. I am working on an embedded Linux project and do that work on a Linux Desktop, but I still need a Windows box to do my weekly timesheet, and to deal with various MS Office documents (Star Office 5.2 will not handle some of them). I'd love to ditch the Windows box, but my boss has made it very clear that Linux is only for the specific project, and I must use Windows for everything else, so I do (except maybe a few things I can keep "under the radar" ...).
The consumers walk into a store and every damn computer has Windows on it by His Majesty Bill's Imperial Edict. Only those who are both interested in computers as computers (as opposed to what you can do with them), and who are technically skilled, really have a choice.
And at work
I'm not going to claim that Linux could eradicate Windows from the desktop (I'd love to see it but I'm being realistic), but if people had a real choice I think you would see a lot more people using it.
I ran into a beaut with one company I worked for. They expected me to pay for travel expenses (on my card, since I traveled so little it wasn't worth getting a "Company" card). But unlike other companies I had worked for, they even expected me to put the air fare ($1100) on my card (when I worked for IBM, they always did the big predictable stuff like air fare up front). Unfortunately their slow reimbursement cycle and bad timing put the $1100 on my AmEx before I had the money (AmEx is pretty good about those things and took off the late charges).
Anyway, the next time they wanted me to fly out to the company HQ I just told them I couldn't handle the $1100 on my card, and they would have to set up the air fare some other way (I did indicate I could handle hotel and meals). I think the ticket ended up being charged to my manager's "Corporate" card!
I really didn't care much, because by then I was already sending out resumes and planning to bail out ASAP.
What is the big deal about Photoshop (other than it is politically correct because everybody uses it? I have heard (of course we know that leaves a teeny bit of room for error) that The GIMP will do almost everything Photoshop will - the exception usually cited is CMYK separations, do you really need those for a college graphics class? Is there anything really critical (for a student) missing?
It seems to me that one highly likely reason for the decrease of piracy is simply the huge increase in both quantity and quality of Free/Open Source software. Why either buy or pirate a commercial product when the Web is overflowing with GPL'd goodies?
I had a chance to try Win2K as a replacement for the NT system I was using. First time it installed OK, but then I messed up the machine (with something that was NOT Windows fault) and had to re-install. This time I got a VERY CONSISTENT BSOD DURING (in fact very early in) THE INSTALL!
... THIS is what YOU call "consistent and stable"?
Turned out that between the 2 installs I had plugged an old Brother printer into the parallel port, and THAT was crashing the Win2K install. Unplugging the printer fixed the problem and the install went OK.
Now
Unfortunately, there was something in the news just the other day ... a drunk driver crashed a VW into a phone pole, and now the family of some victim is suing VW for not making the car safe enough to withstand the crash!
Has anyone suggested yet that we sue all those hard-drive makers who provide the storage for all those illegal files??
So Freedom brand comes out with an almost identical sticker saying "Approved by AMPA" and Joe Sixpack, who really has no clue about either the MPAA or the bogus AMPA, buys the cheaper one. They can always drum up some bogus organization and find some good initials for it (why do you think Micro$quish calls their vigilante group the "BSA"? It reminds people of the Boy Scouts!).
Right on!! Damned browser snobs that won't even let you LOOK at their page without the RIGHT browser! I suggest they take their Cascading Style Sheets and CSStuff Them Where the SUN Don't Shine. ... so why am I running 4.79? Because 6.2 runs like molasses in Antarctica! I suppose I could try Opera, but they didn't mention that as a "acceptable" choice so it probably wouldn't work (although it has the nice feature that it can lie about its identity). Of course Internut Exploder isn't even a choice, it doesn't run too well on this Linux box ...
Hey, I have Netscape 6.2 on this machine
Hey, guys, get with it. I don't give a SH*T about your "gaming experience", I just want to read the article.
AIX doen't have a heck of a lot that Linux doesn't. Journaling file system is almost ready on Linux. The SMIT tool can probably be replaced by Linuxconf with a little tweaking. I haven't actually seen LVM on Linux, so I don't know how good it is, AIX does use it heavily. And I have not heard of AFS (sort of a super, high-security version of NFS for those unfamiliar with it) for Linux; IBM depends very heavily on AFS and if there isn't one, it would need to be ported (or it could be there and I just haven't heard of it).
And I know we're mostly talking about servers here, but I would just like to state that on the desktop, compared to Linux's Gnome and KDE, AIX just plain sucks!
Just for the record, my last AIX work was last winter on a contract job at IBM, so I am quite familiar with AIX.