The funny thing is they say that it's because their search results have dropped. "At the root of the issue appears to internet search results. Tiger Direct contends that Apple's use of the name has adversely affected its ranking amongst the Internet's largest search engines, Google and Yahoo, bumping the company from its usual spot in the first three results. "
yet google report tiger direct in the #2 spot while apple's macos x page is 2 spots down at #4. Odd eh?
You'd think so wouldn't you. When i first saw that done I thought it looked weird too. A company I used to work for gave shell accounts to any technical employee that wanted one on their 'testing' server. Most people had never learned linux before and therefore didn't really know what to do. The real admin of the server did that, and the newbs ate it up. I initially thought it was a bad idea because it just showed the windows people that.exe's ran on linux (that was my thought anyway) but it proved to be sucessful.
*nix newbs in our department were soon using that server for all manner of testing.
The company by the way was mindspring, it's not like it was some podunk place.:-)
Trust me, it's not nonsense, it actually works very well indeed.
I'd also recomend creating a file called 'README.EXE' and putting a copy in their homedir and a copy somewhere on PATH. chmod +x and have the file jsut contain
#!/bin/bash
echo"tutorial blah blah blah
ls does blah blah blah
to find more info use man blah blah blah
I think you get the idea.
most newb are familiar with the idea that.exe means something you can run, and therefore the idea of typing 'README.EXE' to view the howto would not be all that alien to them.
that reminds me of the time I was trying to install win98 and I was stuck in that hellish fdisk circle "cannot create primary without extended blah blah" and "cannot create extended without primary blah blah", i popped in a mandrake cd formatted the entire disk as fat32, and rebooted to continue my win98 install (no, it wasn't for *my* computer it was...a friends).
I second the progress bar thingy. Another amazing tool is the disk mounter. I successfully audited our windows shares on our network with nothing more than that. I just let scan the network and find all the windows shares, I then had it mount any it could, then went over to those systems and put passwords on the shares.
Ya I don't see why they wouldn't have seen Linux as the successor. The current SCO is different than the SCO of 2001, and at the time was known as Caldera, and made.....LINUX! So of course that's what they thought was going to be the successor.
I wonder what the old owners and engineers over Santa Cruz are thinking. Are they thinking "Man, those assclowns are dragging my years of hard work through the trash!" or are they thinking "What's that you say? SCO is suing someone else? So what! I told you not to interupt me when I'm rolling naked in my cash!"
I see your point, but disagree with you. My High School electronics teacher was teaching us robotics. He essentially was working on his own projects but teaching us what to do why and how and having us do the dirty work. I learned enough in my first year to know I wanted to be an EE. I of course decided to major in alcohol and eventually dropped out to work in IT (hmmm correlation there?).
I don't remember enough of what we did to be of any use to the discussion though. I graduated in '93. I DO remember that we had 2 386 motherboards ( I remember thinking "I will NEVER need more power than that"), and some prepackaged gear sets. We could program in several thousand instructions for the Robot to follow. Sadly, it was a 2 year long project and I graduated before I could see the thing in action, but it can and has been done before.
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I just went to the page for the first time after reading this, and it still says 2003. I have never been to the site before. Just to be sure (since I do go through a transparent squid proxy) I also ssh'd to the FTP server (on it's own DSL line, and ran lynx. Here's the last line: ?1997 - 2003 Jump Domain, LLC. All rights reserved.
Ya I still remember trying to get InterNic to respond to anything. Getting a new domain used to be a HUGE process, now I can get a new one with a few click over at http://namecheap.org/ (shameless plug).
If your domains are lapsing just go renew them at namecheap.
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I'm also addicted to putting on clothes, showering, brushing my teeth, and scratching my balls. I won't go 3 days without doing any of those.
It will certainly fare better than the summer of Sam.
Get a new mouse ;)
A touch off-topic but...Just for clicks I tested middle-click in safari and sure enough it opened a new tab. nice
Actually I think this will be for that long-awaited "toothing" thing. ;)
Bingo. Well said. OpenBSD runs on x86, does it have this flaw?
The funny thing is they say that it's because their search results have dropped. "At the root of the issue appears to internet search results. Tiger Direct contends that Apple's use of the name has adversely affected its ranking amongst the Internet's largest search engines, Google and Yahoo, bumping the company from its usual spot in the first three results. "
yet google report tiger direct in the #2 spot while apple's macos x page is 2 spots down at #4. Odd eh?
You'd think so wouldn't you. When i first saw that done I thought it looked weird too. A company I used to work for gave shell accounts to any technical employee that wanted one on their 'testing' server. Most people had never learned linux before and therefore didn't really know what to do. The real admin of the server did that, and the newbs ate it up. I initially thought it was a bad idea because it just showed the windows people that .exe's ran on linux (that was my thought anyway) but it proved to be sucessful.
:-)
*nix newbs in our department were soon using that server for all manner of testing.
The company by the way was mindspring, it's not like it was some podunk place.
Trust me, it's not nonsense, it actually works very well indeed.
I'd also recomend creating a file called 'README.EXE' and putting a copy in their homedir and a copy somewhere on PATH. chmod +x and have the file jsut contain
.exe means something you can run, and therefore the idea of typing 'README.EXE' to view the howto would not be all that alien to them.
#!/bin/bash
echo"tutorial blah blah blah
ls does blah blah blah
to find more info use man blah blah blah
I think you get the idea.
most newb are familiar with the idea that
I wonder when they implement offline messaging like ICQ does.
Sounds like it might be cool. But not as cool as Slashdot Radio was.
dependency hell? you didn't use urpmi did you? *sigh* ;)
that reminds me of the time I was trying to install win98 and I was stuck in that hellish fdisk circle "cannot create primary without extended blah blah" and "cannot create extended without primary blah blah", i popped in a mandrake cd formatted the entire disk as fat32, and rebooted to continue my win98 install (no, it wasn't for *my* computer it was...a friends).
I second the progress bar thingy. Another amazing tool is the disk mounter. I successfully audited our windows shares on our network with nothing more than that. I just let scan the network and find all the windows shares, I then had it mount any it could, then went over to those systems and put passwords on the shares.
What works more often than that is 'vi /etc/cups.printers.conf' :-p
Or Mandriva as it's called now. Their printer admin GUI is peaches. :-) Maybe since it's GPL'd the CUPS team can just grab it from the latest cooker?
Ya I don't see why they wouldn't have seen Linux as the successor. The current SCO is different than the SCO of 2001, and at the time was known as Caldera, and made.....LINUX! So of course that's what they thought was going to be the successor.
I wonder what the old owners and engineers over Santa Cruz are thinking. Are they thinking "Man, those assclowns are dragging my years of hard work through the trash!" or are they thinking "What's that you say? SCO is suing someone else? So what! I told you not to interupt me when I'm rolling naked in my cash!"
I see your point, but disagree with you. My High School electronics teacher was teaching us robotics. He essentially was working on his own projects but teaching us what to do why and how and having us do the dirty work. I learned enough in my first year to know I wanted to be an EE. I of course decided to major in alcohol and eventually dropped out to work in IT (hmmm correlation there?).
I don't remember enough of what we did to be of any use to the discussion though. I graduated in '93. I DO remember that we had 2 386 motherboards ( I remember thinking "I will NEVER need more power than that"), and some prepackaged gear sets. We could program in several thousand instructions for the Robot to follow. Sadly, it was a 2 year long project and I graduated before I could see the thing in action, but it can and has been done before.
Do you have a place to store these? Ive been messing around with it and have a funky southern rock r&b-ish version complete with a horn section. :-p
Not it's not OSS.
.dmg.
Here's the EULA when you try tomount the
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I like this one :-)
They don't need fancy CGI for that. Monty Python had a knight with 3 heads and 2 arms :-)
I just went to the page for the first time after reading this, and it still says 2003. I have never been to the site before. Just to be sure (since I do go through a transparent squid proxy) I also ssh'd to the FTP server (on it's own DSL line, and ran lynx. Here's the last line:
?1997 - 2003 Jump Domain, LLC. All rights reserved.
I dunno what that guy was talking about.
hrmm it'd be funny to re-register jumpdomain.com with another registrar wouldn't it? :-P
Ya I still remember trying to get InterNic to respond to anything. Getting a new domain used to be a HUGE process, now I can get a new one with a few click over at http://namecheap.org/ (shameless plug).
If your domains are lapsing just go renew them at namecheap.