That could be. I get this information from teachers and parents around the city.
The claim is that some of these kids on the east could die if anyone brought nuts to school at all, or if you eat them before you go yourself. Whether this is just an overreaction or the truth, I can't say for sure.
My information is also a couple years old. There was some talk that all schools would eventually go this route. These allergies seem to be getting much more common and much more severe than they used to be for whatever reason.
It'd just be interesting to know whether there are actually more allergies in certain regions (or whether they're just more vocal in some regions), and why that is. It would be worth a quick study if nothing else, even if it turned out that it was just another case of people being stupid about the imaginary east/west divide in this city.
An interesting study in allergies would by the city of Saskatoon, Canada. On the more rich east side of the city, there are schools where your kids are not allowed to even eat nuts before they go to school in the morning. Every one of these schools now has at least one kid that could die if someone brings a peanut in the building.
Whereas in the core neighborhoods on the west side of the river, these schools still do not have to implement a nut-free zone, since these kids just don't have the allergies. It is amazing how there really isn't an exception to this so far, and we have over 50 schools for sample size.
Of course it is not impossible to develop allergies even when you're a farm kid. My brother proved that, as he's allergic to cats, dust, hay, etc - basically everything he encountered his entire youth. Though I suppose he may have developed even worse allergies if he grew up in suburbia.
Others have pointed out the flaws in using w3schools for stats.
I'll point out one other problem with the logic, which is the fact that using your arguments, they should just drop Linux instead, which is probably a lot more work to code for than another Windows variant, and would mean that 96.7% of users are unaffected.
Heck, why should anyone port anything beyond the Windows world, when 93.1% of users in your sample size use an OS based on Win32?
Then again, the flaw in my own logic is that the percentages for win98 are bound to be falling, whereas Linux and Mac appear to be on the rise.
It is nowhere near the most stable. However, it can be more secure, since it doesn't have all of those NT network services that worms can exploit with no user intervention.
For those of us who don't open up random emails and visit random websites, it is probably easier to stay virus and worm free on Win98.
I would imagine that OpenOffice.org is actually slower at importing and saving to the MS format than ODF, which would be a more fair comparison that using a different suite entirely.
However it is also possible that MS Office with the ODF filter is slower with ODF documents than with the MS format. So not much can be proven either way.
Maybe they should see how fast documents open up in KWord or AbiWord for a more fair comparison of formats. KWord might open ODF faster than any of the alternatives. AbiWord doesn't use either format as a native format, so it should be more "neutral". The quality of the filter code will probably still be as bigger factor than the document format itself though.
It is really sad to see such nonsense studies and clutching at straws going on, but I guess it is nothing new. Nobody is excited about MS anymore, including most of their own employees. Compare that with the atmosphere around Apple and Google, where both the employees and users anxiously anticipate the next release. MS is doomed to become as big and boring as IBM it seems.
The fact that US currency is tanking doesn't help the pricing in other markets either. It seems that companies haven't been quite following the exchange rate when pricing items in Europe.
Canadians have know the benefit of having a lower currency for a number of years (99c price point for iTunes in both CanD and USD benefits Canada). However, that may change, as the Canadian dollar starts approaching parity with the USD.
Actually, that could be a good enough reason for them to release it GPL, and have a dual license option for some other Sun licenses.
However, I think they are more worried about Eclipse than MS at this point, and I doubt Eclipse would shy away from forking a GPL Java. Sun doesn't want the source of forks to be available for them to use - they want no forks to begin with. They are control freaks when it comes to their projects.
Really it'll come down to IBM and Sun working out some arrangement where the code for Java is available under an OSI license, but where Sun still has some sort of the control it desires. Given that Java is developoment is partly a community process anyhow, you'd think there would be some way they could attain that.
And since Linux runs on the iPod, it should be a pretty easy argument to win.
The iPod can be used as a somewhat general purpose portable computer. It may not be a good computer, but it does have a processor and some inputs/outputs, plus a general purpose OS. I wonder if Apple would be willing to show Linux on the iPod in court, or if it'd even help them.
Considering that Apple has been working on a database file system (like WinFS, except that it'll actually be released), I'm not sure where ZFS fits in here. Maybe on XServe and XServe RAID, or just as another alternative besides HFS+ and UFS I suppose. But I don't think the dbfs will be based on ZFS.
Too bad Apple isn't making new products with Hypertransport anymore, now that they're using Intel instead of the G5 or AMD. It would be interesting to have a rack of XServe machines that just do plug-and-play clustering via a Hypertransport port. Unless they go with AMD in the XServe (which actually wouldn't make much sense for a 1U single/dual processor unit), then I don't think we'll see anything like this.
Yes, it isn't intended for external CPUs, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be possible. It would depend on what the OS and motherboard could support. The earlier article about the FPGA that plugged into the Opteron's motherboard slot is an example of what could now be done outside the case, if there was demand for it.
Setting up a non-profit company in Canada is trivial. Getting it set up so that you can give charitable tax receipts is another thing completely.
Theo really should set up the OpenBSD foundation instead of having cheques go to himself. Even if it isn't set up to give out tax receipts to donors, it would give people a bit more assurance that the money is going towards OpenBSD.
NumlockX enabled on startup is simply a good idea and a cheap and trivial fix.
Its a terrible idea on a laptop.
It is also terrible if you have a server "space-saver" type keyboard. A lot of distros turn it on by default, which means you have to disable it for every machine you switch to on your KVM. I quickly disabled this "feature" on all of the machines in this rack.
However it is handy for most desktops and workstations, which is Ubuntu's primary usage area besides laptops.
I still don't understand what makes apt-get years ahead of something like urpmi. Both seem to just work, and do about the same sort of thing. I don't have problems with either.
I have a feeling that most of the people who keep mouthing off about how.deb is so superior to.rpm haven't tried anything like urpmi, and are stuck with the impressions of RPM hell from many years back.
At one time apt-get was revolutionary. Now everyone has either copied its ideas (yum, urpmi, etc) or ported it to their system (or sometimes both). Some RPM based distros have used apt-get for package management for a number of years.
I imagine Ubuntu may have other benefits though, so I do intend to try it out at some point.
I believe that was done on purpose, to show that he wasn't just replacing the frames in his video. Plus he could move around and show us the back of the machine. That video left little room for forgery, especially since it showed a change in resolution on the screen, and a return from sleep mode, that would be very hard to fake.
Or it could just be the coffee, as another poster has already metioned.
Your CIO or Director of IT may be more worried about cleartext passwords than lawsuits, but I'm betting that most CEOs would be more worried about the word "lawsuit" than some computer talk about "cleartext passwords".
A couple truths are very relevant:
1. Companies will go to great lengths to avoid being sued. 2. Lawyers run the world.
However I'm not quite sure why Debian's policy is such a hinderance to you if you're not worried about the legality. Just compile netatalk with OpenSSSL yourself, just like every other distro is doing. Or use 'alien' to bring in another distro's package. Or use another distro. That is one benefit of open source - you can thumb your nose at the law all you want if the code is available and you aren't worried about the consequences. You don't have such options with proprietary code.
I would not be surprised if internet radio over Wi-Max ends up seriously hurting XM and Sirius. Right now they have a stranglehold on the market due to the cost of entry (satelite systems). However Wi-Max enabled car "radios" open up a whole new realm of possibilities, for both competing subscription channels and free alternatives.
Instead of paying $X for access to a whole bunch of stations, you could instead pay smaller amounts for the stations you actually want to listen to. The WiMax providers themselves would have an instant advantage here too - combining QoS and multicast, they would be able to provide a much more reliable service than 3rd party internet stations.
The struggle between ISPs and service providers for network control will most certainly be extended to the airwaves. Much to the detriment of comsumers.
All the EU has asked for the APIs in Windows to be documented and available to other developers. MS continues to try doing everything but providing what the EU is actually asking for.
If MS has a problem with that, they can take their business elsewhere...
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That could be. I get this information from teachers and parents around the city.
The claim is that some of these kids on the east could die if anyone brought nuts to school at all, or if you eat them before you go yourself. Whether this is just an overreaction or the truth, I can't say for sure.
My information is also a couple years old. There was some talk that all schools would eventually go this route. These allergies seem to be getting much more common and much more severe than they used to be for whatever reason.
It'd just be interesting to know whether there are actually more allergies in certain regions (or whether they're just more vocal in some regions), and why that is. It would be worth a quick study if nothing else, even if it turned out that it was just another case of people being stupid about the imaginary east/west divide in this city.
An interesting study in allergies would by the city of Saskatoon, Canada. On the more rich east side of the city, there are schools where your kids are not allowed to even eat nuts before they go to school in the morning. Every one of these schools now has at least one kid that could die if someone brings a peanut in the building.
Whereas in the core neighborhoods on the west side of the river, these schools still do not have to implement a nut-free zone, since these kids just don't have the allergies. It is amazing how there really isn't an exception to this so far, and we have over 50 schools for sample size.
Of course it is not impossible to develop allergies even when you're a farm kid. My brother proved that, as he's allergic to cats, dust, hay, etc - basically everything he encountered his entire youth. Though I suppose he may have developed even worse allergies if he grew up in suburbia.
> It was getting too hard to support both the new OS and those old and insecure OSs.
Yeah, best to stick to supporting those new and insecure OSs instead.
Others have pointed out the flaws in using w3schools for stats.
I'll point out one other problem with the logic, which is the fact that using your arguments, they should just drop Linux instead, which is probably a lot more work to code for than another Windows variant, and would mean that 96.7% of users are unaffected.
Heck, why should anyone port anything beyond the Windows world, when 93.1% of users in your sample size use an OS based on Win32?
Then again, the flaw in my own logic is that the percentages for win98 are bound to be falling, whereas Linux and Mac appear to be on the rise.
It is nowhere near the most stable. However, it can be more secure, since it doesn't have all of those NT network services that worms can exploit with no user intervention.
For those of us who don't open up random emails and visit random websites, it is probably easier to stay virus and worm free on Win98.
/goes back to 'fixing' web page so it views ok in IE.
Yeah, the same way we 'fix' pets.
Or perhaps the open source PDF Creator, available for download on their sourceforge page.
The program simply installs a fake printer that creates PDFs. So any Windows program that can print can also export to PDF.
I would imagine that OpenOffice.org is actually slower at importing and saving to the MS format than ODF, which would be a more fair comparison that using a different suite entirely.
However it is also possible that MS Office with the ODF filter is slower with ODF documents than with the MS format. So not much can be proven either way.
Maybe they should see how fast documents open up in KWord or AbiWord for a more fair comparison of formats. KWord might open ODF faster than any of the alternatives. AbiWord doesn't use either format as a native format, so it should be more "neutral". The quality of the filter code will probably still be as bigger factor than the document format itself though.
It is really sad to see such nonsense studies and clutching at straws going on, but I guess it is nothing new. Nobody is excited about MS anymore, including most of their own employees. Compare that with the atmosphere around Apple and Google, where both the employees and users anxiously anticipate the next release. MS is doomed to become as big and boring as IBM it seems.
The fact that US currency is tanking doesn't help the pricing in other markets either. It seems that companies haven't been quite following the exchange rate when pricing items in Europe.
Canadians have know the benefit of having a lower currency for a number of years (99c price point for iTunes in both CanD and USD benefits Canada). However, that may change, as the Canadian dollar starts approaching parity with the USD.
Then again, you can't really tell the difference between the beers after the first few either.
Actually, that could be a good enough reason for them to release it GPL, and have a dual license option for some other Sun licenses.
However, I think they are more worried about Eclipse than MS at this point, and I doubt Eclipse would shy away from forking a GPL Java. Sun doesn't want the source of forks to be available for them to use - they want no forks to begin with. They are control freaks when it comes to their projects.
Really it'll come down to IBM and Sun working out some arrangement where the code for Java is available under an OSI license, but where Sun still has some sort of the control it desires. Given that Java is developoment is partly a community process anyhow, you'd think there would be some way they could attain that.
And since Linux runs on the iPod, it should be a pretty easy argument to win.
The iPod can be used as a somewhat general purpose portable computer. It may not be a good computer, but it does have a processor and some inputs/outputs, plus a general purpose OS. I wonder if Apple would be willing to show Linux on the iPod in court, or if it'd even help them.
Considering that Apple has been working on a database file system (like WinFS, except that it'll actually be released), I'm not sure where ZFS fits in here. Maybe on XServe and XServe RAID, or just as another alternative besides HFS+ and UFS I suppose. But I don't think the dbfs will be based on ZFS.
Too bad Apple isn't making new products with Hypertransport anymore, now that they're using Intel instead of the G5 or AMD. It would be interesting to have a rack of XServe machines that just do plug-and-play clustering via a Hypertransport port. Unless they go with AMD in the XServe (which actually wouldn't make much sense for a 1U single/dual processor unit), then I don't think we'll see anything like this.
Yes, it isn't intended for external CPUs, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be possible. It would depend on what the OS and motherboard could support. The earlier article about the FPGA that plugged into the Opteron's motherboard slot is an example of what could now be done outside the case, if there was demand for it.
Setting up a non-profit company in Canada is trivial. Getting it set up so that you can give charitable tax receipts is another thing completely.
Theo really should set up the OpenBSD foundation instead of having cheques go to himself. Even if it isn't set up to give out tax receipts to donors, it would give people a bit more assurance that the money is going towards OpenBSD.
NumlockX enabled on startup is simply a good idea and a cheap and trivial fix.
Its a terrible idea on a laptop.
It is also terrible if you have a server "space-saver" type keyboard. A lot of distros turn it on by default, which means you have to disable it for every machine you switch to on your KVM. I quickly disabled this "feature" on all of the machines in this rack.
However it is handy for most desktops and workstations, which is Ubuntu's primary usage area besides laptops.
I still don't understand what makes apt-get years ahead of something like urpmi. Both seem to just work, and do about the same sort of thing. I don't have problems with either.
.deb is so superior to .rpm haven't tried anything like urpmi, and are stuck with the impressions of RPM hell from many years back.
I have a feeling that most of the people who keep mouthing off about how
At one time apt-get was revolutionary. Now everyone has either copied its ideas (yum, urpmi, etc) or ported it to their system (or sometimes both). Some RPM based distros have used apt-get for package management for a number of years.
I imagine Ubuntu may have other benefits though, so I do intend to try it out at some point.
I believe that was done on purpose, to show that he wasn't just replacing the frames in his video. Plus he could move around and show us the back of the machine. That video left little room for forgery, especially since it showed a change in resolution on the screen, and a return from sleep mode, that would be very hard to fake.
Or it could just be the coffee, as another poster has already metioned.
I believe the PLF folks are working on a PLF for Ubuntu.
1 4/56-plf-ubuntu-meeting-summary
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf
http://placelibre.ath.cx/keyes/index.php/2005/10/
Your CIO or Director of IT may be more worried about cleartext passwords than lawsuits, but I'm betting that most CEOs would be more worried about the word "lawsuit" than some computer talk about "cleartext passwords".
A couple truths are very relevant:
1. Companies will go to great lengths to avoid being sued.
2. Lawyers run the world.
However I'm not quite sure why Debian's policy is such a hinderance to you if you're not worried about the legality. Just compile netatalk with OpenSSSL yourself, just like every other distro is doing. Or use 'alien' to bring in another distro's package. Or use another distro. That is one benefit of open source - you can thumb your nose at the law all you want if the code is available and you aren't worried about the consequences. You don't have such options with proprietary code.
I would not be surprised if internet radio over Wi-Max ends up seriously hurting XM and Sirius. Right now they have a stranglehold on the market due to the cost of entry (satelite systems). However Wi-Max enabled car "radios" open up a whole new realm of possibilities, for both competing subscription channels and free alternatives.
Instead of paying $X for access to a whole bunch of stations, you could instead pay smaller amounts for the stations you actually want to listen to. The WiMax providers themselves would have an instant advantage here too - combining QoS and multicast, they would be able to provide a much more reliable service than 3rd party internet stations.
The struggle between ISPs and service providers for network control will most certainly be extended to the airwaves. Much to the detriment of comsumers.
Maybe not, but maybe MS can sell those users VirtualPC. Running OS X on OS X seems sort of redundant, but it'd work.
All the EU has asked for the APIs in Windows to be documented and available to other developers. MS continues to try doing everything but providing what the EU is actually asking for.
If MS has a problem with that, they can take their business elsewhere...
At one time I wanted to see TextPad ported. However there are now pretty close alternatives available, most of which are open source.