After 10-15 years of farking around with Linux and various things, I have completely given up.
I'm sick of spending hours getting things working after updates. Of spending hours getting new hardware working. (then finding out any support software is void of any useful function, ie cameras, sound hardware, etc)
...they are absolutely right on one thing..com is for commercial entities. If you aren't commercial, you should be denied.com. If you aren't a non-profit, you should be denied.org. If you aren't an ISP or other infrastructure provider, you should be denied a.net.
That's the way it once was, and that's the way it should be. The way it is now, there's no difference except that people prefer.com because that's what people remember the most.
As if there's enough of a market for any MORE unix systems? The Unix vendors are basically already killing themselves with it, as there really is no more market for it that Linux/BSD hasn't already absorbed.
I've been using Unix for most of my life, and quite frankly, if it's not Linux/BSD, it's not useful.
A realtor, even without other bids, will, from what i've seen, tell people that there are higher bids, so that you will bid higher, therefore they make higher commissions.
XML: Taking regular data, encapsulating it in HTML style tags for no particularly great reason, other than to make human-readable data out of data that will only be read by a machine anyway, and to increase the size of the storage required to store that data by 2x-4x.:-)
Even more so, my K6-2/400 could probably have handled that load. (It can handle a live fark photoshop contest without increasing it's loadavg.. the internet connection, however, cannot) I'd be moderately surprised if a 486 couldn't handle that kind of a load.
my roommate is in the mortgage business. Plays hardball with lots of realtors. A lot of realtors will tell you that garbage, to try to get you to raise your offer. It's all trying to force a higher priced sale.
Realtors are just as bad as the stereotypical used car salesman. And I've been burned by both.
This message made me think.. a three button mouse.. When I had one of those, I operated it using my first three fingers. With the raised wheel for the middle button though, it seems more natural to operate it using two fingers, and move the forefinger between the wheel and the primary button. I should try to train myself to go back to three fingering the mouse, for better efficiency and less strain on the finger.
I wonder moreso, how many other applications the source code has been completely and utterly lost for. Hell, I don't have the source code for much of anything that I used to write, I relied on the Internet to be my backup. Well, that didn't turn out nearly as easily done when you're talking about a project with a hundred or so users at most, versus say, Linux. heh.
It's called an "Installer Challenge" because the goal is to run all the installers, soon. Not all windows programs, soon.
Not going to happen in the 'soon' time frame, or likely even the 'not too long' time frame. Wine is still horribly unstable, unless you're using one of the programs that the developers of wine uses it to run. ANd there's far more than just MS based installers, even though MS has supplied an installer for many years now, there's tons of developers who seem to refuse to use it.
And, whenever wine gets an MS installer working 100%, of course, the installer gets changed.
How can you have something 400% efficient? Wouldn't that mean it generates 4X the amount of output as is input? That doesn't work in my head. Or do I just not understand the concept?
Well, considering that a casio calculator watch is now probably more powerful than the first boxes to run Linux, why don't we just hook up a keyboard interface to it, and run Linux on one of them?
Do these people ask themselves "what would anyone, or myself, ever possibly use this for?"..
Try pulling up any area where there's any kind of military base.:-) Augusta, Michigan is in the same zip code as a military base, and you can't zoom in on anything within about 12 miles of it's center.
i'm not sure what "DOS SVGA text apps" are.. actually, I've just started using KDE... from remote. It's ok, I guess. Definitely faster than the current generation of GNOME that's included with Fedora. At least on a remote system. Bleah.
They did, a few years ago. ecomstation has been the only upgrades of OS/2 to come out besides fixpaks from IBM in several years.
eComStation product plan calls for sales of eComStation through mid-2007. Even then, there are no plans to terminate the product. That is simply the time frame of the current product plan.
On July 12, IBM announced withdrawal of active marketing and end of support for OS/2, see http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/announceme nts.html IBM had previously endicated end of service for OS/2 Warp 4 is December 31, 2006, and the withdrawal from active marketing as of December 23, 2005, indicating IBM will not sell OS/2 Warp 4 after this year.
This announcement covers the IBM plans for the IBM distribution of the OS/2 products. The announcement does not impact OEMs who may use OS/2 and other IBM products as part of their product solution.
"eComStation will remain available as long as it is a good business. There is no end in sight". - Bob St.John, Director of Business Development,Serenity Systems International
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80,000,000 downloads, after there have been countless releases in this time frame.. and how long is this time frame?
I've probably "downloaded" slashdot and fark's main pages 80,000,000 times personally..
then again, i may have downloaded firefox and/or mozilla a couple thousand times too
We need to install a large quantity of pinwheels on the tops of every car. And convert the roof, hood, and trunk lid to solar panels.
After 10-15 years of farking around with Linux and various things, I have completely given up.
I'm sick of spending hours getting things working after updates. Of spending hours getting new hardware working. (then finding out any support software is void of any useful function, ie cameras, sound hardware, etc)
There should be more TLD's. There should've been more TLD's.
And someone asked about using non-global addresses.. No, the Network is global. There shouldn't BE country coded addresses.
bzzt. Bzzt. Bzzt.
.com's. .com came into existence shortly before the commercial ban on Internet traffic was removed.
When I started in 1988, or so, there were no
...they are absolutely right on one thing. .com is for commercial entities. If you aren't commercial, you should be denied .com. If you aren't a non-profit, you should be denied .org. If you aren't an ISP or other infrastructure provider, you should be denied a .net.
.com because that's what people remember the most.
That's the way it once was, and that's the way it should be. The way it is now, there's no difference except that people prefer
Bring sanity back to DNS.
As if there's enough of a market for any MORE unix systems? The Unix vendors are basically already killing themselves with it, as there really is no more market for it that Linux/BSD hasn't already absorbed.
I've been using Unix for most of my life, and quite frankly, if it's not Linux/BSD, it's not useful.
Long, long, long story.
A realtor, even without other bids, will, from what i've seen, tell people that there are higher bids, so that you will bid higher, therefore they make higher commissions.
XML: Taking regular data, encapsulating it in HTML style tags for no particularly great reason, other than to make human-readable data out of data that will only be read by a machine anyway, and to increase the size of the storage required to store that data by 2x-4x. :-)
Even more so, my K6-2/400 could probably have handled that load. (It can handle a live fark photoshop contest without increasing it's loadavg.. the internet connection, however, cannot) I'd be moderately surprised if a 486 couldn't handle that kind of a load.
my roommate is in the mortgage business. Plays hardball with lots of realtors. A lot of realtors will tell you that garbage, to try to get you to raise your offer. It's all trying to force a higher priced sale.
Realtors are just as bad as the stereotypical used car salesman. And I've been burned by both.
...and after playing with it that way for, approximately, 30 seconds... my wrist now hurts like hell.
I'd like a regular old style three button, but optical/wireless please.
This message made me think.. a three button mouse.. When I had one of those, I operated it using my first three fingers. With the raised wheel for the middle button though, it seems more natural to operate it using two fingers, and move the forefinger between the wheel and the primary button. I should try to train myself to go back to three fingering the mouse, for better efficiency and less strain on the finger.
Why does a LINUX story have Comedy and Tragedy as it's icon?
There's a linux ver of Postal 2? fark. Wish I knew where my CD for the Windows ver was...
I wonder moreso, how many other applications the source code has been completely and utterly lost for. Hell, I don't have the source code for much of anything that I used to write, I relied on the Internet to be my backup. Well, that didn't turn out nearly as easily done when you're talking about a project with a hundred or so users at most, versus say, Linux. heh.
It's called an "Installer Challenge" because the goal is to run all the installers, soon. Not all windows programs, soon.
Not going to happen in the 'soon' time frame, or likely even the 'not too long' time frame. Wine is still horribly unstable, unless you're using one of the programs that the developers of wine uses it to run. ANd there's far more than just MS based installers, even though MS has supplied an installer for many years now, there's tons of developers who seem to refuse to use it.
And, whenever wine gets an MS installer working 100%, of course, the installer gets changed.
We've known that IE 7 would be XP+ only for what, two years? ever since 6.0 came out?
This is hardly a new revelation. Come on.
(what's with the image verification here now?)
How can you have something 400% efficient? Wouldn't that mean it generates 4X the amount of output as is input? That doesn't work in my head. Or do I just not understand the concept?
Well, considering that a casio calculator watch is now probably more powerful than the first boxes to run Linux, why don't we just hook up a keyboard interface to it, and run Linux on one of them?
..
Do these people ask themselves "what would anyone, or myself, ever possibly use this for?"
Of course, if you just use a lithium 9V battery, you don't have to worry about it for a decade or more.
Try pulling up any area where there's any kind of military base. :-) Augusta, Michigan is in the same zip code as a military base, and you can't zoom in on anything within about 12 miles of it's center.
i'm not sure what "DOS SVGA text apps" are .. actually, I've just started using KDE... from remote. It's ok, I guess. Definitely faster than the current generation of GNOME that's included with Fedora. At least on a remote system. Bleah.
On July 12, IBM announced withdrawal of active marketing and end of support for OS/2, see http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/announcem
This announcement covers the IBM plans for the IBM distribution of the OS/2 products. The announcement does not impact OEMs who may use OS/2 and other IBM products as part of their product solution.
"eComStation will remain available as long as it is a good business. There is no end in sight". - Bob St.John, Director of Business Development,Serenity Systems International
...but the workplace shell... would be absolutely farking invaluable on today's systems. There's nothing in the world that comes close to it.