I figured they'd be too embarrassed to release the source code, heh. 65,000+ bugs. I guess they needed some way of getting all those bugs fixed and this is the perfect excuse - let more people see the code, point out bugs, and perhaps they can reduce that 65,000+ figure to the point where it's half as stable as Solaris or any other *nix.
Most people only use Usenet for the binaries section. I don't think that counting the number of usenet posts for a particular OS can tell you how many people use that OS. Anyway, how does Theo know how many people use OpenBSD ? I respect the fact that he's the project leader, but how can he possibly know how many copies of downloads, downloads themselves, network installs, etc, have happened? He can't - however, granted that OpenBSD isn't a mainstream system like, say, FreeBSD - saying that there are only 36,000 FreeBSD users is almost certainly FUD, and backing it up with "usenet post ratios" is completely nonsensical. FreeBSD is widely used, although I think that soon people will begin looking at OpenBSD if the cryptography export issues with FreeBSD aren't sorted out.
In that case, animals aren't conscious. Do you know what the word means?
"Having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts. "
Yep. Animals comply with the criteria of that description, yet No animals I know of have ever passed the turing test either. If one has, kindly provide an affidavit confirming this.
After you've installed XP you have like 2 weeks to "activate" it. You'll start getting notices. If you don't activate it within the two weeks the app and OS (Whistler does this too) stops working.
Um, this kind of Draconian bullshit is the kind of thing that will bring Microsoft down.
Even their current licensing system is totally ridiculous. To me, if it takes more than half a minute to explain per seat/per sever/etc etc, the licensing system is too involved and you should just put down a Linux or FreeBSD box... or even a Solaris x86 box (with less than 8 processors)...Microsoft can go and screw themselves.
If techs were cautious about moving to non-MS platforms before, this might just make them do it.
2) Develop a script to write a script! While I will admit that the animation is of a good quality, they haven't had a script since The Black Cauldron, just more of thier nonsensical talking animal films.
Cmon! You can't be serious! All hackers love talking animals.
Stop being weird:P
The system tries to find the files in $CDROM LETTER$:\....what you need to do is type in:\win98\
After that, what you should do is copy the files onto your HDD once your system is install. Type:
C:
cd \
mkdir win98
xcopy $CDROM LETTER$:\win98\*.*/s C:\win98
Then when the system asks for the Windows 98 CD, just put in C:\win98. That's it. That's all you do. And when you get tired of Windows, you install GNU/Linux or preferably, Free Solaris x86
With the calibre of people you see working on the Eazel project - when they say GNOME is userfriendly, can you deny it? These guys have been doing graphics since Bill was in his diapers.
If you've read any of my posts at all, you will realize too, that I stated that Microsoft DOES have a place in the software world, even in the server world, for low-end servers. So please, be civilized, and let's try and have a rational discussion (note I stopped sticking out my tongue:P)
You might want to check your IDC figures again:P they're pretty much rubbish:P 1%? I don't think so....now misquoting figures is one thing, but misquoting a SOURCE like IDC..well well....I don't think they'd appreciate you twisting their research like that.
(1) Microsoft Products are based on hypeware. Their statistics are not accurate and have been designed by their marketing team to distort facts and spread FUD about other platforms.
In reality, Microsoft is a very sick company. 80% of their products have either stagnated or are being pirated.
Linux is gaining market momentum. Not only is Linux on the increase as far as low-end server use goes, it is also picking up marketshare in the desktop arena. Things like GNOME will really give Microsoft a headache. Recent research indicates that GNOME is more userfriendly than Microsoft's Explorer GUI. This was confirmed by an ex-Apple employee, one of the key GUI development engineers, who is now working on the Eazel project.
Add to this the fact that major companies like HP and Sun Microsystems will soon be shipping GNOME with their desktops and it spells the end of Microsoft desktop domination. The only way around this would be for Microsoft to conform and re-write their GUI to be more compatible with GNOME and Bonobo(tm) technology. However, if they did that, it would lead to a far easier route off of the Microsoft-only desktop, which would not be something Microsoft would want to do.
(2) Microsoft is desperate. Their server products are not up to scratch and despite forging statistics and "proof" that their products are good on the server side, they are somewhat a joke in the actual industry. You obviously have never worked in the industry itself - the Microsoft NT product is reknown for the BSOD. The Microsoft 2000 product seems to have even more problems of its own, despite a few loud Windows supporters claiming they've never had to reboot it even though they've been running it for 14 months.
Because of this desperation, Microsoft has tried to imitate Sun Microsystem's successful Java technology with what they call ".NET". So what is ".NET" hmmmm ? A poor imitation of Java that is tied to Microsoft-based platforms..NET is currently not even a full solution, and the betas are only available for Windows platforms. So why the hype?.NET has no technical advantages at all over Java. Java currently runs on a wide variety of platforms and JVMs to run Java code are available from a wide variety of vendors. Yet the hype of.NET has reached ridiculous proportions. The fact is, Microsoft have never developed anything innovative in the entire history of the company, and it is starting to catch up with them. Soon Windows will history, and.NET will serve a niche market.
The internet is powered by real software - software that has been proven and is trusted by millions of individuals worldwide. Only the trusted Solaris enviroment can provide the mix of usability, reliability and performance needed to power the internet. Perhaps eventually Linux, NT, FreeBSD, and other lower-end solutions will catch up to the trusted Solaris enviroment, but for now, enterprise-level networks are primarily dependent on Sun Microsystems.
This is not to say that Microsoft software doesn't have a place on the server-side, I believe that all software has its place. Microsoft is good for low-end servers for companies with money to waste and are running non-mission critical, low-volume applications. Linux and *BSD are good for companies that are running medium-size businesses with medium-volume loads. But none of these systems are good for high-load, mission-critical database-driven systems. You'll find that most companies with demanding workloads are running Solaris and Oracle Database.
The reason that Solaris can outperform these other systems is that the trusted Solaris system was designed by a team of elite engineers for maximum performace - it took the age-old UNIX tradition and streamlined it into a powerful operating enviroment that allows for optimum performace. Add to this the fact that the UltraSPARC technology is 64-bit, whereas Intel's technology is mere 32-bit (and soon will be pseudo-64-bit, but big deal) and you get the general picture - NT is an unproven toy operating system. Perhaps in 10 years when NT has been around half as long as the trusted Solaris enviroment and proven itself like the trusted Solaris enviroment has, you can start talking about how great it is...until then, just shut up - do the world a favour. You want to talk about scalability ? NT doesn't even compare with the trusted Solaris enviroment in this regard. Microsoft admitted this in a press conference in 1998.
While you're right about the difficulty in programming dataflow engines manually, what you aren't taking into consideration is that this does not have to be done manually anymore. It's merely a different paradigm of object/symbolic assembly. So unlike in the WW2 days (or the early 80s for that matter), problems like this are only problems for guys writing the assemblers and compilers.
Do you realize the reason why Hallmark cards exist?
Thinking up some of the phrases and expressing them so well is something that not many people can do. That's why Hallmark cards exist - so that individuals don't have to sit down and think up the expressions that go into them, which are, in all honestly, mostly brilliant. People that can think of such well worded literature are paid a lot of money are, in truth, very intelligent people. You know, the kind of people who would read topical weblogs - very similar to the kind of people who read Slashdot, in fact, and it appears, some of them even DO read Slashdot. So, shut up - don't be jealous.
This might have some medical value and indeed scientific value. As long as the brain controlling the arm doesn't belong to a female monkey, I predict a good chance of success.
Thanks,
Graham Thomas
Slashdot Mirror
I figured they'd be too embarrassed to release the source code, heh. 65,000+ bugs. I guess they needed some way of getting all those bugs fixed and this is the perfect excuse - let more people see the code, point out bugs, and perhaps they can reduce that 65,000+ figure to the point where it's half as stable as Solaris or any other *nix.
Most people only use Usenet for the binaries section. I don't think that counting the number of usenet posts for a particular OS can tell you how many people use that OS. Anyway, how does Theo know how many people use OpenBSD ? I respect the fact that he's the project leader, but how can he possibly know how many copies of downloads, downloads themselves, network installs, etc, have happened? He can't - however, granted that OpenBSD isn't a mainstream system like, say, FreeBSD - saying that there are only 36,000 FreeBSD users is almost certainly FUD, and backing it up with "usenet post ratios" is completely nonsensical. FreeBSD is widely used, although I think that soon people will begin looking at OpenBSD if the cryptography export issues with FreeBSD aren't sorted out.
Even their current licensing system is totally ridiculous. To me, if it takes more than half a minute to explain per seat/per sever/etc etc, the licensing system is too involved and you should just put down a Linux or FreeBSD box... or even a Solaris x86 box (with less than 8 processors)...Microsoft can go and screw themselves.
If techs were cautious about moving to non-MS platforms before, this might just make them do it.2) Develop a script to write a script! While I will admit that the animation is of a good quality, they haven't had a script since The Black Cauldron, just more of thier nonsensical talking animal films.
Cmon! You can't be serious! All hackers love talking animals. Stop being weirdThe system tries to find the files in $CDROM LETTER$:\....what you need to do is type in :\win98\
After that, what you should do is copy the files onto your HDD once your system is install. Type:C:
cd \
mkdir win98
xcopy $CDROM LETTER$:\win98\*.* /s C:\win98
Then when the system asks for the Windows 98 CD, just put in C:\win98. That's it. That's all you do. And when you get tired of Windows, you install GNU/Linux or preferably, Free Solaris x86why isn't there a python version too ?
You want it , you got it buddy !:=)
With the calibre of people you see working on the Eazel project - when they say GNOME is userfriendly, can you deny it? These guys have been doing graphics since Bill was in his diapers.
The GNOME foundation includes some of the top computing companies in the world. That simply verifies what I said earlier - you seem to want to be aggresive, yet I am not making aggressive gestures, just pointing out facts.If you've read any of my posts at all, you will realize too, that I stated that Microsoft DOES have a place in the software world, even in the server world, for low-end servers. So please, be civilized, and let's try and have a rational discussion (note I stopped sticking out my tongue:P)
You might want to check your IDC figures again :P they're pretty much rubbish :P 1%? I don't think so....now misquoting figures is one thing, but misquoting a SOURCE like IDC..well well....I don't think they'd appreciate you twisting their research like that.
http://www.safield-group.com/service/english/pirac y.htm
http://www.gitex.com/shopper/news/00oct22.html
(1) Microsoft Products are based on hypeware. Their statistics are not accurate and have been designed by their marketing team to distort facts and spread FUD about other platforms.
In reality, Microsoft is a very sick company. 80% of their products have either stagnated or are being pirated.Linux is gaining market momentum. Not only is Linux on the increase as far as low-end server use goes, it is also picking up marketshare in the desktop arena. Things like GNOME will really give Microsoft a headache. Recent research indicates that GNOME is more userfriendly than Microsoft's Explorer GUI. This was confirmed by an ex-Apple employee, one of the key GUI development engineers, who is now working on the Eazel project.
Add to this the fact that major companies like HP and Sun Microsystems will soon be shipping GNOME with their desktops and it spells the end of Microsoft desktop domination. The only way around this would be for Microsoft to conform and re-write their GUI to be more compatible with GNOME and Bonobo(tm) technology. However, if they did that, it would lead to a far easier route off of the Microsoft-only desktop, which would not be something Microsoft would want to do.(2) Microsoft is desperate. Their server products are not up to scratch and despite forging statistics and "proof" that their products are good on the server side, they are somewhat a joke in the actual industry. You obviously have never worked in the industry itself - the Microsoft NT product is reknown for the BSOD. The Microsoft 2000 product seems to have even more problems of its own, despite a few loud Windows supporters claiming they've never had to reboot it even though they've been running it for 14 months.
Because of this desperation, Microsoft has tried to imitate Sun Microsystem's successful Java technology with what they call ".NET". So what is ".NET" hmmmm ? A poor imitation of Java that is tied to Microsoft-based platforms.The internet is powered by real software - software that has been proven and is trusted by millions of individuals worldwide. Only the trusted Solaris enviroment can provide the mix of usability, reliability and performance needed to power the internet. Perhaps eventually Linux, NT, FreeBSD, and other lower-end solutions will catch up to the trusted Solaris enviroment, but for now, enterprise-level networks are primarily dependent on Sun Microsystems.
This is not to say that Microsoft software doesn't have a place on the server-side, I believe that all software has its place. Microsoft is good for low-end servers for companies with money to waste and are running non-mission critical, low-volume applications. Linux and *BSD are good for companies that are running medium-size businesses with medium-volume loads. But none of these systems are good for high-load, mission-critical database-driven systems. You'll find that most companies with demanding workloads are running Solaris and Oracle Database.The reason that Solaris can outperform these other systems is that the trusted Solaris system was designed by a team of elite engineers for maximum performace - it took the age-old UNIX tradition and streamlined it into a powerful operating enviroment that allows for optimum performace. Add to this the fact that the UltraSPARC technology is 64-bit, whereas Intel's technology is mere 32-bit (and soon will be pseudo-64-bit, but big deal) and you get the general picture - NT is an unproven toy operating system. Perhaps in 10 years when NT has been around half as long as the trusted Solaris enviroment and proven itself like the trusted Solaris enviroment has, you can start talking about how great it is...until then, just shut up - do the world a favour. You want to talk about scalability ? NT doesn't even compare with the trusted Solaris enviroment in this regard. Microsoft admitted this in a press conference in 1998.
While you're right about the difficulty in programming dataflow engines manually, what you aren't taking into consideration is that this does not have to be done manually anymore. It's merely a different paradigm of object/symbolic assembly. So unlike in the WW2 days (or the early 80s for that matter), problems like this are only problems for guys writing the assemblers and compilers.
Do you realize the reason why Hallmark cards exist?
Thinking up some of the phrases and expressing them so well is something that not many people can do. That's why Hallmark cards exist - so that individuals don't have to sit down and think up the expressions that go into them, which are, in all honestly, mostly brilliant. People that can think of such well worded literature are paid a lot of money are, in truth, very intelligent people. You know, the kind of people who would read topical weblogs - very similar to the kind of people who read Slashdot, in fact, and it appears, some of them even DO read Slashdot. So, shut up - don't be jealous.This might have some medical value and indeed scientific value. As long as the brain controlling the arm doesn't belong to a female monkey, I predict a good chance of success. Thanks, Graham Thomas