Sounds more like some mid-level politico thought it would be cheaper to equip inspectors with glorified hair dryers than spectrometers. But feel free to union-bash. God knows safe and equitable workplace conditions are best left to the generosity of the employer.
I'm sure the "running Windows and Mandrake" thing means the installer conveniently sets up dual-booting (which it does), but your point is well-taken.
If I remember properly, Mandrake offers Win4Lin to Mandrake Club users at a discount. I've run VMware successfully under Mandrake 9.1, also. It's a great program.
I'd like to thank each of you for attending today's AOL strategy meeting.
Okay, as you know, we've never been *really* able to sell AOL as a content-delivery service. Our core business remains dial-up ISP services. It's a declining business, but could remain profitable for some time if we keep our costs down.
So here's the plan: we're going to roll our core business into a new brand. It's actually a familiar brand we'll now reposition as a dial-up provider for the masses. Slap the Netscape portal on top of cheap dial-up, and there you go.
Meanwhile, AOL will continue as always. When Time-Warner finally gives us the boot, they'll get AOL's content assets. Those, in turn, will find their way to TW's cable TV division.
At the end of the day, we'll again be a dialup provider under the Netscape brand. But we'll be price-competitive again. Time Warner goes their way, and we go ours.
Okay, there's the strategy portion of our program. Up next, we'll discuss the new AOL-branded Segway scooters. They're the next Big Thing: "So easy to ride, no wonder they're number one."
I can't imagine why Sun is commiting the classic error of brand extension by calling this a "Java" desktop. It dilutes the value of the best thing Sun has going for them and doesn't clearly describe their new product. How numbingly short-sighted. Surely Sun can afford some proper marketing direction.
Unless there's some legal reason to the contrary, this product should have been released as "SunLinux." No need to use buzzphrases like "desktop" in the packaging, either. It's a meaningless term to Windows users, who view the desktop and underlying OS as the same thing. Just present the value-added software (the desktop, StarOffice, etc.) as a very cool SunLinux bonus and move on.
Another case of corporate ego over common sense. Pity: sounds like a decent product.
Shutting down free and unmoderated chatrooms is really about putting an end to something that doesn't make money and represents a legal liability to Microsoft. I'm not one to give M$ a pass on much, but I can hardly blame them for pulling the plug. How long can it be before some outraged advocacy group stages a class action suit against Microsoft for "knowingly providing a forum" for file-swappers and other naughty people?
I'm thinking the days of wide-open chatrooms are coming to an end. And IRC isn't next: it will be AOL.
Perhaps Sun meant, "We're not working on an OS X version of Star Office because we know Apple is close to fielding Appleworks 7, and we see no profit in competing with it."
And that would be perfectly fair--particularly if Appleworks 7 just happens to be full of Open Office code.
> Great to look at, but expensive as fuck and not much to do with her.
Except, of course, running Quark, and Photoshop, and...and...and...
I put Yellow Dog Linux on my iBook and don't regret it, but Macs are great in certain industries. Expensive, you bet. But they hold their value well and run things still not available in Linux.
Whoever summarized the article really took offense to the "two distros" comment. That's a pity: SuSE is a good community citizen, and has gone a long way toward making Linux acceptable to the corporate and government crowd. They're also convinced Linux belongs on the desktop--as opposed to (for instance) Red Hat, which seems to have decided Linux desktops are for hobbyists.
He's right, by the way: the IT world is concentrating on SuSE and RH right now. That doesn't mean Gentoo/Debian/Mandrake/Slackware and the rest don't have a place, but none of these distros have done much to get themselves certified for government adoption. SuSE has. Power to 'em.
I like SuSE, and have put 8.2 Professional on five machines in the past few months. My friends love it. It's an easy install, and yast is a convenient manager. SuSE goes naturally with KDE.
The only computer in my life that isn't running SuSE is my iBook, which uses Yellow Dog 3.0. It's tough to beat Terrasoft's Mac hardware support.
I'm happy to buy from a company that's passionate about the platform and knows how to play hardball with Microsoft.
I've been running OS X on a 300 MHZ Biondi Blue iBook since the final beta. It runs reasonably well on 288MB of RAM.
On the other hand, Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 sure works great. It's easy to configure for an Airport, and supports the iBook's power management features perfectly. It's an easier install than OS X, for that matter.
I think I'll reload YDL and see if I can live with it until the settlement is final.
I have seen bamboo and other wooden bikes done before.
As some folks have pointed out, the problem with wooden bikes is that they flex. Badly.
That means your chainline won't stay straight. It will rub, and the gears will try to shift by themselves. Note that the bamboo bike in the picture doesn't have derailleurs. There's a reason.
To reduce flex, you have to increase the diameter of the bamboo tubing. At some point, it becomes impractical-- rather like riding a tree trunk down the street.
The designer of this bamboo ride seems to have tried to compensate for the flexy tubing by adding a brace across the main diamond of the frame. It really won't help much if the rider is strong or heavy. The bottom bracket is gonna feel like it's made of rubber.
There's also the matter of frame alignment. I don't care what you coat bamboo with--it's going to change shape with temperature and humidity. Even casual riders on low-end bambo bikes will be frustrated by a ride that doesn't track in a straight line.
My dad used to race track bikes with wooden rims. They were notoriously dangerous. Riding a bicycle is risky enough without having to worry about being impaled by its wreckage.
If you're really concerned about the resources consumed by aluminim or titanium framesets, there's always steel. Modern steel bike tubing approaches the low weight of aluminum and provides more forgiving ride characteristics. There are also cabon fiber and composite alternatives.
The bamboo bike is a head-turner. But bamboo sucks as a bicycle frame material.
The problem with boxed distros is that they get stale almost immediately. That costs RH and the others bucks (as they eat the unsold copies with each new release).
Unfortunately, I think most potential mom-and-pop Linux converts will expect to be able to run down to Best Buy and find Linux-in-a-box. I just can't imagine 90% of the people I know downloading an ISO and burning an install disk.
Perhaps the distros could box disks that make a network install easy?
I bought a boxed set for the same reasons (go, SuSE!). If boxed distros suddenly disappeared, I'd probably subscribe the subscription service which would replace it.
> But oddly, ever sinice version 9 came out we've sold about 10 copies, if not more. But if you compare that to the number of MS Windows we've sold, it's something like 10-1....or about 10%. Just what you'd expect.
Yup, looks very much like Entourage (the Mac version of Outlook).
Evolution 1.4 was reasonably attractive, if not a bit slow. There's little there which would lure me from Kmail, though, since I prefer standalone clients.
My main problem with Ximian (in general) is the violence done by installing XD2 on Red Hat 9 and SuSE 8.2. On RH, it damaged my KDE desktop. On SuSE, it rendered the system unstable. I'm afraid to chance a standalone Evolution install.
You know, there's just no substitute for a properly trained pollworker and a real paper ballot. Most people live within walking distance of a polling station. Take your commitment to democracy seriously; get up early enough to show in person; stand in line; and make your opinion count. It's easy.
By side-by-side I meant dual boot, of course. Then again, you can run X in OS X these days. Not quite the same thing, but numerous Linux favorites now run under X in OS X. GIMP, for instance.
I use VMware at work to run legacy Windows apps, rather than dual booting. What a great program.
Perhaps someone will build a VMware-type program someday to emulate PPC on x86. In the meantime, though, it remains that the only computer which will dual-boot OS X and Linux is a Mac.
I'm not knocking x86, nor am I a Mac fanatic. but I think the new G5s are going to be a great investment. I'll own one this year.
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You're right. Throw those useless eaters into the streets. How dare they work!
Sounds more like some mid-level politico thought it would be cheaper to equip inspectors with glorified hair dryers than spectrometers. But feel free to union-bash. God knows safe and equitable workplace conditions are best left to the generosity of the employer.
I understood. I agree with him: it could be misleading.
I'm sure the "running Windows and Mandrake" thing means the installer conveniently sets up dual-booting (which it does), but your point is well-taken. If I remember properly, Mandrake offers Win4Lin to Mandrake Club users at a discount. I've run VMware successfully under Mandrake 9.1, also. It's a great program.
Okay, as you know, we've never been *really* able to sell AOL as a content-delivery service. Our core business remains dial-up ISP services. It's a declining business, but could remain profitable for some time if we keep our costs down.
So here's the plan: we're going to roll our core business into a new brand. It's actually a familiar brand we'll now reposition as a dial-up provider for the masses. Slap the Netscape portal on top of cheap dial-up, and there you go.
Meanwhile, AOL will continue as always. When Time-Warner finally gives us the boot, they'll get AOL's content assets. Those, in turn, will find their way to TW's cable TV division.
At the end of the day, we'll again be a dialup provider under the Netscape brand. But we'll be price-competitive again. Time Warner goes their way, and we go ours.
Okay, there's the strategy portion of our program. Up next, we'll discuss the new AOL-branded Segway scooters. They're the next Big Thing: "So easy to ride, no wonder they're number one."
The don't have Gnome 2.5, either. Retrograde trolls.
I'm guessing his lawyers told him he was an idiot, and losing the case would make enforcing future (read: "more profitable") lawsuits more difficult.
Actually, that's what I was thinking. I'd certainly go buy an iPod if i could support it with an iTune/Wine app.
...us or the Chinese? ;-)
I can't imagine why Sun is commiting the classic error of brand extension by calling this a "Java" desktop. It dilutes the value of the best thing Sun has going for them and doesn't clearly describe their new product. How numbingly short-sighted. Surely Sun can afford some proper marketing direction.
Unless there's some legal reason to the contrary, this product should have been released as "SunLinux." No need to use buzzphrases like "desktop" in the packaging, either. It's a meaningless term to Windows users, who view the desktop and underlying OS as the same thing. Just present the value-added software (the desktop, StarOffice, etc.) as a very cool SunLinux bonus and move on.
Another case of corporate ego over common sense. Pity: sounds like a decent product.
Can you see it now? The Dalai Lama's smiling face next to a Windows logo and the new MS slogan, "Think the Same." The ultimate in cool, huh?
...BIOS boots YOU! (okay, burn my karma...) ;-)
Shutting down free and unmoderated chatrooms is really about putting an end to something that doesn't make money and represents a legal liability to Microsoft. I'm not one to give M$ a pass on much, but I can hardly blame them for pulling the plug. How long can it be before some outraged advocacy group stages a class action suit against Microsoft for "knowingly providing a forum" for file-swappers and other naughty people? I'm thinking the days of wide-open chatrooms are coming to an end. And IRC isn't next: it will be AOL.
Perhaps Sun meant, "We're not working on an OS X version of Star Office because we know Apple is close to fielding Appleworks 7, and we see no profit in competing with it." And that would be perfectly fair--particularly if Appleworks 7 just happens to be full of Open Office code.
...and take it into the voting booth in November, 2004.
> Great to look at, but expensive as fuck and not much to do with her. Except, of course, running Quark, and Photoshop, and...and...and... I put Yellow Dog Linux on my iBook and don't regret it, but Macs are great in certain industries. Expensive, you bet. But they hold their value well and run things still not available in Linux.
Whoever summarized the article really took offense to the "two distros" comment. That's a pity: SuSE is a good community citizen, and has gone a long way toward making Linux acceptable to the corporate and government crowd. They're also convinced Linux belongs on the desktop--as opposed to (for instance) Red Hat, which seems to have decided Linux desktops are for hobbyists.
He's right, by the way: the IT world is concentrating on SuSE and RH right now. That doesn't mean Gentoo/Debian/Mandrake/Slackware and the rest don't have a place, but none of these distros have done much to get themselves certified for government adoption. SuSE has. Power to 'em.
I like SuSE, and have put 8.2 Professional on five machines in the past few months. My friends love it. It's an easy install, and yast is a convenient manager. SuSE goes naturally with KDE.
The only computer in my life that isn't running SuSE is my iBook, which uses Yellow Dog 3.0. It's tough to beat Terrasoft's Mac hardware support.
I'm happy to buy from a company that's passionate about the platform and knows how to play hardball with Microsoft.
I've been running OS X on a 300 MHZ Biondi Blue iBook since the final beta. It runs reasonably well on 288MB of RAM.
On the other hand, Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 sure works great. It's easy to configure for an Airport, and supports the iBook's power management features perfectly. It's an easier install than OS X, for that matter.
I think I'll reload YDL and see if I can live with it until the settlement is final.
I have seen bamboo and other wooden bikes done before.
As some folks have pointed out, the problem with wooden bikes is that they flex. Badly.
That means your chainline won't stay straight. It will rub, and the gears will try to shift by themselves. Note that the bamboo bike in the picture doesn't have derailleurs. There's a reason.
To reduce flex, you have to increase the diameter of the bamboo tubing. At some point, it becomes impractical-- rather like riding a tree trunk down the street.
The designer of this bamboo ride seems to have tried to compensate for the flexy tubing by adding a brace across the main diamond of the frame. It really won't help much if the rider is strong or heavy. The bottom bracket is gonna feel like it's made of rubber.
There's also the matter of frame alignment. I don't care what you coat bamboo with--it's going to change shape with temperature and humidity. Even casual riders on low-end bambo bikes will be frustrated by a ride that doesn't track in a straight line.
My dad used to race track bikes with wooden rims. They were notoriously dangerous. Riding a bicycle is risky enough without having to worry about being impaled by its wreckage.
If you're really concerned about the resources consumed by aluminim or titanium framesets, there's always steel. Modern steel bike tubing approaches the low weight of aluminum and provides more forgiving ride characteristics. There are also cabon fiber and composite alternatives.
The bamboo bike is a head-turner. But bamboo sucks as a bicycle frame material.
The problem with boxed distros is that they get stale almost immediately. That costs RH and the others bucks (as they eat the unsold copies with each new release).
Unfortunately, I think most potential mom-and-pop Linux converts will expect to be able to run down to Best Buy and find Linux-in-a-box. I just can't imagine 90% of the people I know downloading an ISO and burning an install disk.
Perhaps the distros could box disks that make a network install easy?
I bought a boxed set for the same reasons (go, SuSE!). If boxed distros suddenly disappeared, I'd probably subscribe the subscription service which would replace it.
> But oddly, ever sinice version 9 came out we've sold about 10 copies, if not more. But if you compare that to the number of MS Windows we've sold, it's something like 10-1. ...or about 10%. Just what you'd expect.
Yup, looks very much like Entourage (the Mac version of Outlook).
Evolution 1.4 was reasonably attractive, if not a bit slow. There's little there which would lure me from Kmail, though, since I prefer standalone clients.
My main problem with Ximian (in general) is the violence done by installing XD2 on Red Hat 9 and SuSE 8.2. On RH, it damaged my KDE desktop. On SuSE, it rendered the system unstable. I'm afraid to chance a standalone Evolution install.
You know, there's just no substitute for a properly trained pollworker and a real paper ballot. Most people live within walking distance of a polling station. Take your commitment to democracy seriously; get up early enough to show in person; stand in line; and make your opinion count. It's easy.
By side-by-side I meant dual boot, of course. Then again, you can run X in OS X these days. Not quite the same thing, but numerous Linux favorites now run under X in OS X. GIMP, for instance.
I use VMware at work to run legacy Windows apps, rather than dual booting. What a great program.
Perhaps someone will build a VMware-type program someday to emulate PPC on x86. In the meantime, though, it remains that the only computer which will dual-boot OS X and Linux is a Mac.
I'm not knocking x86, nor am I a Mac fanatic. but I think the new G5s are going to be a great investment. I'll own one this year.