I've been using the same list for approximately a year now. I've read 65 of the current top 100 and it has helped me uncover some gems that I would have never been exposed to. The only one I caution you to stay away from is "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White.
Anybody who enjoyed the first movie will get a belly full of laughs out of this one. Mind you you have to wait a bit until they are done rehashing the old bits from the first movie. The new material was right on track and in most cases much funnier than the original.
As a former employee to one of PTC's largest customers I can seem the immediate benefit of porting ProE to Linux. It will cost a lot less!!!
Instead of buying $20,000 HP or Sun machines you can by a $5,000-10,000 Intel machine. Then instead of paying MS $500 a seat for Windows NT you pay $0 for Linux licenses.
So lets say you have 4,000 MCAD engineers. Your regular cost would be (20K * 4K) + (.5K * 4K) = 82K and with the Linux solution it would be (10K * 4K) + (0 * 4K) = 40K. What business in their right mind wouldn't want to knock their costs in half.
This is more FUD from MS. How are they ever going to ship a scalled down version of Windows NT for thin servers.
Contrary to earlier MS press releases they are increasing the number of Windows variants not decreasing. Soon we'll see Win95, Win98, Win98 version 2, WinNT, WinCE, and Windows 2000.
I wouldn't bet on this thin server version of NT being out before 2010.
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I made a .lit version so that I could read it on the go.
http://simonmacdonald.blogspot.com/2007/09/cory-doctorows-short-story-scroogled.html
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I've been using the same list for approximately a year now. I've read 65 of the current top 100 and it has helped me uncover some gems that I would have never been exposed to. The only one I caution you to stay away from is "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White.
The CIBC site works under Linux using Netscape 4.7. I haven't tried with Lynx yet. That would be interesting.
Anybody who enjoyed the first movie will get a belly full of laughs out of this one. Mind you you have to wait a bit until they are done rehashing the old bits from the first movie. The new material was right on track and in most cases much funnier than the original.
As a former employee to one of PTC's largest customers I can seem the immediate benefit of porting ProE to Linux. It will cost a lot less!!!
Instead of buying $20,000 HP or Sun machines you can by a $5,000-10,000 Intel machine. Then instead of paying MS $500 a seat for Windows NT you pay $0 for Linux licenses.
So lets say you have 4,000 MCAD engineers. Your regular cost would be (20K * 4K) + (.5K * 4K) = 82K and with the Linux solution it would be (10K * 4K) + (0 * 4K) = 40K. What business in their right mind wouldn't want to knock their costs in half.
This is one of the original arguements that IT gurus used to open the door for NT.
Now Microsoft is fragmenting their operation system offerings all by themselves.
LOL!
Contrary to earlier MS press releases they are increasing the number of Windows variants not decreasing. Soon we'll see Win95, Win98, Win98 version 2, WinNT, WinCE, and Windows 2000.
I wouldn't bet on this thin server version of NT being out before 2010.