Ok, that's very nice but it only confirms that Amazon is asking people not to use someone else's trademark. You might infer that RedHat is behind this somehow and you might be right, but this doesn't prove that. Even if RedHat had dropped a dime to Amazon about this (I kinda doubt it) they probably did it for the right reasons.
This doesn't look heavy handed or draconian to me. I don't see any threat of legal action. I see a request. Seems reasonable to me.
Amazon doesn't want to have to run on the bad side of either RedHat or its customers that might buy an un-official RedHat Linux CD without understanding what that means. What harm comes to a seller of these discs that has to sell them as 'Linux' vs 'RedHat Linux'?
Yeah, that's the kind of brilliant insight that always comes into this 'discussion' around unreal. How does a PII -333 w 128 MB and a riva 128zx "suck"?
Face facts, the game looks pretty but is about as much fun to play as a slide show.
I have been ticked at GT ever since they pushed Unreal out the door, oh, about a YEAR before it should have been published. I was all psyched up for Unreal but was horribly dissapointed at how poorly the game ran on my 'recommended' machine hardware. After following the discussions for a while at epic megagames' board, it seems obvious that GT was to blame for understating the system requirements and pushing an incomplete product out the door.
Sure, most new games have bugs and developers push numerous patches out the door soon after a game ships. My problem with Unreal was that it was so horribly broken right out of the box, and that it took sooo long for some of these issues to be fixed. The game shipped with Glide support only, IIRC. D3D and OpenGL were promised to be supplied in a patch, but it too forever, and I gave up. The multiplayer was horrible and has not really ever been fixed to my satisfaction.
I'm not really sure what my point is, just felt like ranting a little. Oh yeah, I remember: GT doesn't seem to be sharpest/ethical software publisher I have ever bought from.
Not anymore, really. You have to set 'willing to moderate' on your prefs, then you will get 5 points with which to moderate. When you've spent those points, you no longer can moderate until you get another 5 points. Availability of points seems to be driven by number of overall posts to/. and Rob seems to have tweaked this over time to make fewer points available.
I used to get moderator access every few weeks, but I've since changed my prefs to not willing to moderate. On the whole, I've found that the moderating doesn't do anything for me since I browse at -1 anyway and all I see happening is that ppl complain about it more than anything else.
If it works for you and you set your limit to +2, great. If you think it sucks, set your limit to -1 and change your prefs to not show scores at all. If you valuate your worth as a human being based on the scores given to you/. posts, you need to get a new hobby:)
Great, that's very encouraging. With the amount of flak they got the last time around, I would have to imagine they'd have to have their story together this time around. Can't wait.
Oh yes, indeed. Looks like some quality goodies can be had here. (disclaimer: I'm not a hardcore Mac fan) I've had an itch for quite a while now to delve into the PPC. I'll admit I was a little dissapointed at the G3 vs PentiumII claims so I'm a little skeptical about the 200% faster than a P!!! claims, but I'm willing to be convinced!
I fully expected MSNBC to spout this company line but I was a little surprised that CNN just regurgitated this woithout doing a little digging themselves. (tsk, tsk)
I think what I heard was "some web sites posted codes which allowed visitors to gain access to user's e-mail accounts without their permission. Once the code was made available, it began appearing on many web sites until Microsoft took action to stop the unauthorized access".
Bleah. Should have been along the lines of "a security hole was discovered which allowed others to access hotmail accounts without requiring a password of any kind. This information was quickly shared on the internet and several web pages were posted with the necessary information to allow visitors to easily access hotmail accounts. Microsoft took hotmail servers down until the security hole was corrected."
Crap.
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You're probably right. My experience is with traditional high-capacity tower-to-tower microwave links and with fixed wireless broadband. I know there is some talk of a W-CDMA high-speed data application for fixed wireless using the D-block PCS spectrum, but this is obviously not that.
I would agree that what you've described is a point to point system. What I had inferred from the web site was indeed a (potentially) large number of receivers in a non-focused transission area.
I guess this still leaves me with a question of how they can claim a 2-hour installation based on rolling a truck when my notion of a PtoP installation involves focusing setups at both ends of the trnsmission link. I also have trouble with how this would be any cheaper than the alternatves that exist.
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>Wireless net access over point-to-point microwave links is nothing new
Ah, but the headline for this article seems misleading. Looking over the actual pressrelease and other information on their website indicates that this is a spread-spectrun *broadcast* technology, rather than PtoP. Yes, the receiver must be fixed, but the cost of deploying antenna for broadcast-type access is far less than traditional microwave point-to-point links.
I did not see the term microwave anywhere other than on/.
Someone please correct me if this service requires setting up dedicated towers and dishes at the customer premise. I saw that 2 hour installation was promised and the picture on the web site looked more like a DBS-type receiver than it did a PtP link terminator.
Well exactly! I'm not proud to say this, but I've spent the better part of my career (13+ years) writing COBOL. Its not the best language in the world for every application, but I shudder at the idea of converting and supporting the 2 million+ lines of code we have in our back-end mainframe legacy system to C or any other language for that matter.
Inertia. Plain and simple. Our company has a client-server, C++, OO Open System platform billing system which is intended to replace our legacy systems. Guess what? Can't handle the millions of accounts that out mainframe systems can, and it can't keep up with the new features that are being deployed in the existing systems. Sure, in time they'll catch up in scalability and feature set, but it won't be in the next 12 months, I bet.
True, all the new systems are being developed without COBOL. This is for obvious reasons. This doesn't mean that COBOL is going away at the end of next year when the Y2K repair work is finished. It just means that there won't be many *new* projects using COBOL. There will still be like 80% of the existing business DP systems running legacy code that won't be replaced for years to come.
In a perfect world, I would love to be rid of COBOL. I just ain't necessarily so!
Right, I noticed this but I think that this was the only really obvious error. Overall, I thought the overview on Linux was pretty clueful. I think its far more important that they stated things like recent tests show windows is faster in *some* specific circumstances, and other balanced statements like that. I've seen a lot worse and on the whole I felt the article was well written and not half-bad for having been in mercurynews (maybe not the most tech-oriented pub, no?).
I assume your comments are directed at me? How was what I said not true or a flame?
It is a FACT that we have had problems with older versions of some office apps not able to read files created by newer versions. I did not say or mean to imply that office 2000 files could not be read by previous versions. I have no experience in this, I've yet to get any 2000-format files. I just said that it does happen.
And how did you come up with the inference that I think there is a 'desktopdatabase' or anything running on a linux box. I didn't even come close to it. I didn't say anything was bad or better than something else. I was just pointing out an instance where wine might not be a viable alternative to keeping up with ms office apps under win32.
>(Please pardon my sarcasm, the Redmond trolls have been out in full force today and I simply couldn't resist. I'm starting to suspect that the "Anti-Linux" group that Micros~1 was forming a while ago was just a bunch of script-kiddies they hired to post as AC's on Slashdot.)
I noticed that too, if that is the best they can do, we have nothing to worry about.
Hell, I would welcome alternative viewpoints if they were presented with intelligent arguments - either there are no intelligent arguments for pro-windows, or those making the comments are a bunch of vacuum-cranium doodz with nothing better to do than show their stupidity.
Gee, I guess the Micro-Trolls are out in force today, huh? Is this the best that the anti-Linux task force can muster.
I fart in your general direction.:P
One of the things I like best about a separate GUI is that if an app hangs, I can kill X and restart it in a few seconds rather than have to reboot the whole OS, like when Word locks up twice a day here at work.
"If Bill Gates had a nickel for everytime I had to reboot... oh wait, he does!"
Right, these are good points, just have one comment:
>Oh, the new version doesn't work? Don't buy it.
The only flaw in this logic is something we have experienced IRL here at my job.
We do business with a major client, who, for some reason, is married to redmond and always has the very latest versions of MS Office. They send us documents in Word, powerpoint, excel, whatever in the newest file format, which of course we can't open with the previous version of the same MS Office programs (grr).
So we have to upgrade every machine in the office to office 95, then 97, now 2000 - so we can still exchange documents with our customer.
Now, in the scenario where we are using WINE to run Windows apps and then MS breaks compatibility with the new version, we would be skrewed because we can't excange documents with our Microsoft-happy customer.
Won't run them at all or they just run too fast to be playable? I ran into this when I tried to play commanche on a pentiumII and it was just too fast.
If this is the problem you can try moslo to slow your computer down to make the game playable. It works. (then you can give your older machine to me:-) )
>And setting up two ethernet cards in Linux is a bitch.
Not really. I was able to do it almost without trying. I used RH5.2 to install on my 486/100, I first put only one card in (SMC ether/ez ISA) and then did the install, telling it to use DHCP when it found the card during the setup. Once past the install, I started up X to make sure it was able to connect ok to my cable modem (no effort there, worked the first time) then shut it down and installed the second NIC (another SMC, different model - picked it up at a hardware show).
Then after reboot, I ran linuxconf, added the new card, gave it a static ip address, enabled packet forwarding and set the masquerading rules, and bam - had myself a cheap little box to share the cable connection with all the machines in my house. No real sweat at all.
Good idea. I've been just hitting the 'esc' button when I see that netscape had loaded 100% of whatever document it is getting from/. - then the banner and/or images just are broken. Sure is annoying tho when you are hitting preview and then submit and it takes ten minutes just to post a reply.
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Ok, that's very nice but it only confirms that Amazon is asking people not to use someone else's trademark. You might infer that RedHat is behind this somehow and you might be right, but this doesn't prove that. Even if RedHat had dropped a dime to Amazon about this (I kinda doubt it) they probably did it for the right reasons.
This doesn't look heavy handed or draconian to me. I don't see any threat of legal action. I see a request. Seems reasonable to me.
Amazon doesn't want to have to run on the bad side of either RedHat or its customers that might buy an un-official RedHat Linux CD without understanding what that means. What harm comes to a seller of these discs that has to sell them as 'Linux' vs 'RedHat Linux'?
Yeah, that's the kind of brilliant insight that always comes into this 'discussion' around unreal. How does a PII -333 w 128 MB and a riva 128zx "suck"?
Face facts, the game looks pretty but is about as much fun to play as a slide show.
This may start a whole flame war, I don't care.
I have been ticked at GT ever since they pushed Unreal out the door, oh, about a YEAR before it should have been published. I was all psyched up for Unreal but was horribly dissapointed at how poorly the game ran on my 'recommended' machine hardware. After following the discussions for a while at epic megagames' board, it seems obvious that GT was to blame for understating the system requirements and pushing an incomplete product out the door.
Sure, most new games have bugs and developers push numerous patches out the door soon after a game ships. My problem with Unreal was that it was so horribly broken right out of the box, and that it took sooo long for some of these issues to be fixed. The game shipped with Glide support only, IIRC. D3D and OpenGL were promised to be supplied in a patch, but it too forever, and I gave up. The multiplayer was horrible and has not really ever been fixed to my satisfaction.
I'm not really sure what my point is, just felt like ranting a little. Oh yeah, I remember: GT doesn't seem to be sharpest/ethical software publisher I have ever bought from.
Not anymore, really. You have to set 'willing to moderate' on your prefs, then you will get 5 points with which to moderate. When you've spent those points, you no longer can moderate until you get another 5 points. Availability of points seems to be driven by number of overall posts to /. and Rob seems to have tweaked this over time to make fewer points available.
/. posts, you need to get a new hobby :)
I used to get moderator access every few weeks, but I've since changed my prefs to not willing to moderate. On the whole, I've found that the moderating doesn't do anything for me since I browse at -1 anyway and all I see happening is that ppl complain about it more than anything else.
If it works for you and you set your limit to +2, great. If you think it sucks, set your limit to -1 and change your prefs to not show scores at all. If you valuate your worth as a human being based on the scores given to you
I think I saw something like $3999 when it ships later. look here as I think it was on MacCentral that I saw that.
Great, that's very encouraging. With the amount of flak they got the last time around, I would have to imagine they'd have to have their story together this time around. Can't wait.
Oh yes, indeed. Looks like some quality goodies can be had here. (disclaimer: I'm not a hardcore Mac fan) I've had an itch for quite a while now to delve into the PPC. I'll admit I was a little dissapointed at the G3 vs PentiumII claims so I'm a little skeptical about the 200% faster than a P!!! claims, but I'm willing to be convinced!
Even CNN was buying this.
I fully expected MSNBC to spout this company line but I was a little surprised that CNN just regurgitated this woithout doing a little digging themselves. (tsk, tsk)
I think what I heard was "some web sites posted codes which allowed visitors to gain access to user's e-mail accounts without their permission. Once the code was made available, it began appearing on many web sites until Microsoft took action to stop the unauthorized access".
Bleah. Should have been along the lines of "a security hole was discovered which allowed others to access hotmail accounts without requiring a password of any kind. This information was quickly shared on the internet and several web pages were posted with the necessary information to allow visitors to easily access hotmail accounts. Microsoft took hotmail servers down until the security hole was corrected."
Crap.
You're probably right. My experience is with traditional high-capacity tower-to-tower microwave links and with fixed wireless broadband. I know there is some talk of a W-CDMA high-speed data application for fixed wireless using the D-block PCS spectrum, but this is obviously not that.
I would agree that what you've described is a point to point system. What I had inferred from the web site was indeed a (potentially) large number of receivers in a non-focused transission area.
I guess this still leaves me with a question of how they can claim a 2-hour installation based on rolling a truck when my notion of a PtoP installation involves focusing setups at both ends of the trnsmission link. I also have trouble with how this would be any cheaper than the alternatves that exist.
>Wireless net access over point-to-point microwave links is nothing new
/.
Ah, but the headline for this article seems misleading. Looking over the actual pressrelease and other information on their website indicates that this is a spread-spectrun *broadcast* technology, rather than PtoP. Yes, the receiver must be fixed, but the cost of deploying antenna for broadcast-type access is far less than traditional microwave point-to-point links.
I did not see the term microwave anywhere other than on
Someone please correct me if this service requires setting up dedicated towers and dishes at the customer premise. I saw that 2 hour installation was promised and the picture on the web site looked more like a DBS-type receiver than it did a PtP link terminator.
Well exactly! I'm not proud to say this, but I've spent the better part of my career (13+ years) writing COBOL. Its not the best language in the world for every application, but I shudder at the idea of converting and supporting the 2 million+ lines of code we have in our back-end mainframe legacy system to C or any other language for that matter.
Inertia. Plain and simple. Our company has a client-server, C++, OO Open System platform billing system which is intended to replace our legacy systems. Guess what? Can't handle the millions of accounts that out mainframe systems can, and it can't keep up with the new features that are being deployed in the existing systems. Sure, in time they'll catch up in scalability and feature set, but it won't be in the next 12 months, I bet.
True, all the new systems are being developed without COBOL. This is for obvious reasons. This doesn't mean that COBOL is going away at the end of next year when the Y2K repair work is finished. It just means that there won't be many *new* projects using COBOL. There will still be like 80% of the existing business DP systems running legacy code that won't be replaced for years to come.
In a perfect world, I would love to be rid of COBOL. I just ain't necessarily so!
Right, I noticed this but I think that this was the only really obvious error. Overall, I thought the overview on Linux was pretty clueful. I think its far more important that they stated things like recent tests show windows is faster in *some* specific circumstances, and other balanced statements like that. I've seen a lot worse and on the whole I felt the article was well written and not half-bad for having been in mercurynews (maybe not the most tech-oriented pub, no?).
Well, I didn't think it was *that* bad.
Yeah, it was out of commision fo an hour or so, but wineHQ has been MIA since yesterday.
Jesus, calm down.
I assume your comments are directed at me? How was what I said not true or a flame?
It is a FACT that we have had problems with older versions of some office apps not able to read files created by newer versions. I did not say or mean to imply that office 2000 files could not be read by previous versions. I have no experience in this, I've yet to get any 2000-format files. I just said that it does happen.
And how did you come up with the inference that I think there is a 'desktopdatabase' or anything running on a linux box. I didn't even come close to it. I didn't say anything was bad or better than something else. I was just pointing out an instance where wine might not be a viable alternative to keeping up with ms office apps under win32.
Christ, go un-knot your underwear, or something?
Bah, I botched the quote I saw someone had:
.05);
"If Bill Gates only had a nickel for everytime Windows crashed... oh wait, he does!"
Implying that
bill_gates_net = (number_of_all windows_crashes_throughout_time *
>(Please pardon my sarcasm, the Redmond trolls have been out in full force today and I simply couldn't resist. I'm starting to suspect that the "Anti-Linux" group that Micros~1 was forming a while ago was just a bunch of script-kiddies they hired to post as AC's on Slashdot.)
I noticed that too, if that is the best they can do, we have nothing to worry about.
Hell, I would welcome alternative viewpoints if they were presented with intelligent arguments - either there are no intelligent arguments for pro-windows, or those making the comments are a bunch of vacuum-cranium doodz with nothing better to do than show their stupidity.
There is a dire shortage of available moderation points today, for sure.
:-) )
Can't moderate when no points show up. (uh, not that I would know
Gee, I guess the Micro-Trolls are out in force today, huh? Is this the best that the anti-Linux task force can muster.
:P
I fart in your general direction.
One of the things I like best about a separate GUI is that if an app hangs, I can kill X and restart it in a few seconds rather than have to reboot the whole OS, like when Word locks up twice a day here at work.
"If Bill Gates had a nickel for everytime I had to reboot... oh wait, he does!"
Naw, we communicate quite happily with doc, xls, ppt files. Its just a pain when the new Office comes out and we are forced to upgrade.
>Maybe you could hijack that satelite with the giant ballon when it flys by earth tonight.
I thought the giant baloon was collecting anti-matter?
Is Cassinni the space probe powered by plutonim that is doing a sling-shot flyby the one you're maybe thingking of?
Right, these are good points, just have one comment:
>Oh, the new version doesn't work? Don't buy it.
The only flaw in this logic is something we have experienced IRL here at my job.
We do business with a major client, who, for some reason, is married to redmond and always has the very latest versions of MS Office. They send us documents in Word, powerpoint, excel, whatever in the newest file format, which of course we can't open with the previous version of the same MS Office programs (grr).
So we have to upgrade every machine in the office to office 95, then 97, now 2000 - so we can still exchange documents with our customer.
Now, in the scenario where we are using WINE to run Windows apps and then MS breaks compatibility with the new version, we would be skrewed because we can't excange documents with our Microsoft-happy customer.
er, linuxconf *does* run under a gui in RedHat, called 'control-panel'.
Just as easy to use as any NT interface I've ever tried!
Won't run them at all or they just run too fast to be playable? I ran into this when I tried to play commanche on a pentiumII and it was just too fast.
:-) )
If this is the problem you can try moslo to slow your computer down to make the game playable. It works. (then you can give your older machine to me
>And setting up two ethernet cards in Linux is a bitch.
Not really. I was able to do it almost without trying. I used RH5.2 to install on my 486/100, I first put only one card in (SMC ether/ez ISA) and then did the install, telling it to use DHCP when it found the card during the setup. Once past the install, I started up X to make sure it was able to connect ok to my cable modem (no effort there, worked the first time) then shut it down and installed the second NIC (another SMC, different model - picked it up at a hardware show).
Then after reboot, I ran linuxconf, added the new card, gave it a static ip address, enabled packet forwarding and set the masquerading rules, and bam - had myself a cheap little box to share the cable connection with all the machines in my house. No real sweat at all.
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/. - then the banner and/or images just are broken. Sure is annoying tho when you are hitting preview and then submit and it takes ten minutes just to post a reply.
Good idea. I've been just hitting the 'esc' button when I see that netscape had loaded 100% of whatever document it is getting from