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Sun's just been overtaken by events. If anything, they ought to be an attractive buyout target for somebody (IBM, Apple). Solaris is still a good OS, Java's still a good technology.
I will say this, I think they're in better shape than SGI -- but that's not saying much.
I remember awhile back when those $1000 Sun workstations were released. One of the most cogent responses I saw was something to the extent of, four years ago, I'd have one on order already, now I just don't care.
You can have an amazing *nix workstation on PC hardware. If you want polish and flash, buy a Mac (he says as he types this on the iBook he just bought....)
1. AOL doesn't want other agencies snooping into its network, because it'd make it easier to find out the other illegal stuff going on in there. Nice, wholesome kiddie pr0n, for example. The fewer eyes that aren't theirs, the better.
2. Yes, TW is in the music business. They don't have a good way, however, of preventing filesharing from happening. As others have poined out, the slow speeds within AOL itself are enough of a deterrant there -- where they ought to be concerned is in the TW broadband area.
So they're gonna cool their jets and see what happnes. Makes sense to me.
Except that a continuous loop tape has an inherently longer lifecycle than a cassette.
This is why a variant of the 8-track, the audio cart, is still a staple of radio stations. We've got some that have probably been in use (the tape part itself) for twenty years, and some with audio on them that have been used pretty much everyday for about seven.
I'll just say, that 2000 would be preferable to most of the radio automation systems I've seen which either run on DOS or Win9x. Of course, the optimal platform for something like radio automation would be umm....QNX maybe? OSX would be better, too.
I work in news/talk. Nice, clear, AM.:-) Occasionally people will call up the studio line, having looked up the wrong number and ask to hear #include.
My response?
"Yeah, I'll get that on for ya."
Meh. Listeners are more clueless than most program directors when it comes to choosing music anyway.
All-request shows sound, well, like college radio -- without form or focus -- Public Enemy into a Glenn Campbell record. I happen to like both of them, but they don't go together.
See if I pay it. Wanna take me to court? Okay, do so. I'd rather pay an attorney than hand money over to you.
And if everybody takes this tact, they'll back off. These cowards from Caldera/SCO have been waiting to do something like this for a long time. I don't trust them and never have.
Of course, they won't sue me, an individual user. They'll sue RedHat, as the story says. They'll sue SuSE. They'll sue Mandrake. Let's see them sue the Debian Project, while they're at it and get the EFF involved.
Until I hear that this is false, I'm boycotting SCO.
Off to look through the debian packages to find ones contributed by Caldera and remove them....
1. The cooling for the drives looks to be less-than-optimal. I tend to run SCSI drives in my systems, and many of them get hot. The intake for the fans would also pull air right off my nice cool 19" monitor, seeing as how my monitor is to the right of the tower.
2. There's a reason cables come out of the *back* of a computer -- you can route them to wherever you want them. Looking at this case, all the cables come out of the left side of the case. Looking at my desk, my tower is on the left side (which is by the wall). So with this, I'd have to route the cables *around* the back of the case....
Ob/.CaseMod: Where would you put the window and the neon lights?
So I'm boycotting Microsoft, too, until they release Office for *nix.
In a sense, though, this is kind of what is supposed to happen with big customers.
But it is sad that the emphasis seemed to be getting MS software. They should have bought from whomever decided to provide the software in their language.
How possible is that? Do any of these bootloaders have drivers for USB, USB2 or FireWire? One of the really cool things about Mac hardware is OpenFirmware, which makes possible booting off of the network (no matter if your card explicitly supports it in its own ROM or not), USBx, FireWire or SCSI.
Using grub, it *might* be possible using a firewire drive, assuming the BIOS recognizes it as such at boot time. i.e. grub-install/dev/hda hd0=/dev/hda, hd1=/dev/sda
But, as I said, you'd have to recognize it as such at boot time. The only way I could really see this working would be with a cardbus scsi controller that's bootable.
Get some of the basic shell instructions that are provided for new users. Normally it's just a few sheets long, and describes how to login to the system, how to move files, how to check e-mail, yadda yadda yadda.
This kind of basic stuff, I think, is more important than any book one could read. After someone is somewhat proficient just navigating around, then the books become interesting and relevant.
Teach the new user how to use vi.
Although nano/pico are more user-friendly, and you may like emacs (although I think that's nuts), any system the new user logs into will have some variant of vi. The use doesn't have to go much beyond describing the two modes, and how to insert and delete text.
It would seem that anyone who could get internet access could potentially affect networks. Should they regulate AOL distributing CD's with a thousand free hours? I mean, the terrorists could easily use a stolen credit card (oh, I'm sure they'd have qualms about doing that...)to get initial access....
Okay, so they wouldn't be moving as fast as they would going through a corporate network.
But if a LAN Admin is stupid enough to leave his access points open (with access to the outside world), then the company gets what it deserves for hiring an MSCE to do its network design.
Yes, I run an open AP at home (and there's nothing really interesting to look at, I assure you), but I'm not to the point where I think it's a good idea to put one on the network at work. It's been discussed before, and it'd just be more difficult than it's worth.
Virginia's Atty General is a screaming big business type. Furthermore, they weren't party to the original suit.
But the Commonwealth has nothing to do with the City of Virginia Beach's jank, anyway. The city is pretty much an independent government, as far as day-to-day (including computer) operations go.
Which means....there won't be a new Athlon release to match whatever Intel releases with the P4, and the Opteron will be mega expensive, probably price-competetive with the Itanic.
For whatever reason, it seems to me that AMD has been underpricing their stuff, and it hasn't worked. I paid like $179 for the AthlonXP 1700 I bought a few months back. The equivalent P4 was quite a bit more expensive. The Mobo's were like ten bucks different.
It appears that the patent is specifically targeting things that run substantially server-side, with a plugin to allow manipulation from the client side. One of the examples they used was manipulating X (they refer to it as X-Windows *gag*) on the server, remotely, through the browser.
That doesn't sound like flash, java, et. al., for the most part. You download the flash applet, which runs on your machine, not to manipulate something server side (unless you count basic navigation, blah blah blah).
I clicked on the little boxes....I thought it didn't work at first, until I remembered that I'd set Galeon up so that popups open in new tabs...but that kind of defeats the purpose here....
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Sun's just been overtaken by events. If anything, they ought to be an attractive buyout target for somebody (IBM, Apple). Solaris is still a good OS, Java's still a good technology.
I will say this, I think they're in better shape than SGI -- but that's not saying much.
I remember awhile back when those $1000 Sun workstations were released. One of the most cogent responses I saw was something to the extent of, four years ago, I'd have one on order already, now I just don't care.
You can have an amazing *nix workstation on PC hardware. If you want polish and flash, buy a Mac (he says as he types this on the iBook he just bought....)
1. AOL doesn't want other agencies snooping into its network, because it'd make it easier to find out the other illegal stuff going on in there. Nice, wholesome kiddie pr0n, for example. The fewer eyes that aren't theirs, the better.
2. Yes, TW is in the music business. They don't have a good way, however, of preventing filesharing from happening. As others have poined out, the slow speeds within AOL itself are enough of a deterrant there -- where they ought to be concerned is in the TW broadband area.
So they're gonna cool their jets and see what happnes. Makes sense to me.
Except that a continuous loop tape has an inherently longer lifecycle than a cassette.
This is why a variant of the 8-track, the audio cart, is still a staple of radio stations. We've got some that have probably been in use (the tape part itself) for twenty years, and some with audio on them that have been used pretty much everyday for about seven.
The serif, in particular, looks very nice on the screen.
OTOH, I've had situations where a font looks awful on the screen, and great on the page (i.e Bookman on Solaris under StarOffice).
...and hope you can salvage a few dollars for your shareholders after the Chapter 7 filing.
You could call it "Plan Be."
Didn't Caldera already sue Microsoft and lose?
I'll just say, that 2000 would be preferable to most of the radio automation systems I've seen which either run on DOS or Win9x. Of course, the optimal platform for something like radio automation would be umm....QNX maybe? OSX would be better, too.
I work in news/talk. Nice, clear, AM. :-) Occasionally people will call up the studio line, having looked up the wrong number and ask to hear #include .
My response?
"Yeah, I'll get that on for ya."
Meh. Listeners are more clueless than most program directors when it comes to choosing music anyway.
All-request shows sound, well, like college radio -- without form or focus -- Public Enemy into a Glenn Campbell record. I happen to like both of them, but they don't go together.
See if I pay it. Wanna take me to court? Okay, do so. I'd rather pay an attorney than hand money over to you.
And if everybody takes this tact, they'll back off. These cowards from Caldera/SCO have been waiting to do something like this for a long time. I don't trust them and never have.
Of course, they won't sue me, an individual user. They'll sue RedHat, as the story says. They'll sue SuSE. They'll sue Mandrake. Let's see them sue the Debian Project, while they're at it and get the EFF involved.
Until I hear that this is false, I'm boycotting SCO.
Off to look through the debian packages to find ones contributed by Caldera and remove them....
insert "wonder" after "one," I even used preview. This is what you get posting at 2:45 in the morning at work.
Lucky you....I've got a *gasp* AMD. :-D 45 minutes if I close the lid.
There are countless articles on this subject. We know the PC's are faster. In some cases signficantly faster.
But there are a variety of reasons for choosing a machine and platform, speed is not necessarily only the thing that comes into play.
For example, I, for one, just how long the battery on that super 1337 Alienware notebook lasts. It's probably not anywhere close to the Powerbook.
Oh well.
But doesn't anyone else see that this is pointless? Use what you like to use......
1. The cooling for the drives looks to be less-than-optimal. I tend to run SCSI drives in my systems, and many of them get hot. The intake for the fans would also pull air right off my nice cool 19" monitor, seeing as how my monitor is to the right of the tower.
2. There's a reason cables come out of the *back* of a computer -- you can route them to wherever you want them. Looking at this case, all the cables come out of the left side of the case. Looking at my desk, my tower is on the left side (which is by the wall). So with this, I'd have to route the cables *around* the back of the case....
Ob/.CaseMod: Where would you put the window and the neon lights?
So I'm boycotting Microsoft, too, until they release Office for *nix.
In a sense, though, this is kind of what is supposed to happen with big customers.
But it is sad that the emphasis seemed to be getting MS software. They should have bought from whomever decided to provide the software in their language.
Oh well.
Ehh, doesn't matter. Everybody looks at pr0n on the net, and waterproof keyboards are old news.
No mod points today. But my foes list still works, so you get auto-mod'd from now on.
GRUB:
/dev/hda hd0=/dev/hda, hd1=/dev/sda
How possible is that? Do any of these bootloaders have drivers for USB, USB2 or FireWire? One of the really cool things about Mac hardware is OpenFirmware, which makes possible booting off of the network (no matter if your card explicitly supports it in its own ROM or not), USBx, FireWire or SCSI.
Using grub, it *might* be possible using a firewire drive, assuming the BIOS recognizes it as such at boot time. i.e. grub-install
But, as I said, you'd have to recognize it as such at boot time. The only way I could really see this working would be with a cardbus scsi controller that's bootable.
If today's poll is any indication, perhaps tbere's some guilt goin' on there, boys?
Hmm?
Get some of the basic shell instructions that are provided for new users. Normally it's just a few sheets long, and describes how to login to the system, how to move files, how to check e-mail, yadda yadda yadda.
This kind of basic stuff, I think, is more important than any book one could read. After someone is somewhat proficient just navigating around, then the books become interesting and relevant.
Teach the new user how to use vi.
Although nano/pico are more user-friendly, and you may like emacs (although I think that's nuts), any system the new user logs into will have some variant of vi. The use doesn't have to go much beyond describing the two modes, and how to insert and delete text.
It would seem that anyone who could get internet access could potentially affect networks. Should they regulate AOL distributing CD's with a thousand free hours? I mean, the terrorists could easily use a stolen credit card (oh, I'm sure they'd have qualms about doing that...)to get initial access....
Okay, so they wouldn't be moving as fast as they would going through a corporate network.
But if a LAN Admin is stupid enough to leave his access points open (with access to the outside world), then the company gets what it deserves for hiring an MSCE to do its network design.
Yes, I run an open AP at home (and there's nothing really interesting to look at, I assure you), but I'm not to the point where I think it's a good idea to put one on the network at work. It's been discussed before, and it'd just be more difficult than it's worth.
Virginia's Atty General is a screaming big business type. Furthermore, they weren't party to the original suit.
But the Commonwealth has nothing to do with the City of Virginia Beach's jank, anyway. The city is pretty much an independent government, as far as day-to-day (including computer) operations go.
Actually, the cartoon referrenced in the other reply to you is what I was thinking of when I posted at 4:20 in the morning.
But I thought it was Daffy....
Hmmph.
Spanish scientists, doubting Christopher Columbus' trip to the "new world" will use the same telescope to prove that the Earth is flat.
Which means....there won't be a new Athlon release to match whatever Intel releases with the P4, and the Opteron will be mega expensive, probably price-competetive with the Itanic.
For whatever reason, it seems to me that AMD has been underpricing their stuff, and it hasn't worked. I paid like $179 for the AthlonXP 1700 I bought a few months back. The equivalent P4 was quite a bit more expensive. The Mobo's were like ten bucks different.
It appears that the patent is specifically targeting things that run substantially server-side, with a plugin to allow manipulation from the client side. One of the examples they used was manipulating X (they refer to it as X-Windows *gag*) on the server, remotely, through the browser.
That doesn't sound like flash, java, et. al., for the most part. You download the flash applet, which runs on your machine, not to manipulate something server side (unless you count basic navigation, blah blah blah).
I clicked on the little boxes....I thought it didn't work at first, until I remembered that I'd set Galeon up so that popups open in new tabs...but that kind of defeats the purpose here....