bought my wife (who knows just enough about computers to use them)a new laoptop for xmas she hated vista immediately( complained about how slow it was compred to her old p3 desktop running win2k)i blew out vista and immediately installed xp-pro and she loved it now
While I was working for an AeroSpace Sub-contractor in 72/73 we built prototype 38 inch removable HD platters for IBM.
These were built using different core materials (mag V honeycomb) and various bonding materials/techniques.
I don't know if they ever went into production, since I joined the Army before the project was finished.
There I learned to operate a 258lb portable computer - powered by a towed generator - that had 12k of core memory and a 8-level paper tape reader.
"Total domination is bad. The Microsoft dominance already badly misled people about how to choose systems. Instead of 'what tool do I use for the job' it's 'well it was shipped with the box'. Linux is a tool, Windows is a tool and so are numerous other systems. It's really important people go back to looking for the right tool for the job. That will never always be Linux. No single tool can do everything well."
Alan Cox
DOE labs have more important secret GOV info than the DOD does. These are the people who test and design our Nukes and create other technologies most of us will never hear about.
Our enemies would much rather hack the DOE than the DOD.
Who in their right mind connects ANY computer with access to important data to the Internet? Of course we know that answer is most businesses and GOV agencies.
The offices I'm tasked with securing have 2+ unconnected networks - 1+ for LAN access, and 1 for Internet access. NONE of the computers are connected to the LAN(s) and the Internet. Bridging your network to the outside World is how all these fools get hacked.
ICANN acted to protect the financial interests of those companies who charge us extra for PRIVACY. If privacy is a problem, then why are we able to buy it, but not get it for free?
What we need is an OPEN solution, where for a single low administrative cost fee I can have my WHOIS data private for all of my domains - not the per domain fees being charged by for-profit companies now.
Someone like the EFF should step forward and provide us the solution ICANN will not.
I've set up and administerred email severs for ISPs since the Internet was converted from a GOV operation to a commercial entity in 1994.
All email server administrators have to make choices about how much to filter users email for SPAM and how to handle Virus/Worm/etc infected messages.
Some companies go beyond the norm and have their virus filters rejecting email as "infected" when in reality it isn't.
Example: Godaddy.com treats ANY email message with a link to ANY geocities.com page in it as "infected". At first they were returning the messages to the sender with an infected email error message. Many people complained, so Godaddy had to do something.
They figured that the main reason people were complaining was the rejection messages.
GD SOLUTION: dump the messages without notifying the person the message was from/to that this is happening. This has been going on for over a year.
You shouldn't assume that because you're not having a problem with your favorite email service that there can't be a problem affecting other users in a very negative way.
How can AIX be "obsolete" and Linux be leading edge?
/.ers never cease to amaze me with their ignorance of computer history.
1) Linux is just another flavor of UNIX.
2) it is NOT the most stable flavor of UNIX.
3) it is NOT to most feature packed flavor of UNIX.
4) it is far from being the most scaleable flavor of UNIX.
5) it does have some of the most lacking documentation I've seen since Microport UNIX.
This has NOT stopped me from using Slackware since 1994.
/.ers need to get used to the idea that Linus reverse engineered UNIX to create Linux - he did NOT invent a new OS. Linus is walking in the shoes of K&R and many other UNIX pioneers.
In 1980 I built a machine to manufacture Cement Pipes using the "centrifugal molding" ** process. The pipes are 20' in length and 1.5' to 6' in diameter - single or double wall thickness. If you live in S-California or S-Nevada then some of those pipes reside under your city streets.
** cement is fed into a spinning mold by a complex feeder (my part of the project) that rolls on small train rails, then put in to a steam room. 4 hours later you have a pipe outside the mold "curing" in the sun.
I purchase a 40' container in 1999, and moved my computer room in there to free up space in my home. I actually dedicated 24' (inner walls, insulated, w/ side exit door) to my computer room, while using the remaining space to store my Jetskis and Motorcycle.
I can tell you that a 8465 pound steel container makes a Tough Shed seem like a doll house while the per sq ft cost is less than half as much.
Several years ago I disabled cookies in IE and found it broke YIM. I decided this made YIM a security risk and quickly switched to Trillian for all my IM need. I have NEVER regretted making this change.
"We've seen plenty of examples where an attacker will actually create their attack either in or as part of a free security tool," said Greg Day of McAfee.
It's ironic that somone from McAfee would dog free products that compete with them. The only AV products I've found on customer systems that were disabled by an infestation were Norton and McAfee products. People running free AV and firewall products are at least as safe as those running Norton or McAfee.
This technology has been available to consumers in Japan for around 20 years. The himiwari (sunflower) is a product that caught my interest in the late 80s. I've been surprised this technology hadn't caught on here in the states already.
Q: Why is it that people think a technology didn't exist until they come in contact with it???
Example: Linux is reverse engineered UNIX, not a new OS from scratch. However, Linux IS the most popular flavor of UNIX (so far), which is no small accomplishment.
One thing OFTEN forgotten by many citizens of the United States when travelling and/or living outside the country is that your Constitutional rights do NOT follow you outside the country.
Also keep in mind that when a USA citizen breaks the rules in many countries it is often treated as SPYING, which can make put you in the position of being a pawn in some political game you're completely unaware of. The host country can decide to put on a "show trial" and/or jail you to try and trade you for one of their spies sitting in one of our jails.
There are allot of battles being fought around the World by and against the USA that our citizens are completely unaware of. Example: we have troops in over 100 countries around the World.
Famous last words for many USA citizens when caught doing something wrong on foreign soil are "you can't do this to me I'm an American". Allot of these people are rotting in prisons that make ours look like 5 star hotels.
Do yourself a favor and stay in the USA unless you plan to play by the host country's rules 100%, and to keep your mouth shut about any of those rules you think are wrong.
For heat using a portable or wall mounted catalytic heater that uses natural gas or propane will do the trick. It has no fan/motor, so it needs no electric power to heat a room. I've heated a medium sized two story house with two of these during power outages with snow on the ground.
For your computers an alternative to a generator would be a combination of deep cycle batteries (car batteries are NOT good for this application), and battery charger, and an inverter (to convert low volt DC back to high volt AC). Make sure the inverter is safe for electronic devices, since not all of them are. This isn't really cheaper than a low end generator, but will be kinder to your electronic devices. Some 12v lighting would reduce the load your inverter would have to carry allowing you to purchase a smaller unit.
A better place to find answers to this question would be a news group that covers the topic in question.
Carver Mead has done more for the computer industry than Linus, Mr. Bill, or most of the others on that list.
READ about him before you judge this statement.
Not having him on this "Agenda Setters" list undermines it's validity.
> There are many pro-Linux assumptions such as
> that Sco opened the source by distribution
> Caldera made any putative copyright violation
> legal since they were doing it themselves.
> This is an assumption you cannot make without
> a legal decision.
> This document adds nothing to the debate.
YES... thanks!!!
Even if the person(s) who did this were an IP lawyer(s) in AU that would mean nothing in the USA where laws are VERY different.
I could find no mention of "qualifications" on the site in question, so it might be safe to assume this person(s) has none. Somone might want to mention this to the author(s).
Don't you just love people with absolutely no qualifications rendering legal opinions that are often pure BS???
Sales made online and shipped to customers is just another flavor of mail order, and keeping these sales "tax free" will not last much longer.
The idea Internet as a tax free zone was accepted during the dot-com boom only because those businesses had the funding to "buy politicians off" on rules for taxation.
If online sales outlets don't get wise and jump on existing rules for mail order taxation the States will end up taxing them even more than conventional mail order sales are taxed today.
I knew this thread would be loaded with uninformed BS by those who don't have the techinical skills to contribute to the advancement of Linux in ANY way.
The easiest way to explain this is to remind the uninformed that Linux is an incomplete copy of UNIX... NOT the reverse!!!
If you have ANY doubts about this, then ask someone who really knows what UNIX features are not yet implemented in Linux like Linus, Alan Cox, Eric Raymond, Patrick Volkerding, or someone else who REALLY knows what they are talking about.
After working with various flavors of commercial and free UNIX since 1985 I still feel unqualified to explain OS design and implementation to someone who has ZERO understanding of the subject.
BTW, Alan Cox has already explained that Linux is just a tool. Some of you that have made it your religion should heed his words:)
"Total domination is bad. The Microsoft dominance already badly misled people about how to choose systems. Instead of 'what tool do I use for the job' it's 'well it was shipped with the box'. Linux is a tool, Windows is a tool and so are numerous other systems. It's really important people go back to looking for the right tool for the job. That will never always be Linux. No single tool can do everything well."
Alan Cox
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bought my wife (who knows just enough about computers to use them)a new laoptop for xmas she hated vista immediately( complained about how slow it was compred to her old p3 desktop running win2k)i blew out vista and immediately installed xp-pro and she loved it now
loves it now
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The people who send junk faxes behaved for awhile, but now ignore the law.
It's been my experience that the phone solicitors are starting to ignore the donotcall registry too.
Many are also not blocking caller-id now, since many phone companies allow you to automatically block unidentified callers.
The problem in both laws is lack of enforcement by the GOV, and restricted options for individuals.
While I was working for an AeroSpace Sub-contractor in 72/73 we built prototype 38 inch removable HD platters for IBM.
These were built using different core materials (mag V honeycomb) and various bonding materials/techniques.
I don't know if they ever went into production, since I joined the Army before the project was finished.
There I learned to operate a 258lb portable computer - powered by a towed generator - that had 12k of core memory and a 8-level paper tape reader.
"Total domination is bad. The Microsoft dominance already badly misled people about how to choose systems. Instead of 'what tool do I use for the job' it's 'well it was shipped with the box'. Linux is a tool, Windows is a tool and so are numerous other systems. It's really important people go back to looking for the right tool for the job. That will never always be Linux. No single tool can do everything well." Alan Cox
DOE labs have more important secret GOV info than the DOD does. These are the people who test and design our Nukes and create other technologies most of us will never hear about.
Our enemies would much rather hack the DOE than the DOD.
The offices I'm tasked with securing have 2+ unconnected networks - 1+ for LAN access, and 1 for Internet access. NONE of the computers are connected to the LAN(s) and the Internet. Bridging your network to the outside World is how all these fools get hacked.
This is NOT Rocket Science.
What we need is an OPEN solution, where for a single low administrative cost fee I can have my WHOIS data private for all of my domains - not the per domain fees being charged by for-profit companies now.
Someone like the EFF should step forward and provide us the solution ICANN will not.
All email server administrators have to make choices about how much to filter users email for SPAM and how to handle Virus/Worm/etc infected messages.
Some companies go beyond the norm and have their virus filters rejecting email as "infected" when in reality it isn't.
Example: Godaddy.com treats ANY email message with a link to ANY geocities.com page in it as "infected". At first they were returning the messages to the sender with an infected email error message. Many people complained, so Godaddy had to do something.
They figured that the main reason people were complaining was the rejection messages.
GD SOLUTION: dump the messages without notifying the person the message was from/to that this is happening. This has been going on for over a year.
You shouldn't assume that because you're not having a problem with your favorite email service that there can't be a problem affecting other users in a very negative way.
1) Linux is just another flavor of UNIX.
2) it is NOT the most stable flavor of UNIX.
3) it is NOT to most feature packed flavor of UNIX.
4) it is far from being the most scaleable flavor of UNIX.
5) it does have some of the most lacking documentation I've seen since Microport UNIX.
This has NOT stopped me from using Slackware since 1994.
Want to do your part to fight "global warming", then dump that SUV for something that gets at least 25MPG and stop eating beef.
** cement is fed into a spinning mold by a complex feeder (my part of the project) that rolls on small train rails, then put in to a steam room. 4 hours later you have a pipe outside the mold "curing" in the sun.
I purchase a 40' container in 1999, and moved my computer room in there to free up space in my home. I actually dedicated 24' (inner walls, insulated, w/ side exit door) to my computer room, while using the remaining space to store my Jetskis and Motorcycle. I can tell you that a 8465 pound steel container makes a Tough Shed seem like a doll house while the per sq ft cost is less than half as much.
Several years ago I disabled cookies in IE and found it broke YIM. I decided this made YIM a security risk and quickly switched to Trillian for all my IM need. I have NEVER regretted making this change.
It's ironic that somone from McAfee would dog free products that compete with them. The only AV products I've found on customer systems that were disabled by an infestation were Norton and McAfee products. People running free AV and firewall products are at least as safe as those running Norton or McAfee.
This is a no-brainer.
Slackware is still my favorite flavor of Linux. Slackware is Linux for UNIX techies.
Q: Why is it that people think a technology didn't exist until they come in contact with it???
Example: Linux is reverse engineered UNIX, not a new OS from scratch. However, Linux IS the most popular flavor of UNIX (so far), which is no small accomplishment.
Also keep in mind that when a USA citizen breaks the rules in many countries it is often treated as SPYING, which can make put you in the position of being a pawn in some political game you're completely unaware of. The host country can decide to put on a "show trial" and/or jail you to try and trade you for one of their spies sitting in one of our jails.
There are allot of battles being fought around the World by and against the USA that our citizens are completely unaware of. Example: we have troops in over 100 countries around the World.
Famous last words for many USA citizens when caught doing something wrong on foreign soil are "you can't do this to me I'm an American". Allot of these people are rotting in prisons that make ours look like 5 star hotels.
Do yourself a favor and stay in the USA unless you plan to play by the host country's rules 100%, and to keep your mouth shut about any of those rules you think are wrong.
I had a 13 year old kid tell me "I know everything about computers". I grinned, and sold him a modem for his mom's computer.
For heat using a portable or wall mounted catalytic heater that uses natural gas or propane will do the trick. It has no fan/motor, so it needs no electric power to heat a room. I've heated a medium sized two story house with two of these during power outages with snow on the ground.
For your computers an alternative to a generator would be a combination of deep cycle batteries (car batteries are NOT good for this application), and battery charger, and an inverter (to convert low volt DC back to high volt AC). Make sure the inverter is safe for electronic devices, since not all of them are. This isn't really cheaper than a low end generator, but will be kinder to your electronic devices. Some 12v lighting would reduce the load your inverter would have to carry allowing you to purchase a smaller unit.
A better place to find answers to this question would be a news group that covers the topic in question.
Carver Mead has done more for the computer industry than Linus, Mr. Bill, or most of the others on that list.
READ about him before you judge this statement.
Not having him on this "Agenda Setters" list undermines it's validity.
> There are many pro-Linux assumptions such as
> that Sco opened the source by distribution
> Caldera made any putative copyright violation
> legal since they were doing it themselves.
> This is an assumption you cannot make without
> a legal decision.
> This document adds nothing to the debate.
YES ... thanks!!!
Even if the person(s) who did this were an IP lawyer(s) in AU that would mean nothing in the USA where laws are VERY different.
I could find no mention of "qualifications" on the site in question, so it might be safe to assume this person(s) has none. Somone might want to mention this to the author(s).
Don't you just love people with absolutely no qualifications rendering legal opinions that are often pure BS???
Sales made online and shipped to customers is just another flavor of mail order, and keeping these sales "tax free" will not last much longer.
The idea Internet as a tax free zone was accepted during the dot-com boom only because those businesses had the funding to "buy politicians off" on rules for taxation.
If online sales outlets don't get wise and jump on existing rules for mail order taxation the States will end up taxing them even more than conventional mail order sales are taxed today.
The easiest way to explain this is to remind the uninformed that Linux is an incomplete copy of UNIX ... NOT the reverse!!!
If you have ANY doubts about this, then ask someone who really knows what UNIX features are not yet implemented in Linux like Linus, Alan Cox, Eric Raymond, Patrick Volkerding, or someone else who REALLY knows what they are talking about.
After working with various flavors of commercial and free UNIX since 1985 I still feel unqualified to explain OS design and implementation to someone who has ZERO understanding of the subject.
BTW, Alan Cox has already explained that Linux is just a tool. Some of you that have made it your religion should heed his words :)
"Total domination is bad. The Microsoft dominance already badly misled people about how to choose systems. Instead of 'what tool do I use for the job' it's 'well it was shipped with the box'. Linux is a tool, Windows is a tool and so are numerous other systems. It's really important people go back to looking for the right tool for the job. That will never always be Linux. No single tool can do everything well." Alan Cox