>Supposedly the mob is going to make things >difficult for us out there,
Which specific mob? Is it the nasty business climate in that city or that dominating software empire? Will they be sending out scouts to this one too? This guy told us at the ALS there were just two of them (he said he was just a consultant, yeah, yeah.)
I liked his reasoning about Y2K. He might be right. Who would want to be around a bunch of drunks on a thin skinned vessel traveling around 600 mph? Would you know for sure no one has slipped a few drinks in the cockpit? Hehehehe...
Was it just me or did those interview questions have a very long word count? They reminded me of exam questions that needed to be read carefully to digest the full content. More than one question in a question too. Despite that, he gave a great interview!
The most interesting disagreements happen at large companies. Even though things have been great at work the last few years, we had a class on workplace violence this morning. Great stories of people trapped in dead end jobs and going postal or terrorizing colleagues.
The world of free software does not compare. Colorful language is even rare and is hard to find on C.O.L.A. too. If I disagree, I feel very free to patch, cobble together, and distribute. So there!
It seems that many laws are pushed to regulate and control everything about software and communication, because it is power. It prevents the people who do the innovating from having any control or rights. If I write a program that takes advantage of crypto for security, I would be entering a nasty and perhaps expensive legal domain. No fun.
The lobbying groups of big software companies and consultants seem to make existing monopolies much more powerful. Thought laws (Intelectual Property laws) establish and protect monopolies. Ban them and you will once again have high quality and increased production in other areas. I see so much scrap at work because NT burps a lot.
and I love it! LSL shipped it priority mail and it did not take me long to get it going.
The distribution has the packages that match my personality. It was a nice surprise to have a great selection of scientific applications that are conviently installed. Other things caught my eye too, like the OJ screen saver.
For me, this is the ultimate distribution. I hope they enjoy the little donation from me in return.
Microwave ovens put out around 1 to 2 kilowatts. Size a narrow beam antenna on the waveguide and you can direct the beam and heat a cup of coffee across the street, start a fire, or . . . Not to mention magnetrons in commercial products have a lower vacuum and are electricaly noisy. Communication links will go down...
Now power one of these in a suitcase with high energy density lithium batteries and you have the weapon he's talking about.
I'm sending my licence back to Microsoft in one of those $3 priority mail envelopes to:
Microsoft Corp One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052
Asking my money back because it crashed too much that I installed Linux. Yep, I used it and it was a PTA. I may not be legally bound for a refund, but I'm asking for another reason: I tried it and found it was a lemon.
They may want us to think there is brutal competition while the courts are still in session so they would have some kind of justification for eliminating 95% of the competition. If I pulled the crimes they are accused of commiting on such a scale, I would be doing some time.
Its not cool to screw your customers. You don't make $50 billion by accident with poor quality. But, they most likely will, since they have rewritten history, bought up news and broadcasting firms, travel, etc... Its the dark side, its your destiny. Its a dark shade of blue and time for a reboot.
And this has happened with Linux. Some nut unwisely decided to just register the trademark of Linux and harass distros. The blind distribution by the patent office costs everyone. Its good business if you are a lawyer. Its not good business if you have to cave in to the extortion from all sides and have to pay "protection" for something you thought was common sense.
>Well america never stop astonishing me. Patent everything. Even human life! This is America. And America is also:
Welcome to America. World Domination. In this great country of America, we were all taught in our history books at a young age that our ascestors came over here on ships from England. It was easy to get a pass if you were a criminal or undesired. So a lot arrived on this contenent and had problems getting along with the Native Americans (indians.) Furthermore, some enterprising imigrants passed by Africa and kidnaped people of identifiable color for lifetime slavery. Let me tell you, talking about all this stuff is pretty much taboo here. But you get the idea. Some things never change. But they should.
Bill Gates is one of the last fucking assholes alive.
The Assembly-HOWTO is a rich source of leads for the particular processor implimentation you wish. Remember, that with each GNU assembler package, you will find a wealth of documentation in the tarball and the author's web page. Plus there is the ever handy google web page and dejanews powersearch (the regular search seems to be too dumbed down lately.)
BTW: I have a wealth of Z80 proggies and many with a GUI system (with mouse!) built in. I can post them on my web page if there is interest. I don't know if anyone still designs with the old reliable, but cumbersome Z80. All that and the largest program was 2000 lines!:)
>Yeah, but what if you invented that twisted door >hinge and wanted credit for it?
That's the point. Who makes money off these patents? The individual, or the inventor? I have assisted with a patent search for a sugar substitute for an individual. It was 2000 times sweet compared to sugar gram per gram. Patent granted. Sold to a big corporation that could bring it into market? No way.
However, that patent it did good on her resume and got a job at a big drug company. Guess who has the patent now and no, that invention never made it to market. Granted, it would have cost much in FDA approval, but it is NOT in public domain.
>So, we should just be gratefull that Microsoft isn't charging us.
And the non Jewish residents of Germany should have been grateful that they were not Jews.
How long has that Leave MS Alone petition been up? A day? 11 votes? Wait until normal business hours when the suits arrive at Redmond. There will be some activity... The brains of the monster is sleeping. Be very, very quiet...
>My impression of the average Linux user after reading/. posts for 6 months: Arrogant, clannish, >immature, geek elitist assholes. >By the time you kids grow up and relax a little bit your OS will probably be obsolete and you'll >have to find something else to argue about.
My impression of the average Microsoft employee after reading MS FUD for the last 6 years: Arrogant, clannish, immature, monopolist elitist assholes. By the time you kids grow up and relax a little bit you will realize your OS will be worthless and you'll have to find something to actually innovate.
>So I wonder where the Americans process their uranium?
They need energy. Lots of it. Centrifuges also require great underground space, such as used coal mines.
Look for any mostly undergroud government contractor that hase nice power lines running to it. The type of power lines to look for can run through the city on large metal poles, three phase heavy conductors, with very long insulators. The wires will hold close to the maximum voltage that can be held without escaping into weather conditions.
Imagine a small complex with a massive security retaining wall using billions of watts. Where does all that energy go? Its used underground. Such a small building would melt if it could use the capacity of that electrical line.
I know of one such building that uses an inordinate amount of electricity and does not seem to manufacture anything. "We are not involved in weapons production." Any casual observer should wonder what is going on.
Have they been trying lately to advertise products in a negative light for a desired effect? They did this to the Celeron and if I remember right, even Andy Grove declared he hated the thing? The result was that geeks everywhere raved about the thing. (I have a cheap Celeron 300A and let me tell you how it screams...)
Could introducing the PIII with some obvious flaws just be a way to get people to check it out and start talking? That seems better than a popular practice by marketing the hell out of hype and spamming press releases with misleading claims about what, say, NT can do. At least they do not mislead the way of NT advertising and give the impression one box will put up your web page (that will ultimately require $1000000 in cals, an army of machines, and a staff of push button operators for sub-unix performance.)
The PIII looks like a good chip if no back doors or ID's are enabled by default. I think Intel is being honest to an extreme in promoting this.
Was it VMS that was touted as the "most user friendly" operating system? Everytime I cd'd to a directory as I typed "set default [somedirectory]" along with other strange formatting, I'd remember that user friendly quote from someone. I do know people who lived and breathed that operating system like I had been missing something. To this day, I still do not know what they were talking about. Except for those VMS boxen never crashed. And NT is supposed to be a reincarnation of VMS from its main developer from what I understand?
I have a Gateway Solo 2200 that has a CT65554 video chip that works well, except it only has 2MB of memory and a max dot rate of 100MHz. So, I played around with various cards in the docking station. The only disadvantage is that X for me seems to only recognize the video card that was used when booted up.
If the laptop was plugged into the docking station at bootup, it would get the card on that pci bridge. I did not read much into complex setups like this, but I'm sure X could be made to switch between the two cards.
Otherwise, the docking station acts like a real handy hot swapable pci and isa bus. The only problems is initializing scsi and video cards anytime after bootup when the docking station is turned back on. The video and scsi cards when powered back up seem to be uninitialized. Scsi drivers seem to be very unforgiving when the card does not want to talk. I have tried the AHA2940 and initio 9100uw, both with the same results.
Oh, and another problem I have with the docking station is that playing sounds through the laptop's sound card can crash Linux while it is hot docking. As long as I stop the mp3 player while I dock and undock, it will not crash.
Linux likes my docking station. It sees it as more pci bridges that are welcome on the system at anytime. This station was very unusable with Windows95 and NT. I am no fan of rebooting.
I may have to make an ugly and clumsy patch to the kernel to allow cards like the video and scsi to get restarted. The APM seems to do this automagicaly with PCMCIA cards. Has anyone tried this with a docking station?
We'll make you an offer you can't refuse. We'll offer you protection from your competitors for a small cut and do what ever it takes to make sure you bring us profits. Sounds like they want a close family to me. Patents can be legal extortion. The pen is mightier than the sword.
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>Supposedly the mob is going to make things
>difficult for us out there,
Which specific mob? Is it the nasty business climate in that city or that dominating software empire? Will they be sending out scouts to this one too? This guy told us at the ALS there were just two of them (he said he was just a consultant, yeah, yeah.)
I liked his reasoning about Y2K. He might be right. Who would want to be around a bunch of drunks on a thin skinned vessel traveling around 600 mph? Would you know for sure no one has slipped a few drinks in the cockpit? Hehehehe...
Was it just me or did those interview questions have a very long word count? They reminded me of exam questions that needed to be read carefully to digest the full content. More than one question in a question too. Despite that, he gave a great interview!
>Anybody else tired of abusing MS engineers?
Please do not use MS and engineering in the same sentence. Unless you are describing business tactics.
They don't innovate. They assimilate!
A workplace is a good workplace when computers do not crash and people can work. Linux will help them do it!
Hopefully, MS won't send the goons out and make things difficult.
The most interesting disagreements happen at large companies. Even though things have been great at work the last few years, we had a class on workplace violence this morning. Great stories of people trapped in dead end jobs and going postal or terrorizing colleagues.
:)
The world of free software does not compare. Colorful language is even rare and is hard to find on C.O.L.A. too. If I disagree, I feel very free to patch, cobble together, and distribute. So there!
These are good times anyway. Very good times!
It seems that many laws are pushed to regulate and control everything about software and communication, because it is power. It prevents the people who do the innovating from having any control or rights. If I write a program that takes advantage of crypto for security, I would be entering a nasty and perhaps expensive legal domain. No fun.
The lobbying groups of big software companies and consultants seem to make existing monopolies much more powerful. Thought laws (Intelectual Property laws) establish and protect monopolies. Ban them and you will once again have high quality and increased production in other areas. I see so much scrap at work because NT burps a lot.
So where would a person with great talents such as this work?
Microsoft!
and I love it! LSL shipped it priority mail and it did not take me long to get it going.
The distribution has the packages that match my personality. It was a nice surprise to have a great selection of scientific applications that are conviently installed. Other things caught my eye too, like the OJ screen saver.
For me, this is the ultimate distribution. I hope they enjoy the little donation from me in return.
I was unable to attend this event and would really like to see some narrated pictures. Please? :)
Microwave ovens put out around 1 to 2 kilowatts. Size a narrow beam antenna on the waveguide and you can direct the beam and heat a cup of coffee across the street, start a fire, or . . . Not to mention magnetrons in commercial products have a lower vacuum and are electricaly noisy. Communication links will go down...
Now power one of these in a suitcase with high energy density lithium batteries and you have the weapon he's talking about.
I'm sending my licence back to Microsoft in one of those $3 priority mail envelopes to:
Microsoft Corp
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
Asking my money back because it crashed too much that I installed Linux. Yep, I used it and it was a PTA. I may not be legally bound for a refund, but I'm asking for another reason: I tried it and found it was a lemon.
They may want us to think there is brutal competition while the courts are still in session so they would have some kind of justification for eliminating 95% of the competition. If I pulled the crimes they are accused of commiting on such a scale, I would be doing some time.
Its not cool to screw your customers. You don't make $50 billion by accident with poor quality. But, they most likely will, since they have rewritten history, bought up news and broadcasting firms, travel, etc... Its the dark side, its your destiny. Its a dark shade of blue and time for a reboot.
And this has happened with Linux. Some nut unwisely decided to just register the trademark of Linux and harass distros. The blind distribution by the patent office costs everyone. Its good business if you are a lawyer. Its not good business if you have to cave in to the extortion from all sides and have to pay "protection" for something you thought was common sense.
>Well america never stop astonishing me. Patent everything. Even human life! This is America. And America is also:
Welcome to America. World Domination. In this great country of America, we were all taught in our history books at a young age that our ascestors came over here on ships from England. It was easy to get a pass if you were a criminal or undesired. So a lot arrived on this contenent and had problems getting along with the Native Americans (indians.) Furthermore, some enterprising imigrants passed by Africa and kidnaped people of identifiable color for lifetime slavery. Let me tell you, talking about all this stuff is pretty much taboo here. But you get the idea. Some things never change. But they should.
Bill Gates is one of the last fucking assholes alive.
The Assembly-HOWTO is a rich source of leads for the particular processor implimentation you wish. Remember, that with each GNU assembler package, you will find a wealth of documentation in the tarball and the author's web page. Plus there is the ever handy google web page and dejanews powersearch (the regular search seems to be too dumbed down lately.)
:)
BTW: I have a wealth of Z80 proggies and many with a GUI system (with mouse!) built in. I can post them on my web page if there is interest. I don't know if anyone still designs with the old reliable, but cumbersome Z80. All that and the largest program was 2000 lines!
Videogate, patentgate, evasivegate, lyingassgate...
Mr. Anonymous, for whatever reason wrote:
>Yeah, but what if you invented that twisted door
>hinge and wanted credit for it?
That's the point. Who makes money off these patents? The individual, or the inventor? I have assisted with a patent search for a sugar substitute for an individual. It was 2000 times sweet compared to sugar gram per gram. Patent granted. Sold to a big corporation that could bring it into market? No way.
However, that patent it did good on her resume and got a job at a big drug company. Guess who has the patent now and no, that invention never made it to market. Granted, it would have cost much in FDA approval, but it is NOT in public domain.
>So, we should just be gratefull that Microsoft isn't charging us.
And the non Jewish residents of Germany should have been grateful that they were not Jews.
How long has that Leave MS Alone petition been up? A day? 11 votes? Wait until normal business hours when the suits arrive at Redmond. There will be some activity... The brains of the monster is sleeping. Be very, very quiet...
>My impression of the average Linux user after reading /. posts for 6 months: Arrogant, clannish,
>immature, geek elitist assholes.
>By the time you kids grow up and relax a little bit your OS will probably be obsolete and you'll
>have to find something else to argue about.
My impression of the average Microsoft employee after reading MS FUD for the last 6 years: Arrogant, clannish, immature, monopolist elitist assholes.
By the time you kids grow up and relax a little bit you will realize your OS will be worthless and you'll have to find something to actually innovate.
>So I wonder where the Americans process their uranium?
They need energy. Lots of it. Centrifuges also require great underground space, such as used coal mines.
Look for any mostly undergroud government contractor that hase nice power lines running to it. The type of power lines to look for can run through the city on large metal poles, three phase heavy conductors, with very long insulators. The wires will hold close to the maximum voltage that can be held without escaping into weather conditions.
Imagine a small complex with a massive security retaining wall using billions of watts. Where does all that energy go? Its used underground. Such a small building would melt if it could use the capacity of that electrical line.
I know of one such building that uses an inordinate amount of electricity and does not seem to manufacture anything. "We are not involved in weapons production." Any casual observer should wonder what is going on.
Have they been trying lately to advertise products in a negative light for a desired effect? They did this to the Celeron and if I remember right, even Andy Grove declared he hated the thing? The result was that geeks everywhere raved about the thing. (I have a cheap Celeron 300A and let me tell you how it screams...)
Could introducing the PIII with some obvious flaws just be a way to get people to check it out and start talking? That seems better than a popular practice by marketing the hell out of hype and spamming press releases with misleading claims about what, say, NT can do. At least they do not mislead the way of NT advertising and give the impression one box will put up your web page (that will ultimately require $1000000 in cals, an army of machines, and a staff of push button operators for sub-unix performance.)
The PIII looks like a good chip if no back doors or ID's are enabled by default. I think Intel is being honest to an extreme in promoting this.
Was it VMS that was touted as the "most user friendly" operating system? Everytime I cd'd to a directory as I typed "set default [somedirectory]" along with other strange formatting, I'd remember that user friendly quote from someone. I do know people who lived and breathed that operating system like I had been missing something. To this day, I still do not know what they were talking about. Except for those VMS boxen never crashed. And NT is supposed to be a reincarnation of VMS from its main developer from what I understand?
The proper way to refer your machine is a box .
If you have more than one, you refer to them as boxen .
Examples are: I telneted into my Linux box from home. I drove to work and rebooted all my NT boxen .
I have a Gateway Solo 2200 that has a CT65554 video chip that works well, except it only has 2MB of memory and a max dot rate of 100MHz. So, I played around with various cards in the docking station. The only disadvantage is that X for me seems to only recognize the video card that was used when booted up.
If the laptop was plugged into the docking station at bootup, it would get the card on that pci bridge. I did not read much into complex setups like this, but I'm sure X could be made to switch between the two cards.
Otherwise, the docking station acts like a real handy hot swapable pci and isa bus. The only problems is initializing scsi and video cards anytime after bootup when the docking station is turned back on. The video and scsi cards when powered back up seem to be uninitialized. Scsi drivers seem to be very unforgiving when the card does not want to talk. I have tried the AHA2940 and initio 9100uw, both with the same results.
Oh, and another problem I have with the docking station is that playing sounds through the laptop's sound card can crash Linux while it is hot docking. As long as I stop the mp3 player while I dock and undock, it will not crash.
Linux likes my docking station. It sees it as more pci bridges that are welcome on the system at anytime. This station was very unusable with Windows95 and NT. I am no fan of rebooting.
I may have to make an ugly and clumsy patch to the kernel to allow cards like the video and scsi to get restarted. The APM seems to do this automagicaly with PCMCIA cards. Has anyone tried this with a docking station?
We'll make you an offer you can't refuse. We'll offer you protection from your competitors for a small cut and do what ever it takes to make sure you bring us profits. Sounds like they want a close family to me. Patents can be legal extortion. The pen is mightier than the sword.