I'm glad to see Boeing fail. My first job out of college was for a company called InflightOnline that was doing the same thing. A month after I started, Boeing announced Connexion. One more month, and we were out of business. I'm still paying off the debt I had to rack up while unemployed. Yes I'm bitter.
That's odd...my roommate and I installed win3.11 just a couple months ago on his grayscale 286 notebook. Nothing special required. Just pop in disk 1 of 6 and go. The only problem was that disk 6 was nearly corrupt! Better make a backup I suppose.
I used Pico for about 4 years after I started using Unix. Loved it, and wouldn't change. Even when Caldera wouldn't install it by default, it was the first thing I installed. But when I got out of college and went to work as a Linux SysAdmin, I decided to take some time to learn vim, since it was always there when pico wasn't. I literally spent 3 days doing nothing but going through the vim tutorials and such, and my life hasn't been the same since! Auto-indent! Syntax Highlighting! Search and replace! (the one thing I always wanted in pico) Once you take time to really learn vim, you'll never go back.
Caldera made me fall in love with Linux. Before trying out Caldera, I had been playing around with Debian and SUSE for a few months, and not getting much accomplished. Hardware support was terrible. Finally, I tried out Caldera...imagine my surprise to see that beautiful graphical login! and Tetris while it installs! This was the first graphical install I had seen (as far as I know, the first widely distributed one too), and it detected everything right off the back. My new DSL line was humming. All the networks services practically configured themselves. Granted it wasn't flawless...there was no swap space, as has been mentioned before...took a while to figure out Samba. But that Caldera 2.3 install I made over two years ago is still running my server. I've been using Mandrake on the desktop as of late, and I think it's definitely outpowered Caldera. And I'm moving both my workstation and server to a homebrew distro (linuxfromscratch). But Caldera 2.3 will always have a special place in my heart.
We both understood this to mean I would not work anymore until I was paid what I was owed. I received a personal check the next day. My point is, I can't feel *too much* sympathy for employees who let their company get too far in arrears.
The majority of these cases aren't employees who aren't getting paid at a company the work for; they're not getting paid because the company went out of business. In other words, you can't use that leverage of "I'm not going to work anymore until I get paid", because you're not going to be working anyway!
These employees don't own this equipment, period. This is the only conceivable arguement. You have to remember that these geeks are getting paid for their 80 hour weeks. They are not entitled to the equipment that their employers paid for.
No, that's the whole point: these employees didn't get paid for their 80 hour week. I myself was in this situation recently. I wasn't putting in 80 hour weeks, but I did work for a week and a half, then they called us in one morning and told us to go home. "Oh, and by the way, we won't be paying you for the last 9 days you worked." No one swiped anything, but we all wanted to. Most of the other people had families to support; I didn't, but I had just graduated from college 2 months before, and hadn't had time to save any money to live on for the next month and a half before I found a new job. If I'd had a little more guts that day, I'd have a nice little Mitsubishi 19" Diamondtron monitor that I'd been sitting in front of for the last few weeks.
Maxtor has been doing this for a while. I bought a DiamondMax 60 about a year ago, and I've never heard a peep out of it. I tried to find some info on their site to link, but couldn't. I think they call it SilentStore, and it's been on most of their drives for awhile now. It is a bit disturbing for awhile, thinking that your computer isn't doing anything, till you look down at the blinking light! I'm not sure what the dB rating is on the Maxtor's, but if you've got a power supply and/or cpu fan, you'll be hard pressed to hear it.
Yes, Bobby was Iceman, albeit a bit younger than in the comics. I think the Prof did say Katie, but remember her real name is Kathryn Pride, so it fits.
I've used SuSE 6.0 and Debian 2.1 sporadically for a few months now, learning the basics of Linux (although I'm quite familiar with Unix from working at my school). But the time finally came to go full bore into Linux when my ADSL line was installed, and I needed a masquerading machine.
I tried Debian first, as I have some odd attraction to it. I read every Howto I could find, newsgroups, everything, and all I could get working was my internal network. No DSL, so masq'ing.
So I installed my copy of SuSE. Wonder of wonders, DSL worked right of the bat. But I had to ifconfig the internal network every time I rebooted. Due to SuSE's unconventional file system, I was unable to run ifconfig (properly) at boot up.
So I'd heard this new Caldera release came out a while ago. Since I had the DSL working on SuSE, I downloaded the image during Hurricane Irene, burned it, and installed.
Wow! was all I could say! It was the most amazing thing I had seen. I had everything working in an hour and a half (really slow CD-ROM drive). The only problem I've encountered so far is the missing pico (which now I know where to find). All the software I could never figure out how to run on Debian and SuSE installs and runs effortlessly, and I feel like I have more power, because I can either easily reconfigure with COAS, or I can be hardcore and edit text files (which for some things is still the only way, like ipchains, as far as I could tell).
As a highly experienced computer user, and moderate user of Linux, I would highly recommend Caldera 2.3 to someone.
Actually, the article says the WWW is 9 years old. I had the same reaction at first, then I quickly double checked myself, and discovered they did say WWW, and not the Internet.
I was just looking at Linux programming books over at Amazon and came across this. I was amazed at the reader reviews, where it received a 5 star average! Only a few 4 stars, tons of 5 stars! Then I head to Slashdot, and right at the top of the page, Beginning Linux Programming is staring at me. Is this an omen?
I had this problem (also with Netscape Communicator). There may be some other libraries it can't find as well. Install xpm from the oldlibs directory from the CD. That should take care of that file. Any other files missing should be dealt with in the same manner.
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I'm glad to see Boeing fail. My first job out of college was for a company called InflightOnline that was doing the same thing. A month after I started, Boeing announced Connexion. One more month, and we were out of business. I'm still paying off the debt I had to rack up while unemployed. Yes I'm bitter.
Sure there is a high level compiler: http://www.ericengler.com/EmbeddedGNU.aspx
We use the HC12 in my graduate level mechatronics class. It's awesome.
The summary should specify that the domains are "company.comsucks.net", not "companysucks.com" as the summary implies.
That's odd...my roommate and I installed win3.11 just a couple months ago on his grayscale 286 notebook. Nothing special required. Just pop in disk 1 of 6 and go. The only problem was that disk 6 was nearly corrupt! Better make a backup I suppose.
I used Pico for about 4 years after I started using Unix. Loved it, and wouldn't change. Even when Caldera wouldn't install it by default, it was the first thing I installed. But when I got out of college and went to work as a Linux SysAdmin, I decided to take some time to learn vim, since it was always there when pico wasn't. I literally spent 3 days doing nothing but going through the vim tutorials and such, and my life hasn't been the same since! Auto-indent! Syntax Highlighting! Search and replace! (the one thing I always wanted in pico) Once you take time to really learn vim, you'll never go back.
Caldera made me fall in love with Linux. Before trying out Caldera, I had been playing around with Debian and SUSE for a few months, and not getting much accomplished. Hardware support was terrible. Finally, I tried out Caldera...imagine my surprise to see that beautiful graphical login! and Tetris while it installs! This was the first graphical install I had seen (as far as I know, the first widely distributed one too), and it detected everything right off the back. My new DSL line was humming. All the networks services practically configured themselves. Granted it wasn't flawless...there was no swap space, as has been mentioned before...took a while to figure out Samba. But that Caldera 2.3 install I made over two years ago is still running my server. I've been using Mandrake on the desktop as of late, and I think it's definitely outpowered Caldera. And I'm moving both my workstation and server to a homebrew distro (linuxfromscratch). But Caldera 2.3 will always have a special place in my heart.
We both understood this to mean I would not work anymore until I was paid what I was owed. I received a personal check the next day. My point is, I can't feel *too much* sympathy for employees who let their company get too far in arrears.
The majority of these cases aren't employees who aren't getting paid at a company the work for; they're not getting paid because the company went out of business. In other words, you can't use that leverage of "I'm not going to work anymore until I get paid", because you're not going to be working anyway!
These employees don't own this equipment, period. This is the only conceivable arguement. You have to remember that these geeks are getting paid for their 80 hour weeks. They are not entitled to the equipment that their employers paid for.
No, that's the whole point: these employees didn't get paid for their 80 hour week. I myself was in this situation recently. I wasn't putting in 80 hour weeks, but I did work for a week and a half, then they called us in one morning and told us to go home. "Oh, and by the way, we won't be paying you for the last 9 days you worked." No one swiped anything, but we all wanted to. Most of the other people had families to support; I didn't, but I had just graduated from college 2 months before, and hadn't had time to save any money to live on for the next month and a half before I found a new job. If I'd had a little more guts that day, I'd have a nice little Mitsubishi 19" Diamondtron monitor that I'd been sitting in front of for the last few weeks.
Maxtor has been doing this for a while. I bought a DiamondMax 60 about a year ago, and I've never heard a peep out of it. I tried to find some info on their site to link, but couldn't. I think they call it SilentStore, and it's been on most of their drives for awhile now. It is a bit disturbing for awhile, thinking that your computer isn't doing anything, till you look down at the blinking light! I'm not sure what the dB rating is on the Maxtor's, but if you've got a power supply and/or cpu fan, you'll be hard pressed to hear it.
Yes, Bobby was Iceman, albeit a bit younger than in the comics. I think the Prof did say Katie, but remember her real name is Kathryn Pride, so it fits.
Shoutcast doesn't make liveice; it's an independent, open source project.
I had a similar problem. Try running ldconfig...it fixed a libjpeg and libpng library not found error.
This just wouldn't be the same world with a Stevie Wonder who can see...We can't make the "Have you seen Stevie Wonder's new piano..." joke anymore!
I've used SuSE 6.0 and Debian 2.1 sporadically for a few months now, learning the basics of Linux (although I'm quite familiar with Unix from working at my school). But the time finally came to go full bore into Linux when my ADSL line was installed, and I needed a masquerading machine.
I tried Debian first, as I have some odd attraction to it. I read every Howto I could find, newsgroups, everything, and all I could get working was my internal network. No DSL, so masq'ing.
So I installed my copy of SuSE. Wonder of wonders, DSL worked right of the bat. But I had to ifconfig the internal network every time I rebooted. Due to SuSE's unconventional file system, I was unable to run ifconfig (properly) at boot up.
So I'd heard this new Caldera release came out a while ago. Since I had the DSL working on SuSE, I downloaded the image during Hurricane Irene, burned it, and installed.
Wow! was all I could say! It was the most amazing thing I had seen. I had everything working in an hour and a half (really slow CD-ROM drive). The only problem I've encountered so far is the missing pico (which now I know where to find). All the software I could never figure out how to run on Debian and SuSE installs and runs effortlessly, and I feel like I have more power, because I can either easily reconfigure with COAS, or I can be hardcore and edit text files (which for some things is still the only way, like ipchains, as far as I could tell).
As a highly experienced computer user, and moderate user of Linux, I would highly recommend Caldera 2.3 to someone.
Actually, the article says the WWW is 9 years old. I had the same reaction at first, then I quickly double checked myself, and discovered they did say WWW, and not the Internet.
How could this be compared to Debian? I really like Debian, but I've heard good things about Caldera.
I was just looking at Linux programming books over at Amazon and came across this. I was amazed at the reader reviews, where it received a 5 star average! Only a few 4 stars, tons of 5 stars! Then I head to Slashdot, and right at the top of the page, Beginning Linux Programming is staring at me. Is this an omen?
Umm, Paul wrote Yesterday, not John.
I had this problem (also with Netscape Communicator). There may be some other libraries it can't find as well. Install xpm from the oldlibs directory from the CD. That should take care of that file. Any other files missing should be dealt with in the same manner.