I guess it depends on how much money is considered 'insane'. RedHat offers support, HP sells contracts supporting Linux... I would think the support costs would not exceed a comparable contract supporting Windows systems.
You can not purchase Windows XP Media Center Edition and install it on a custom PC, you have to purchase an MS approved bundle from HP, Dell, or Gateway (perhaps there are more out now).
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Perhaps you should read the paragraph after the one you quoted...
As Coyle details in an editorial on his site (www.resexcellence.com/hack_html_01/04-23-01.shtml), this policy changed in April. Shortly after ResExcellence added its first theme for the Mac OS X, Coyle received a letter from Apple lawyers. Ultimately, Apple was placated by a few modifications ResExcellence made that were unrelated to the Mac OS X theme, but others did not get off so easily. In particular, Apple came down hard on MacThemes, providers of the open-source ThemeMachine editing tool used by many of the theme developers.
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Will Apple ask them to cease and desist?
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Apple's legal team is notorious for sending cease and desist letters any time someone copies the look of the aqua interface.
Apple does a much better job at font smoothing than Microsoft's Cleartype. Even though my main display is the 1280x854 hi-res PowerBook display, even when I mirror it to a CRT it looks a lot better than Cleartype in XP. I do think that Cleartype is (imnsho) superb to the anti-aliasing in xfs however.
What I mean was that gamma radiation looks the same to a GM detector like the AN PDR-27. Standard GM detectors to not seperate readings based on wavelength, just the amount of rads.
`But the advantage of RadNet is that it is a "smart" sensor that can pick up on the difference between radiation emitted by a so-called "dirty bomb," a mix of conventional explosive and nuclear materials, and the radiation from a recent hospital treatment.`
I'm highly skeptical about this point. Gamma radiation all looks the same, except for varying intensities, regardless of the source... and background neutron radiation almost never exists (unless you're hanging out near nuclear weapons or a running fission reacor.) I don't think the device could really discern between a dirty bomb and other radiation sources.
...or a LaserJet 1 - 4 that isn't an "L" or "M" model
Wouldn't want that M model... it had extra memory and Adobe PostScript. `M` models are typically the best older printers for Linux printing (PostScript whips up on PCL as a printing language)
1024x768 on a TV out to a 5 inch LCD has got to be hell on the eyes. If you'r running VNC then you may as well manage from a remote workstation, with a display that won't give you a headache.
Quark still doesn't have a Mac OS X version... I'd rather see Adobe InDesign for Linux (not with a crappy Wine port the way Corel ported the CorelDRAW suite.)
Port you apps to Linux Adobe, and I'll be a loyal customer for life:)
That would have made my time underway much more pleasant. The best connection we could get was 9600 baud floating a wire antenna. Many years ago though... not sure what they're doing now..:diatonic:.
I would think HP would handle it. They do sponsor his speaking activities on open source. I would also think HP's legal team would handle any defense that he needed if charged.
I thought it was a little odd that there is no mention of the status of Linux/Microsoft in the US. I would be interested to see what is being done with Linux at a federal level here in the US.
I know that in the last 10 years or so in my area, concert tickets have gone from ~$25 per ticket to $50(Last time Niel Young came to town... same price for Roger Waters).
Seems steep to me... maybe they just know that fans will pay it.
The OSS community typically acts a lot more quickly than Microsoft has on security problems... when security flaws are found on Windows the patches usually take longer to release.
Also... security flaws under *NIX systems usually are limited to one service... not the Internet Explorer/Outlook Express/MS Messenger Core OS holes that seem to plague MS since everything is so entwined.
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I guess it depends on how much money is considered 'insane'. RedHat offers support, HP sells contracts supporting Linux... I would think the support costs would not exceed a comparable contract supporting Windows systems.
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You can not purchase Windows XP Media Center Edition and install it on a custom PC, you have to purchase an MS approved bundle from HP, Dell, or Gateway (perhaps there are more out now).
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Remember this Gartner recommendation?
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Perhaps you should read the paragraph after the one you quoted...
l ), this policy changed in April. Shortly after ResExcellence added its first theme for the Mac OS X, Coyle received a letter from Apple lawyers. Ultimately, Apple was placated by a few modifications ResExcellence made that were unrelated to the Mac OS X theme, but others did not get off so easily. In particular, Apple came down hard on MacThemes, providers of the open-source ThemeMachine editing tool used by many of the theme developers.
As Coyle details in an editorial on his site (www.resexcellence.com/hack_html_01/04-23-01.shtm
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Apple's legal team is notorious for sending cease and desist letters any time someone copies the look of the aqua interface.
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You can read them here.
The review appears to be slashdotted.
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US Intelligence reports have confirmed that Saddam Hussein and his sons may be hiding in an undergound bunker in the Lunar Poles.
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Apple does a much better job at font smoothing than Microsoft's Cleartype. Even though my main display is the 1280x854 hi-res PowerBook display, even when I mirror it to a CRT it looks a lot better than Cleartype in XP. I do think that Cleartype is (imnsho) superb to the anti-aliasing in xfs however.
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What I mean was that gamma radiation looks the same to a GM detector like the AN PDR-27. Standard GM detectors to not seperate readings based on wavelength, just the amount of rads.
`But the advantage of RadNet is that it is a "smart" sensor that can pick up on the difference between radiation emitted by a so-called "dirty bomb," a mix of conventional explosive and nuclear materials, and the radiation from a recent hospital treatment.`
I'm highly skeptical about this point. Gamma radiation all looks the same, except for varying intensities, regardless of the source... and background neutron radiation almost never exists (unless you're hanging out near nuclear weapons or a running fission reacor.) I don't think the device could really discern between a dirty bomb and other radiation sources.
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...or a LaserJet 1 - 4 that isn't an "L" or "M" model
Wouldn't want that M model... it had extra memory and Adobe PostScript. `M` models are typically the best older printers for Linux printing (PostScript whips up on PCL as a printing language)
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I'm guessing probably 5... maybe up to 7.
1024x768 on a TV out to a 5 inch LCD has got to be hell on the eyes. If you'r running VNC then you may as well manage from a remote workstation, with a display that won't give you a headache.
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Now we can't use a Google cache to view the slashdotted page. Doubt this is what they had in mind when they did that.
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Quark still doesn't have a Mac OS X version... I'd rather see Adobe InDesign for Linux (not with a crappy Wine port the way Corel ported the CorelDRAW suite.)
:)
Port you apps to Linux Adobe, and I'll be a loyal customer for life
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Hmm... Netcraft disagrees...
The site www.hp.com is running Apache on HP-UX.
When you bypass load balancing in a URL, that's the kind of thing that happens. I'm surprised they didn't link to a more friendly URL.
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Interesing project at SourceForge... DVbackup. Might be worth checking out... especially if you already have a DV Camera.
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perhaps Saddam could aquire the technology to keep his servers from succumbing to the slashdot effect.
That would have made my time underway much more pleasant. The best connection we could get was 9600 baud floating a wire antenna. Many years ago though... not sure what they're doing now. .:diatonic:.
Does anyone know if it is relatively easy to put a larger drive into this thing? 20GB is cool, but 60GB would rock!
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I would think HP would handle it. They do sponsor his speaking activities on open source. I would also think HP's legal team would handle any defense that he needed if charged.
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just my assumptions though.
I thought it was a little odd that there is no mention of the status of Linux/Microsoft in the US. I would be interested to see what is being done with Linux at a federal level here in the US.
.:diatonic:.
I know that in the last 10 years or so in my area, concert tickets have gone from ~$25 per ticket to $50 (Last time Niel Young came to town... same price for Roger Waters).
Seems steep to me... maybe they just know that fans will pay it.
The OSS community typically acts a lot more quickly than Microsoft has on security problems... when security flaws are found on Windows the patches usually take longer to release.
Also... security flaws under *NIX systems usually are limited to one service... not the Internet Explorer/Outlook Express/MS Messenger Core OS holes that seem to plague MS since everything is so entwined.