I think you're on crack.:-)
Seriously, it's a pretty proprietary interface for the Sun...
I mean, if you don't want it, I'll take it off your hands. E-mail me if you want to get rid of it;)
--DM
But seriously, if we're even THINKING about banning links based on copyright violations, then there goes the entire concept of the WWW.
Can I sue for someone pointing at me? It's the same difference.
You know, as many things as Apple's done wrong, they've done one thing right.
There's NOTHING else in this industry that gets anywhere near as exciting as Apple's releases at MacExpo.
Everyone is so interested in previewing products so far in advance, there's nothing left to "oooh" and "aaah" over when it's released. This used to be the case years ago -- someone would release something so new, so radical, so different that everyone would gawk(1) at it and feel something "special".
Apple's brought back that something "special". Now there's something to look forward to, instead of "hey, look at what's on our drawing board for 3 years from now!"
It's great to see new shipping products. Most everything these days is old hat before it's new.
Use WebCT. It integrates beautifully! Online quizzes, testing, chat, and webforums... (www.webct.com)
If all you want is private/public newsgroups, though, use Lyris (www.lyris.com). It's a mailing list manager that can work via email, a WWW interface or an NNTP interface. Pretty slick. One word of caution though: HEED THEIR MEMORY REQUIREMENTS RELIGIOUSLY. When they say it requires 256M RAM on the server, they MEAN it!
Well, I must admit that these replies confirm what I suspected. Slashdot is full of 14 year-old, think-i-know-everything, i'm-cool-because-i-usE-fUnnY-lEttErS, imbesiles who have nothing better to do with their time than run around screaming LINUX RULES!!!!!!!!!! It's great to support something, but don't be a moron about it. Things haven't changed much since the BBS days, have they? We used to have the same thing in Fidonet (remember Fidonet? Oh wait, most of you don't even remember when throughput wasn't TCP/IP based). Enough ranting about how much the userbase here sucks, and how the anonymous nature of the WWW sucks. Just to keep things on topic, I really, truly recommend a traditional path for programming. First, BASIC. BASIC is exactly that, basic. Just get used to loops, controls, etc. Next, comes Pascal. Pascal is probably one of the absolute best languages ever developed. It's strongly typed, very VERY strict, and still extremely functional. It's also verbose, so you can actually UNDERSTAND what's going on. Forget all this C++ crap. Forget Perl. And definitely forget Java. Forget Scheme, TCL, PHP, or any other scripting language. Save that for later. BASIC and Pascal are great building blocks. They're great, but ONLY IF your kids want to learn. If they're not interested in learning, don't force it on them. It'll only create animosity. Best of luck with your kids -- and if you want to give them a fun project, find some old Turbo Pascal tutor books. In fact, if you're serious, e-mail me. I probably still have some lying around...
Thank you. This is almost exactly what _I_ was going to write, but you seemed to cover all of it. Wow.... PK goes back a ways, and I really don't remember him being so much hailed as a hero than as a thief.
Way back in the olden days ('94ish), we used to have a satellite system setup to receive our Fidonet mail (remember Fidonet?)
We had one guy who had a dish on his roof receive the entire feed (wow!) and then distribute it to the rest of us using regular landlines. Pennsylvania Online (www.paonline.com) used to send him the feed for ~$30/month via satellite. Our whole net group chipped in about $10/each per year and that bought us access to all the feeds we could possibly want.
I remember how AMAZING our local net was (1:2630) because we could get the Fido echoes quicker than anyone else in the area.
I live right across the river from NYC (Literally! It's amazing that a scene I see EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE -- the NYC skyline -- attracts people from all over the world. And I take it for granted. But I digress...) and I'll tell you -- it's an almost ideal place to live and work. The beauty of the whole thing is that you get the benefits of NYC - such as the HUGE job market, the nightlife, the culture (like someone else said, it _IS_ the capitol of the world!), etc, but without the bad parts. When I get home at night, there's very little crime, my car stays where I park it, and it's nice and quiet. Maybe the city doesn't sleep, but I like to occasionally!
Plus, of course, there's the infamous Jersey diners... mmm..... diners...
Now I understand the problem with Linux. It's the open-source community. Yes, we all work hard at what we do, and yes, Linux has grown into a beautiful thing. But we look like a bunch of crackpots, posting stories like this. We look like a paranoid group of folks who can't tolerate criticism or people who aren't where we are on the learning curve. Red Hat's trying to make money. Corel is trying to make money. Microsoft even is trying to make money. That's natural and normal. Nothing's wrong yet. Instead of boycotting Red Hat and comparing them to Satan, we should embrace them and put our resources where their money is. The path to success is not through infighting and complaining. It's through supporting those who support us. Red Hat has done lots for the Linux community -- but there's a constant "fear" that they're going to do something "bad" and "big brother-like". Let go. Let's support Red Hat's efforts, and wish them the best. I use Red Hat on my desktop. Do you know why? Because it's nice. I prefer its installer above all the rest. I prefer RPM above the rest. I also like the fact that if a vendor is going to support ONE distribution, it's going to be Red Hat's. It's also the most marketable in the corporate environment. It's much easier for me to convince my boss to let us install Red Hat on a server than Debian. Corel's trying a Grand Experiment. They're trying to take a stable, robust operating system, make a nice front end to it, and sell it to users who need, basically, an email terminal and Netscape. Maybe a few games, too. What's wrong? I don't see a problem here. Instead of over-reacting to their license agreement, we need to just back off and let them explain themselves. I've seen it numerous times on Slashdot already. A huge over-reaction to what amounts, really, to nothing. Ease up. This is only a computer operating system, not a life-and-death situation. I use Linux exclusively at work. It's fantastic. At home, I dual-boot Linux and Windows 98. Since I can't play Half-Life in Linux, I need Windows. My laptop is a Mac PowerBook. It's got a great UI, and runs fast. There's something for everyone -- this shouldn't be a holy war. We just need to keep working to make Linux the best thing for __US__. This whole idea of world domination shouldn't be. If we try to be all things to all people, we're going to fail. Let's step back, take a good look at what we've created, and continue to mold it to our liking. We don't need to be on everyone's desktop to be successful!
Solaris _DOES_ support >8 character usernames. Only the first 8 characters are significant, however. There is space in the kernel to support up to 32 character unames, IIRC.
Some utilities, however, do _not_ support it well. The finger command, for example. Also, a ps listing will only show the first 8 characters of the username.
Essentially, it's OK To use longer names -- however, only the first 8 mean anything.
DR-DOS was, and IS, kick-butt! Caldera has brought this great product back to life... I use it here at our Little League to run a 2-node Personal NetWare LAN on some old 486's. It runs _GREAT_!! I have a DOS-based FoxPro database package we use to manage our league, and it works like a charm on Caldera DR-DOS.
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I think you're on crack. :-)
Seriously, it's a pretty proprietary interface for the Sun...
I mean, if you don't want it, I'll take it off your hands. E-mail me if you want to get rid of it ;)
--DM
That's not true!
It's a single card solution, with a "filler panel" containing an extra serial and parallel port.
It has an AMD K6-400 CPU on it with 64MB of RAM by default (extra DIMM slots onboard).
It costs $495 direct from Sun. That's not very expensive at all! Considering you'll no longer need a Pee-Cee...
Click here for the Sun Store link
The UltraSPARC is dead! Long live the UltraSPARC III!
But seriously, if we're even THINKING about banning links based on copyright violations, then there goes the entire concept of the WWW. Can I sue for someone pointing at me? It's the same difference.
You know, as many things as Apple's done wrong, they've done one thing right.
There's NOTHING else in this industry that gets anywhere near as exciting as Apple's releases at MacExpo.
Everyone is so interested in previewing products so far in advance, there's nothing left to "oooh" and "aaah" over when it's released. This used to be the case years ago -- someone would release something so new, so radical, so different that everyone would gawk(1) at it and feel something "special".
Apple's brought back that something "special". Now there's something to look forward to, instead of "hey, look at what's on our drawing board for 3 years from now!"
It's great to see new shipping products. Most everything these days is old hat before it's new.
Use WebCT. It integrates beautifully!
Online quizzes, testing, chat, and webforums...
(www.webct.com)
If all you want is private/public newsgroups, though, use Lyris (www.lyris.com). It's a mailing list manager that can work via email, a WWW interface or an NNTP interface. Pretty slick. One word of caution though: HEED THEIR MEMORY REQUIREMENTS RELIGIOUSLY. When they say it requires 256M RAM on the server, they MEAN it!
Well, I must admit that these replies confirm what I suspected. Slashdot is full of 14 year-old, think-i-know-everything, i'm-cool-because-i-usE-fUnnY-lEttErS, imbesiles who have nothing better to do with their time than run around screaming LINUX RULES!!!!!!!!!! It's great to support something, but don't be a moron about it. Things haven't changed much since the BBS days, have they? We used to have the same thing in Fidonet (remember Fidonet? Oh wait, most of you don't even remember when throughput wasn't TCP/IP based). Enough ranting about how much the userbase here sucks, and how the anonymous nature of the WWW sucks. Just to keep things on topic, I really, truly recommend a traditional path for programming. First, BASIC. BASIC is exactly that, basic. Just get used to loops, controls, etc. Next, comes Pascal. Pascal is probably one of the absolute best languages ever developed. It's strongly typed, very VERY strict, and still extremely functional. It's also verbose, so you can actually UNDERSTAND what's going on. Forget all this C++ crap. Forget Perl. And definitely forget Java. Forget Scheme, TCL, PHP, or any other scripting language. Save that for later. BASIC and Pascal are great building blocks. They're great, but ONLY IF your kids want to learn. If they're not interested in learning, don't force it on them. It'll only create animosity. Best of luck with your kids -- and if you want to give them a fun project, find some old Turbo Pascal tutor books. In fact, if you're serious, e-mail me. I probably still have some lying around...
Thank you. This is almost exactly what _I_ was going to write, but you seemed to cover all of it. Wow.... PK goes back a ways, and I really don't remember him being so much hailed as a hero than as a thief.
Way back in the olden days ('94ish), we used to
:) I still remember...
have a satellite system setup to receive
our Fidonet mail (remember Fidonet?)
We had one guy who had a dish on his roof receive the entire feed (wow!) and then distribute it to the rest of us using regular landlines. Pennsylvania Online (www.paonline.com) used to send him the feed for ~$30/month via satellite. Our whole net group chipped in about $10/each per year and that bought us access to all the feeds we could possibly want.
I remember how AMAZING our local net was (1:2630) because we could get the Fido echoes quicker than anyone else in the area.
Thanks, Jeff.
Yeah, but you also have the Red Sox!
Strikes 1, 2, and 3 against Boston.
Long live the Bambino Curse!
I live right across the river from NYC (Literally! It's amazing that a scene I see EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE -- the NYC skyline -- attracts people from all over the world. And I take it for granted. But I digress...) and I'll tell you -- it's an almost
ideal place to live and work. The beauty of the
whole thing is that you get the benefits of NYC -
such as the HUGE job market, the nightlife, the
culture (like someone else said, it _IS_ the capitol of the world!), etc, but without the bad parts. When I get home at night, there's very little crime, my car stays where I park it, and it's nice and quiet. Maybe the city doesn't sleep, but I like to occasionally!
Plus, of course, there's the infamous Jersey diners... mmm..... diners...
Now I understand the problem with Linux. It's the open-source community. Yes, we all work hard at what we do, and yes, Linux has grown into a beautiful thing. But we look like a bunch of crackpots, posting stories like this. We look like a paranoid group of folks who can't tolerate criticism or people who aren't where we are on the learning curve. Red Hat's trying to make money. Corel is trying to make money. Microsoft even is trying to make money. That's natural and normal. Nothing's wrong yet. Instead of boycotting Red Hat and comparing them to Satan, we should embrace them and put our resources where their money is. The path to success is not through infighting and complaining. It's through supporting those who support us. Red Hat has done lots for the Linux community -- but there's a constant "fear" that they're going to do something "bad" and "big brother-like". Let go. Let's support Red Hat's efforts, and wish them the best. I use Red Hat on my desktop. Do you know why? Because it's nice. I prefer its installer above all the rest. I prefer RPM above the rest. I also like the fact that if a vendor is going to support ONE distribution, it's going to be Red Hat's. It's also the most marketable in the corporate environment. It's much easier for me to convince my boss to let us install Red Hat on a server than Debian. Corel's trying a Grand Experiment. They're trying to take a stable, robust operating system, make a nice front end to it, and sell it to users who need, basically, an email terminal and Netscape. Maybe a few games, too. What's wrong? I don't see a problem here. Instead of over-reacting to their license agreement, we need to just back off and let them explain themselves. I've seen it numerous times on Slashdot already. A huge over-reaction to what amounts, really, to nothing. Ease up. This is only a computer operating system, not a life-and-death situation. I use Linux exclusively at work. It's fantastic. At home, I dual-boot Linux and Windows 98. Since I can't play Half-Life in Linux, I need Windows. My laptop is a Mac PowerBook. It's got a great UI, and runs fast. There's something for everyone -- this shouldn't be a holy war. We just need to keep working to make Linux the best thing for __US__. This whole idea of world domination shouldn't be. If we try to be all things to all people, we're going to fail. Let's step back, take a good look at what we've created, and continue to mold it to our liking. We don't need to be on everyone's desktop to be successful!
Solaris _DOES_ support >8 character usernames. Only the first 8 characters are significant, however. There is space in the kernel to support up to 32 character unames, IIRC.
Some utilities, however, do _not_ support it well. The finger command, for example. Also, a ps
listing will only show the first 8 characters of
the username.
Essentially, it's OK To use longer names -- however, only the first 8 mean anything.
Yeah, and I used such a feature in Professional
w rite-the-darned-document... :-)
Write 2 in 1988.
Back then, it was called move-the-cursor-wherever-the-hell-you-wanted-and-
The correct pronunciation of AIX (IMO) is
"aches"...
hehehhe... I once edited Windows 3.1's PROGMAN.EXE to read Program Mangler everywhere!
It was pretty damn funny, actually.... long live Norton DiskEdit!
DR-DOS was, and IS, kick-butt! Caldera has brought this great product back to life...
I use it here at our Little League to run a 2-node Personal NetWare LAN on some old 486's. It runs _GREAT_!! I have a DOS-based FoxPro database package we use to manage our league, and it works like a charm on Caldera DR-DOS.
And the security is great, too!