The article explains a hell of a lot. The reality appears to be as hinted already: the existing TV networks have a considerable swing with the government (shades of Bob Hawke's 'mates') and they are the one lobbying for rules that reduce the risk of other forms of transmission competing with TV. Like the censorship act, this is another case of a spineless government giving in to blackmail.
The Cities in Flight sequence has just been published in the UK by Millennium Masterworks. You can get it at amazon.co.uk.
I read 'Cities in Flight' when I was maybe 15 and the description of a city taking off is still one of the coolest images in SF. I've just finished reading the whole sequence and the last book sort of drifts off on a random tack and trails away to nothing, but the first two and a half books are definitely among the classics of the golden age.
The same imprint has also published 'The Stars My Destination' and 'The Demolished Man' by Alfred Bester, 'Last and First Men' by Olaf Stapledon and 'Player Piano' by Kurt Vonnegut.
Here in Blightly, Roman and Greek gods get flogged to death. At place I used to work, it got a little out of hand - we started with Hermes (mail, and its mirror Mercury), Eros for news (can't think why), the web server was Oracle (of Delphi - should have been Io of course). Then the IRC server was Mars, but then the next machine (the Radius server IIRC) was Pluto. Then the signup server was Mickey...
According the papers I read, the first version of Oracle with a minimal OS (enough for bootstrapping the servers) was called Raw Iron and ran on HP. Solaris was/is due 'soon'.
For all that, Linux would be the perfect platform for that project - create a minimal kernel that just supports I/O and networking, sit it on a boot partition and let Oracle do the rest itself.
You want something not unlike XML I suppose (although I don't think XML objects can be defined directly as, say, data retrieval objects) but for the time being, can be inserted at the required location so that the PHP code can be separated from the HTML code reasonably well.
Sendmail on the outside, Exchange in the middle - it works fine here. MS have got a long long way to go before they replace SMTP as the internet mail protocol. Outlook/Exchange is only useful in a LAN environment. You have people on the road, they have to use SMTP or a web client to communicate - MS understand this, which is why Exchange 5.5 has web mail built in. And don't believe your Exchange bod - SMTP, IMAP and POP3 are there from install time.
And you want a cross platform IMAP server/client? Try UWash's imapd and good ol' Netscape.
How can you tell if someone's generating 'static pages' in PHP or ASP? You can't tell from View Source. PHP is what the web should have had from the very beginning. ASP isn't that bad for that matter, you can always use perlscript for the language if you really have to. Practically any site of any level of usefulness benefits from dynamic content. It's the way the web is going, so it's more than relevant to any benchmark.
You too eh? It's interesting that Teesside is doing it as the place was pretty much cutting edge in the UK back in the mid-80s, when I was there (doing English, but hanging out with the nerds). In the end it's probably just a way of getting government funds into the department but full marks for trying.
Is anything on the Internet worth that much really? Here in the UK there's an investment house rolling out their net portfolio with the line that Yahoo is bigger than British Airways, based on a Yahoo valuation of $60 billion. At least BA can sell its planes...
Yep, it's credited to 'Stephen Bury' and is Stephenson and his father-in-law, who's apparently something of a name in the thriller market. There's also 'Cobweb' under that name, a sort of CIA procedural which is pretty cool.
The Internet will be as much a revolution to Africa as TV was twenty years ago. More so, as TV is by definition controlled by big business and government. The shortage of wire in Africa is largely down to the big problem of getting it in: overcoming the patronage, baksheesh, bribery, call it what you want, that it takes to get things done in much of the continent. By running the line around the coast Africa One can bring it ashore as required and leave the inland operations to local telcos. Africa needs to brought up to speed - maybe this will help to stop the cycle of revolution and war that's holding development back.
'The Cassini Division' by Ken McLeod is set in a future solar system where a virus has rendered all digital computers difficult or dangerous to use, so what computing there is is done by Babbage machines of varying sizes ranging from huge to nano. I'd never thought of it until I read it.
Well, went to check out the UF site this morning and it looks like legal advice has prevailed. Whether it's Bill or Intel taking exception to Sunday's colour strip or even a April 1 joke (but hey, it's past midday here) I dunno, but someone must be pretty annoyed.
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The article explains a hell of a lot. The reality appears to be as hinted already: the existing TV networks have a considerable swing with the government (shades of Bob Hawke's 'mates') and they are the one lobbying for rules that reduce the risk of other forms of transmission competing with TV. Like the censorship act, this is another case of a spineless government giving in to blackmail.
Hmm, that article jumped the gun a tad - I'm quite surprised no-one else noticed it.
The Cities in Flight sequence has just been published in the UK by Millennium Masterworks. You can get it at amazon.co.uk.
I read 'Cities in Flight' when I was maybe 15 and the description of a city taking off is still one of the coolest images in SF. I've just finished reading the whole sequence and the last book sort of drifts off on a random tack and trails away to nothing, but the first two and a half books are definitely among the classics of the golden age.
The same imprint has also published 'The Stars My Destination' and 'The Demolished Man' by Alfred Bester, 'Last and First Men' by Olaf Stapledon and 'Player Piano' by Kurt Vonnegut.
Here in Blightly, Roman and Greek gods get flogged to death. At place I used to work, it got a little out of hand - we started with Hermes (mail, and its mirror Mercury), Eros for news (can't think why), the web server was Oracle (of Delphi - should have been Io of course). Then the IRC server was Mars, but then the next machine (the Radius server IIRC) was Pluto. Then the signup server was Mickey...
Backed by a couple of small startups - what are they called again, oh yeah, Sun and AOL.
According the papers I read, the first version of Oracle with a minimal OS (enough for bootstrapping the servers) was called Raw Iron and ran on HP. Solaris was/is due 'soon'.
For all that, Linux would be the perfect platform for that project - create a minimal kernel that just supports I/O and networking, sit it on a boot partition and let Oracle do the rest itself.
It would be cheaper than implementing Raw Iron on HP, for them and everyone else.
You want something not unlike XML I suppose (although I don't think XML objects can be defined directly as, say, data retrieval objects) but for the time being, can be inserted at the required location so that the PHP code can be separated from the HTML code reasonably well.
Sendmail on the outside, Exchange in the middle - it works fine here. MS have got a long long way to go before they replace SMTP as the internet mail protocol. Outlook/Exchange is only useful in a LAN environment. You have people on the road, they have to use SMTP or a web client to communicate - MS understand this, which is why Exchange 5.5 has web mail built in. And don't believe your Exchange bod - SMTP, IMAP and POP3 are there from install time.
And you want a cross platform IMAP server/client? Try UWash's imapd and good ol' Netscape.
How can you tell if someone's generating 'static pages' in PHP or ASP? You can't tell from View Source. PHP is what the web should have had from the very beginning. ASP isn't that bad for that matter, you can always use perlscript for the language if you really have to. Practically any site of any level of usefulness benefits from dynamic content. It's the way the web is going, so it's more than relevant to any benchmark.
You too eh? It's interesting that Teesside is doing it as the place was pretty much cutting edge in the UK back in the mid-80s, when I was there (doing English, but hanging out with the nerds). In the end it's probably just a way of getting government funds into the department but full marks for trying.
Is anything on the Internet worth that much really? Here in the UK there's an investment house rolling out their net portfolio with the line that Yahoo is bigger than British Airways, based on a Yahoo valuation of $60 billion. At least BA can sell its planes...
Yep, it's credited to 'Stephen Bury' and is Stephenson and his father-in-law, who's apparently something of a name in the thriller market. There's also 'Cobweb' under that name, a sort of CIA procedural which is pretty cool.
The Internet will be as much a revolution to Africa as TV was twenty years ago. More so, as TV is by definition controlled by big business and government. The shortage of wire in Africa is largely down to the big problem of getting it in: overcoming the patronage, baksheesh, bribery, call it what you want, that it takes to get things done in much of the continent. By running the line around the coast Africa One can bring it ashore as required and leave the inland operations to local telcos.
Africa needs to brought up to speed - maybe this will help to stop the cycle of revolution and war that's holding development back.
'Windows' wasn't trademarked by MS: 'Microsoft Windows' is. The application was thrown out for the same reason as 'Open Source'.
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'The Cassini Division' by Ken McLeod is set in a future solar system where a virus has rendered all digital computers difficult or dangerous to use, so what computing there is is done by Babbage machines of varying sizes ranging from huge to nano. I'd never thought of it until I read it.
Beat me to it: Visual Cafe kills NT outright, and to give Bill his due, there are few apps that do that.
Well, went to check out the UF site this morning and it looks like legal advice has prevailed. Whether it's Bill or Intel taking exception to Sunday's colour strip or even a April 1 joke (but hey, it's past midday here) I dunno, but someone must be pretty annoyed.