"But the big question was the "consumer" portable"
Look for an announcment about the middle of this year regarding Apple's consumer laptop, currently codenamed "P1". It reportedly has a passive matrix screen, and rumors of a "crank" to augment the battery life. We'll see what apple brings us, but I doubt very much that'll be a handheld unit. --- Donald Roeber
Everyone who works with domains should get a whois client utility if you don't have one. The InterNIC web whois gateway takes too much time, and some of the International domains do not operate web interfaces to their whois databases. NetLab for Win32 has a decent whois, and Peter Lewis's Finger for MacOS is fine too. Of course, UN*X whois is ideal.
Researching domain names or in-addrs? See:
Domain Name Registries Around the World- links to every single registrar out there:
Survey The Net (previously the Martinet whois gateway)- multifunctional whois gateway that queries most everything, including ARIN and international TLD registries, with no fuss:
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Posted by WideEye:
I've got one of those M$ Sidewinder joysticks, i wonder if you could use one of those as a chord keyboard. (Use the hat and the buttons under the right hand...)
The Mach kernal that Apple released is in fact a modified version of the "free Mach" you speak of, providing numerous benfits to the Macintosh developer community. People are forgetting that this open source move was first and foremost for Macintosh developers, not *nix hackers. Apple could simply wait for "newer versions" of BSD from other communties and then use it if they wanted. They would still reap the benefits, just from a different community.
NSI believes that the InterNIC registry information that it's been gathering belongs to them, and they've been providing it free out of the goodness of their heart. That may change, though....(shameless plug -- I'm doing a piece for the weekend on ABCNEWS.com)
As for WHOIS, that's available under Member Services from the homepage. And no, you don't need to be a member.
And as for competition...I wouldn't be surprised if they couldn't drum up enough interest for others to take on NSI's 800-lb gorilla.
This whole thing is kinda weird. I would suggest everybody keeping an eye on this situation...it could get stranger.
the author treats 'software engineering' as something that has happened in the past or may be happening now. i do wonder what definition of the term he is using. it is not in the footnotes.
Sorry couldnt resist it. So who do you believe? Microsoft, or.........er........Microsoft. Good article (not just because it supports Linux).
The best point is that it reminds you that one minute Microsoft views Linux as a worthy competitor, and then it proclaims Linux as something you shouldnt bother with.
>What about the War on Drugs, which trashes part of the Bill of Rights, and even has judges pissed at the intrusion into their work lives?
The war on drugs is pure idiocy. You can't save a man from his own desires.
>>What about egging on Ken Starr to invade the lives of people?
The democrats pushed to get the Independant Prosecutor statutes on the books, it just came back to bite them. Besides, Bill Clinton is THE exact model of what they had in mind when they wrote the law.(Excet they thought it would be a republican)
>>What about intrusion into the lives of women, who have their reproductive rights tinkerred with?
Is this a backdoor way to mention abortion? Tell me where in the US Constitution it is stated that a woman has the right to murder her own children?
>>What about intrusions into the lives of people all around the world, whose governments and economies have been trashed by the CIA and other wonderful GOP-sent Americans (many Democrats are guilty as well)? Does Chile ring a bell? Nicaragua? Iran? Vietnam? Jamaica?
Intelligence is important to all countries. Let me remind you that a democrat sent us into Vietnam.
>>What about the CDA? Were Republicans all lined up to denounce the thing?
Were democrats? Who signed it into law?
>>Despite many of my political heroes being Republican, they have become the Party of FUD and Deceit in the past two decades. The Democrats are only slightly better, but they'll have to get worse if they are to win elections on a more consistent basis. That's pretty sickening, isn't it?
FUD & deciet from the GOP? That's a joke and a half. The Democrats have been scaring old people shitless with their lies about GOP sponsored Social security cuts which never existed. How about the GOP sponsored growth of the federal school lunch program that the congressional democrats characterized as cuts?
How about the obvious and awful race baiting conducted by Jesse Jackson and Maxine Waters?
>> Anyone who says "Republicans Rule" (or "Democrats...", or "Libertarians...", etc) is missing the point. A bunch of lockstep ideology-zombies will more likely do more harm than good. What is needed is genius and deliberation, not scripts and spin.
Appearantly you don't get what it is to be a republican. Of course everyone should be a free thinker. To be a republican means to be a free thinkter and to freely choose to join the party.
Gee, why the hey is the US Govvy getting irritated over this? Maybe because they aren't getting their cut? (Seen on a bumper sticker: Don't steal, the Government hates competition.) True, monopolies suck ass better than a nuclear-powered Shop-Vac, but hey, I think it's best that they just stay the hell out of stuff that ain't their department... yet.
it's very simple, legalize marijuana, sell it for 99 cents a box, with a 9 dollar tax, tax money goes to getting everybody in america a free T1 in thier house.
Hemp & Marijuana are illegal because of all of their wonderous properties. Men like William Randolph Hearst exploited the racism and fear of minorities that was so prevalent in the early part of this century.
The man owned thousands of acres of trees that would have been made WORTHLESS after the hemp paper procedure was perfected. How many billionaires do you know who would be willing to let their fortunes disappear?
So among the average white people they spread rumors about drug crazed blacks and mexicans who smoke hemp. (The term Marijuana was popularized because it sounded like an exotic mexican word. To further scare the white peope)
Hemp was even made legal again for a breif peiod during WWII for the navy's ropes, some people still have the "Hemp for Victory" posters tha tthe government produced.
Granted, smokeable product and regular hemp look the same, it really makes no difference. People smoke it already anyway. The positive uses outweigh the negative a hundred times over.
Linux has already captured the market that matters: Geek desktops.
Everyone who is anyone is running Linux at home (at least in "test" mode). These people determine the future of the industry.
I'd like to see the following poll run (unbiased):
A I am a programmer/tech/sysadmin and I use Linux B I am a programmer/tech/sysadmin and I don't use Linux C I am not a programmer/tech/sysadmin and I use Linux D I am not a programmer/tech/sysadmin and I don't use Linux
Yup I agree this is a more level playing field. It's hard to compare a jacked-up sun with a PC, cheap or otherwise. Some of my colleagues think Solaris on Intel will get them out of buying sun hardware...completely. I'm not sure about that, especially given some of the arguments elsewhere on these pages!
The $20 is an installation charge for Linux, not a charge for Linux itself.
Dell's list price for NT, Win '98, '95, or Linux is $0.
RH Linux 5.2 does not support all of the options available on a Dell Precision Workstation, therefore the configurations available are limited.
90 days of support through Linuxcare comes standard on Precision Workstations loaded with Linux for a charge of $0. Workstations loaded with Linux are not charged for NT support (see below).
1 Year of NT support comes standard on Precision Workstations that are loaded with NT for a charge of $199 (list).
Add up the above, and tell me if you still think you are being charged a high premium for Linux.
I've gotta agree. NO offense to Kipling, but the very fact the page is still up seems a bit fishy. ALso, all the hacked pages I've ever seen usually say soemthing other than "We've been cracked", or at least say it in a different way. After all, if you're gonna do it, why not decry Kipling for being so stupd about the whole thing to begin with?
It's not possible. Everything we do in this country is about liberal ideas vs. conservative ideas.
Earlier this year when the Prisident faces trial in the Senate the issue was not "Is he guilty of the charges against him?", The issue was "Should we stand by our man?".
This battle is for the soul of this country. This war is to determine the shape of the world for generations to come. The moral, ethical, and intellectual bankruptcy of modern liberalism is at the core of the battle. Liberals change their minds on key issues like integrity means nothing. 6 years ago Al Gore bragged that he'd grown, and sold tobacco when he was trying to get the votes of tobacco farmers. Today he does his best to put those farmers out of work.
In 1972 Edward Kennedy was an outspoken Pro-Life politician. Two years later he was a "Pro-Choice" hero. Why? Because like all good little liberals he follows the party line.
I realize the/. isn't the best forum in the world to sidcuss this, but it enrages me when I see someone pretend that something as important as this is a trivial matter.
Let me remind you all that the goal of the GOP is as few government intrusions into our lives as possible.
Speaker Newt is an honorable man. He is one politician whom I'd trust to drive my little sister home from the mall. Who can say that about ALGORE (the father of the internet, NOT) or Comrade Clinton?
Dropping taxes INCREASES revenue. Stores don't have sales to lose money, now do they? Lower prices (taxes) will cause more economic activity and increase your revenue in the long run. It is that increase that could pay for T-1 speed access for everyone.
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Posted by stefandi:
The author calls the dvorak keyboard slower
than QWERTY. Does anyone know, what kind of
studies he refers to?
Stefan
Posted by DonR:
"But the big question was the "consumer" portable"
Look for an announcment about the middle of this year regarding Apple's consumer laptop, currently codenamed "P1". It reportedly has a passive matrix screen, and rumors of a "crank" to augment the battery life. We'll see what apple brings us, but I doubt very much that'll be a handheld unit.
---
Donald Roeber
Everyone who works with domains should get a whois client utility if you don't have one. The InterNIC web whois gateway takes too much time, and some of the International domains do not operate web interfaces to their whois databases. NetLab for Win32 has a decent whois, and Peter Lewis's Finger for MacOS is fine too. Of course, UN*X whois is ideal.
Researching domain names or in-addrs? See:
Domain Name Registries Around the World- links to every single registrar out there:
Survey The Net (previously the Martinet whois gateway)- multifunctional whois gateway that queries most everything, including ARIN and international TLD registries, with no fuss:
-MAOi
Posted by WideEye:
I've got one of those M$ Sidewinder joysticks, i wonder if you could use one of those as a chord keyboard. (Use the hat and the buttons under the right hand...)
-WideEye
Posted by Ryan Webb:
The Mach kernal that Apple released is in fact a modified version of the "free Mach" you speak of, providing numerous benfits to the Macintosh developer community. People are forgetting that this open source move was first and foremost for Macintosh developers, not *nix hackers. Apple could simply wait for "newer versions" of BSD from other communties and then use it if they wanted. They would still reap the benefits, just from a different community.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
NSI believes that the InterNIC registry information that it's been gathering belongs to them, and they've been providing it free out of the goodness of their heart. That may change, though....(shameless plug -- I'm doing a piece for the weekend on ABCNEWS.com)
As for WHOIS, that's available under Member Services from the homepage. And no, you don't need to be a member.
And as for competition...I wouldn't be surprised if they couldn't drum up enough interest for others to take on NSI's 800-lb gorilla.
This whole thing is kinda weird. I would suggest everybody keeping an eye on this situation...it could get stranger.
Posted by nokaos:
the author treats 'software engineering' as something that has happened in the past or may be happening now. i do wonder what definition of the term he is using. it is not in the footnotes.
Posted by stodge:
Sorry couldnt resist it. So who do you believe? Microsoft, or.........er........Microsoft. Good article (not just because it supports Linux).
The best point is that it reminds you that one minute Microsoft views Linux as a worthy competitor, and then it proclaims Linux as something you shouldnt bother with.
Oh well, I enjoyed it
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
I'll take this point by point.
>What about the War on Drugs, which trashes part of the Bill of Rights, and even has judges pissed at the intrusion into their work lives?
The war on drugs is pure idiocy. You can't save a man from his own desires.
>>What about egging on Ken Starr to invade the lives of people?
The democrats pushed to get the Independant Prosecutor statutes on the books, it just came back to bite them. Besides, Bill Clinton is THE exact model of what they had in mind when they wrote the law.(Excet they thought it would be a republican)
>>What about intrusion into the lives of women, who have their reproductive rights tinkerred with?
Is this a backdoor way to mention abortion? Tell me where in the US Constitution it is stated that a woman has the right to murder her own children?
>>What about intrusions into the lives of people all around the world, whose governments and economies have been trashed by the CIA and other wonderful GOP-sent Americans (many Democrats are guilty as well)? Does Chile ring a bell? Nicaragua? Iran? Vietnam? Jamaica?
Intelligence is important to all countries. Let me remind you that a democrat sent us into Vietnam.
>>What about the CDA? Were Republicans all lined up to denounce the thing?
Were democrats? Who signed it into law?
>>Despite many of my political heroes being Republican, they have become the Party of FUD and Deceit in the past two decades. The Democrats are only slightly better, but they'll have to get worse if they are to win elections on a more consistent basis. That's pretty sickening, isn't it?
FUD & deciet from the GOP? That's a joke and a half. The Democrats have been scaring old people shitless with their lies about GOP sponsored Social security cuts which never existed. How about the GOP sponsored growth of the federal school lunch program that the congressional democrats characterized as cuts?
How about the obvious and awful race baiting conducted by Jesse Jackson and Maxine Waters?
>> Anyone who says "Republicans Rule" (or "Democrats...", or "Libertarians...", etc) is missing the point. A bunch of lockstep ideology-zombies will more likely do more harm than good. What is needed is genius and deliberation, not scripts and spin.
Appearantly you don't get what it is to be a republican. Of course everyone should be a free thinker. To be a republican means to be a free thinkter and to freely choose to join the party.
LK
Posted by Cassull:
Gee, why the hey is the US Govvy getting irritated over this? Maybe because they aren't getting their cut? (Seen on a bumper sticker: Don't steal, the Government hates competition.) True, monopolies suck ass better than a nuclear-powered Shop-Vac, but hey, I think it's best that they just stay the hell out of stuff that ain't their department... yet.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Newt is honorable. He did divorce her, instead of porking his brains ou tin his office at tax payer expense.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
There are only three reasons to travel ffrom the US to canada, Niagra Falls, Cuban Cigars, and the Bacon.
I am by no means rich, but I can afford $70 ($85 canadian) for medical insurance every month.
Even middle class canadians have been known to come to the US for medical procedures that your socialized system makes too difficult to get.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Don't forget the lumber industry's lobbyists.
LK
Posted by 244:
it's very simple, legalize marijuana, sell it for 99 cents a box, with a 9 dollar tax, tax money goes to getting everybody in america a free T1 in thier house.
if only life could be soo simple?
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
You need to learn your history. Marijuana is illegal because of it's relationship to hemp.
MJ wasn't a threat to the rich and powerful elite. Hemp was.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Hemp & Marijuana are illegal because of all of their wonderous properties. Men like William Randolph Hearst exploited the racism and fear of minorities that was so prevalent in the early part of this century.
The man owned thousands of acres of trees that would have been made WORTHLESS after the hemp paper procedure was perfected. How many billionaires do you know who would be willing to let their fortunes disappear?
So among the average white people they spread rumors about drug crazed blacks and mexicans who smoke hemp. (The term Marijuana was popularized because it sounded like an exotic mexican word. To further scare the white peope)
Hemp was even made legal again for a breif peiod during WWII for the navy's ropes, some people still have the "Hemp for Victory" posters tha tthe government produced.
Granted, smokeable product and regular hemp look the same, it really makes no difference. People smoke it already anyway. The positive uses outweigh the negative a hundred times over.
LK
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
Linux has already captured the market that matters: Geek desktops.
Everyone who is anyone is running Linux at home (at least in "test" mode). These people determine the future of the industry.
I'd like to see the following poll run (unbiased):
A I am a programmer/tech/sysadmin and I use Linux
B I am a programmer/tech/sysadmin and I don't use Linux
C I am not a programmer/tech/sysadmin and I use Linux
D I am not a programmer/tech/sysadmin and I don't use Linux
I suspect you will see D > A > B > C > 0
Posted by Akira410:
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http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnI
Someone sent a barns & nobles link to an $18 copy.
Heres another link to a $504.00 Copy. Hehe That must be the NT Server version.
Posted by bSMfh (bastard ScoutMaster fro:
Yup I agree this is a more level playing field.
It's hard to compare a jacked-up sun with a PC,
cheap or otherwise.
Some of my colleagues think Solaris on Intel will get them out of buying sun hardware...completely.
I'm not sure about that, especially given some of the arguments elsewhere on these pages!
Posted by ElvisTheKing:
This is not my opinion, these are facts:
The $20 is an installation charge for Linux, not a charge for Linux itself.
Dell's list price for NT, Win '98, '95, or Linux is $0.
RH Linux 5.2 does not support all of the options available on a Dell Precision Workstation, therefore the configurations available are limited.
90 days of support through Linuxcare comes standard on Precision Workstations loaded with Linux for a charge of $0. Workstations loaded with Linux are not charged for NT support (see below).
1 Year of NT support comes standard on Precision Workstations that are loaded with NT for a charge of $199 (list).
Add up the above, and tell me if you still think you are being charged a high premium for Linux.
Posted by Wereling#3:
I've gotta agree. NO offense to Kipling, but the very fact the page is still up seems a bit fishy. ALso, all the hacked pages I've ever seen usually say soemthing other than "We've been cracked", or at least say it in a different way. After all, if you're gonna do it, why not decry Kipling for being so stupd about the whole thing to begin with?
Posted by Buffy the Overflow Slayer:
The Kennedy, Kitty Hawk, and Constellation are
not nuclear powered aircraft carriers.
-buffy
If the Titanic was full of lawyers, it would not
have been a disaster.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
/. isn't the best forum in the world to sidcuss this, but it enrages me when I see someone pretend that something as important as this is a trivial matter.
It's not possible. Everything we do in this country is about liberal ideas vs. conservative ideas.
Earlier this year when the Prisident faces trial in the Senate the issue was not "Is he guilty of the charges against him?", The issue was "Should we stand by our man?".
This battle is for the soul of this country. This war is to determine the shape of the world for generations to come. The moral, ethical, and intellectual bankruptcy of modern liberalism is at the core of the battle. Liberals change their minds on key issues like integrity means nothing. 6 years ago Al Gore bragged that he'd grown, and sold tobacco when he was trying to get the votes of tobacco farmers. Today he does his best to put those farmers out of work.
In 1972 Edward Kennedy was an outspoken Pro-Life politician. Two years later he was a "Pro-Choice" hero. Why? Because like all good little liberals he follows the party line.
I realize the
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
If our medical system is so horrible in the US, why then do we have people flocking in from all over the globe to make use of it?
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Let me remind you all that the goal of the GOP is as few government intrusions into our lives as possible.
Speaker Newt is an honorable man. He is one politician whom I'd trust to drive my little sister home from the mall. Who can say that about ALGORE (the father of the internet, NOT) or Comrade Clinton?
Dropping taxes INCREASES revenue. Stores don't have sales to lose money, now do they? Lower prices (taxes) will cause more economic activity and increase your revenue in the long run. It is that increase that could pay for T-1 speed access for everyone.
LK