In finnish, the word "orkut" is the plural form of the slang word for orgasm. Gives a completely new meaning for the idea of "Orkut is an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends."
That explains the huge percentage of Finnish signing up!
Plus, at $99 for the OS and 8 years worth of support.... that's a great freaking deal. To get 8 years worth of support out of redhat 9, you'd need to spend $60 per year times at least 6 more years on progeny's service, bringing the TCO of redhat 9 as a competing desktop to windows98 to $360. As much as I hate microsoft, and I do, that's an amazing value at $99.
Now you're starting to mix apples & oranges.
The "support" that you're getting from Microsoft for Windows 98 is nothing but whatever bug & security fixes they feel like making available to you. You do NOT get to call them about problems you are having. They will NOT fix your specific problems. You get nothing but bug fixes, and then only the ones that they feel like fixing & making available to you.
With Linux, you can get your patches from any one of multiple sources! If you're so inclined, you can download the patches yourself & recompile. The Fedora Legacy project is going to provide patches for the "abandoned" Redhat Linux releases in the near future, so you will be able to get your free bug fixes that way too. But if you pay someone like Progeny, you are hiring someone that you can call to fix your specific problems, which is a LOT more than your getting with your copy of Windows 98! So you can't compare their $60/year service to Microsoft's "support" of Win98.
Also, when Microsoft does finally decide to stop supporting Windows 98, you will have NO OPTIONS WHATSOEVER to get updates. With any Linux distribution, there will always be some way to continue getting your security and bug fixes.
How many people in the world can actually do this? Can you face ordinary people and tell them they should use Linux for this reason?
Try shutting your mouth and opening your mind just a wee bit, will ya?
There are already several companies that will offer support for older versions of RedHat Linux. The only reason these companies can offer this service is because the source code is available!
It doesn't matter if you can actually read the source to fix things! I don't buy a car because I know how to fix it, but I sure as hell want to be able to go to different mechanics across the country and have them be able to fix things!
What happens when Free software conquers all and all the software companies are put out of business, letting their programmers go?
In some ways, you'll have the same situation that we had back in the 60's and 70's. That is, software is not the end-product. It is sold along with hardware to make the hardware useful.
Remember, only "commonly used" software is going to be easily replaced with free software. Everyone needs an operating system, right? If there is a good, free operating system available, then companies and programmers can concentrate more on developing the specialized software. They can spend money on things besides MS Window licenses. It frees up both time & money to work on things that have not yet been "taken over" by free software.
Free software is not the end of the paid-programmer. It just allows programmers and companies to pay for & work on things besides the "commodity" pieces of software.
Well, it's not a big deal to RedHat whether you buy the new 3.0 or the old 2.1. You'll pay the same for either one. Also, once you've bought one version, you can upgrade to newer versions for free:
Note that all Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions include the right to upgrade to new versions at no additional cost.
Wow. I'm quite surprised that dnrd is even mentioned in that list!
I wrote that back when I had two machines sharing a dial-up connection, and I needed an easy way to switch nameservers whenever I used different dial-up services. (Auto-editing/etc/resolv.conf sucked).
It was a fun little project, and it (mostly) worked. But I'm on cable now, and have not used it for several years.
What is the URL to get mozilla to display all of the configuration options? I think you were able to also change the value of the options in this window. I'm pretty sure it was posted on/. in a previous article, but I can't find it anymore.
I have a Compaq Presario 486 that I bought back in 1994 as an upgrade to my 386. My favorite feature is the power supply. Back before I bought UPS's, it would survive momentary power failures that would make my Dell machines shutoff or reboot. It was like a built-in 1-second UPS.
It was my main machine until about 1998. It was a dual-boot linux/windows machine at the time.
Then it turned into my router/firewall/mail server/print server/SMB server. Ran RedHat Linux.
Just this year I purchased a wireless router, and another machine has taken over print server duties (a Windows XP Home machine, and it's having some strange problems I've yet to work out). My 486 is still my mail & SMB server though. Still working very well!
Check your cache settings. You can tell Mozilla / Netscape to reload a page in various ways from every time, never, once per session or when the page has expired.
But I don't want to change how caching behaves when I'm simply revisiting pages - I just want it to do a reload when I hit the reload button.
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This is one of my pet peeves about Mozilla/Netscape.
If you really, really want to reload a page, you have to hold down the shift key while clicking on the reload button.
I have no idea why the developers think it is useful to have a reload button that does something less than a full reload, nor do I know why they believe that a "shift-reload" (which is completely undocumented BTW) is an appropriate user interface for doing a real reload.
I bought 4 wireless routers this year, one each from Microcenter, Amazon, Staples, and Circuit City.
You want to know why shipments are up? I'll tell you why. It's because these companies are paying people to buy it! With all the rebates, coupons, and specials available the past few months, I am actually making money by buying this stuff!
Now I just need to figure out what to do with my extra 3 wireless routers. I'm currently thinking "Christmas presents".;-)
The agency guards the international reference kilogram and keeps it in a heavily guarded safe in a château outside Paris.
It is all part of my nefarious plot to take over the world! I am slowly stealing the kilogram standard, one microgram at a time! Those French guards are clueless!
Once I have obtained the entire reference kilogram, I will change it to be whatever I want! People will be fad-dieting to lose the extra 20kg's they picked up last night! With my recent investments in Jenny Craig and Richard Simmons workout videos, I'll be "sweating to the oldies" all the way to the bank!
Well, comedy is in the eye.. er, ear(?) of the beholder, but I didn't find it funny.
Gee, what a surprise
Assuming you are correct, though, close-to-truth posing as comedy is therefore more important that pointing out the truth and trying to get people to understand?
No, but making people chuckle is more important than acting like a pedantic know-it-all blowhard.
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- Google Orkut Development Team
The "support" that you're getting from Microsoft for Windows 98 is nothing but whatever bug & security fixes they feel like making available to you. You do NOT get to call them about problems you are having. They will NOT fix your specific problems. You get nothing but bug fixes, and then only the ones that they feel like fixing & making available to you.
With Linux, you can get your patches from any one of multiple sources! If you're so inclined, you can download the patches yourself & recompile. The Fedora Legacy project is going to provide patches for the "abandoned" Redhat Linux releases in the near future, so you will be able to get your free bug fixes that way too. But if you pay someone like Progeny, you are hiring someone that you can call to fix your specific problems, which is a LOT more than your getting with your copy of Windows 98! So you can't compare their $60/year service to Microsoft's "support" of Win98.
Also, when Microsoft does finally decide to stop supporting Windows 98, you will have NO OPTIONS WHATSOEVER to get updates. With any Linux distribution, there will always be some way to continue getting your security and bug fixes.
There are already several companies that will offer support for older versions of RedHat Linux. The only reason these companies can offer this service is because the source code is available!
It doesn't matter if you can actually read the source to fix things! I don't buy a car because I know how to fix it, but I sure as hell want to be able to go to different mechanics across the country and have them be able to fix things!
It's a shame that the resulting page hurts my eyes so much!
Can someone tell him that HIS WEBSITE IS NOT A BLOG, OTHERWISE HE WOULD BE INUNDATED WITH REPLIES!!!!
Thank you. ;-)
Remember, only "commonly used" software is going to be easily replaced with free software. Everyone needs an operating system, right? If there is a good, free operating system available, then companies and programmers can concentrate more on developing the specialized software. They can spend money on things besides MS Window licenses. It frees up both time & money to work on things that have not yet been "taken over" by free software.
Free software is not the end of the paid-programmer. It just allows programmers and companies to pay for & work on things besides the "commodity" pieces of software.
I wrote that back when I had two machines sharing a dial-up connection, and I needed an easy way to switch nameservers whenever I used different dial-up services. (Auto-editing /etc/resolv.conf sucked).
It was a fun little project, and it (mostly) worked. But I'm on cable now, and have not used it for several years.
Thanks!
What is the URL to get mozilla to display all of the configuration options? I think you were able to also change the value of the options in this window. I'm pretty sure it was posted on /. in a previous article, but I can't find it anymore.
It was my main machine until about 1998. It was a dual-boot linux/windows machine at the time.
Then it turned into my router/firewall/mail server/print server/SMB server. Ran RedHat Linux.
Just this year I purchased a wireless router, and another machine has taken over print server duties (a Windows XP Home machine, and it's having some strange problems I've yet to work out). My 486 is still my mail & SMB server though. Still working very well!
That's ok. I'll just get an American Express card instead.
I thought they were just eating the asparagus.
And yes, if a calculator doesn't have RPN and a stack, I just don't like using it. :P
Yep, my cover broke too. There's still enough intact that it stays on. Great calculator. I don't know what I'll do when/if it ever becomes unusable.
If you really, really want to reload a page, you have to hold down the shift key while clicking on the reload button.
I have no idea why the developers think it is useful to have a reload button that does something less than a full reload, nor do I know why they believe that a "shift-reload" (which is completely undocumented BTW) is an appropriate user interface for doing a real reload.
You want to know why shipments are up? I'll tell you why. It's because these companies are paying people to buy it! With all the rebates, coupons, and specials available the past few months, I am actually making money by buying this stuff!
Now I just need to figure out what to do with my extra 3 wireless routers. I'm currently thinking "Christmas presents". ;-)
Once I have obtained the entire reference kilogram, I will change it to be whatever I want! People will be fad-dieting to lose the extra 20kg's they picked up last night! With my recent investments in Jenny Craig and Richard Simmons workout videos, I'll be "sweating to the oldies" all the way to the bank!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Have a nice day!
The difference between your post and mine is something called comedy.