More like, way to sell out. The Alpha platform is much older and is actually more powerful than the Itanic. There is nothing to be happy about here, it is just the end of the line for the DEC tradition of excellence that began with the PDP-10.
Welcome to the end of DEC excellence. The sooner HP dies the better. HP has done nothing innovative for computing in the last decade. Instead of spending money porting OpenVMS to Itanic, they should be out getting Apple to run on Alpha and get EV8 out the door. Then go back to Microsoft and re-open DEC West. HP kow-towing to Intel, instead of commercializing a superior architecture.
1000 users is really pretty small, even for Exchange. However, HP's OpenMail provides calendar, address book and email functionality to Outlook users and runs on *NIX. Lotus Notes/Domino also runs on Sun, and I understand they were trying to make the Outlook client fully compatible with Outlook. Exchange can be scary if something gets corrupted. I was once involved with an Exchange server that had a single corrupt mailbox that was responsible for blowing up an Exchange box with 1000+ other users. Microsoft flew people in to help, but they couldn't do much other than to say rebuild and restore from tapes taken previous to the corruption. Remember, Exhange was built to run on top of a modified version of the Microsoft Jet (MS-Access) database (called Jet Blue). Unless you are going to use the latest version of Exchange that can use a SQL Server 7.0 back-end, be scared, very scared of Exchange if it crashes.
It is nice to see my favorite OS (next comes OpenBSD) come back as a brand new, renamed, repainted, ten year old OS! I don't quite understand why Apple is getting so much attention about catching up to the rest of the world about ten years too late. Display Postscript with the NeXTStep gui kicked ass. Now, if Steve Jobs will quit fscking around with colors and make all the boxes black cubes I will be right back where I was in 1991 and the world will have finally caught up... ( and that soft, female voice that says: "Your printer is out of paper.")
Well, they may have or had the largest market capitalization (Price of stock * Number of shares outstanding), but I don't think they are the 'largest company'. There is some guy (link anyone?) who has been saying that Microsoft (and others) have actually been losing money based on the cost of stock options being exercised. The thing is that unlike salary the cost to companies of employees exercising the stock options are not count considered an expense on the balance sheet.
So to the government it looks like Microsoft isn't making money, but on the income statement it looks like they are. The controversy is whether or not the cost to companies of these options should be on the balance sheet as an expense.
It is also interesting to note that Microsoft increases their revenue by writing puts and calls (listed options) on their stock. If you took away this extra revenue and counted the employee options as an expense I think that investors would really be shocked at how poorly Microsoft is doing.
IANAL but according the the United States Postal Service (USPS) unsolicted merchandise must have:
"attached to it a clear and conspicuous statement informing the recipient that he may treat the merchandise as a gift to him and has the right to retain, use, discard, or dispose of it in any manner he sees fit without any obligation whatsoever to the sender."
This is not the case as Digital Convergence states thatt you are bound by the EULA by: "; (2) using the:CueCat reader . They have further asserted in the EULA:
The:CueCat reader is only on loan to you from Digital:Convergence and may be recalled at any time. Without limiting the foregoing, your possession or control of the:CueCat reader does not transfer any right, title or interest to you in the:CueCat reader.
If you were sent a:CueCat as unsolicted merchandise through the US Mail it is considered a gift and you have the right to retain, use, discard or dispose of the:CueCat in any way you want and you are under *no* obligation to the sender. When you file your complaint with the USPS let them know that the sender(DC) has sent unsolicited merchandise that they claim is not a gift, that they attempted to put restrictions on your use of the item, and have placed you under obligations to them. feel free to use the:CueCat device in anyway you see fit.
People were in fact sent unsolicited packages in the US. Subscribers to Wired and Fortune magazines were sent CueCat's and they did not order the merchandise.
"I was a bit surprised when I tried my Kodak DC 280," Claiborne said. "In Windows I have to put the flash card into an adapter which connects via a serial port and then Windows sees it as another drive and I have to take them off one by one. In Linux, I hook my camera up to my USB slot, run Gphoto and there are all my files."
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Not true... I have a KodakDC280 and it works fine in Windows via a direct USB connection. No need for a separate CompactFlash card reader. Kodak even finally released Win2K drivers a little while back. I hate to nitpick, but it's better than having inaccuracy in the story...:D
I hate to nitpick a nitpick, but maybe she was using Windows NT 4.0. No USB support last time I checked.
They *may* stop sending you offers, but what if they still log your requests? Then as they burn their venture capital, or are helped to burn capital by/.'ers with 5+ Cuecats, they may look to sell out their *entire* database with your information just like Amazon and others.
I would think that disabling the id would be the most effective way to insure that your Cuecat usage data remains private.
I am not sure that the "conservative" Christians fighting for this understand the possible ramifications of promoting filtering technologies.
What these people forget is that they too can be censored. With recent court rulings about school prayer and religion in schools, how long until schools block religious sites?
Parents (and guardians) should teach their children, not rely on censorware/television/video games/movies/books to *NOT* present children with unwelcome ideas.
I shouldn't have done it, but I actually looked at the FAQs on curry.com and found Adam Curry has posted a picture of his helicopter on his site. Hey, if this clueless, ex-VJ calling himself a CTO has a helicopter then CmdrTaco should have a heliTACOpter, too! Maybe he could get the N number (US aircraft tail number) N1CT to go with it. How about it Cmdr?
I first want to say that I have the utmost respect for W. Richard Stevens and have all of his books and this post is *not* a troll.
I guess that inquiring minds want to know, but I am interested in what caused his untimely demise.
Does anyone know?
It uses SMB for the clients, but it supports any lpd capable printer. That means you don't need the HP server, just use lpr and print to the printer directly. Why they run lpd on the thing, I don't understand. It would be so easy to do, especially since they are running a Linux kernel.
But, if you *think* you need this device and are running Linux, maybe you should install Windows.
This "report" is full of crap. Mac(Kenzie) on crack states: "the mere existence of a large number of Windows-based applications proves that Microsoft has stirred competition among software developers"
Let's get Mac off the pipe for a second and analyze this:
1. These are applications not operating systems, that is where the monopoly lies.
2. How many of these applications are available for other operating systems?
3. If you produced a weighted index based on the number of users of these applications, and then calculated the availability of the applications, what would you get?
4. The real definition of a monopoly has to do with the price elasticity of a product. If Microsoft raised the price of office by 50% would they still sell as many copies? (Yes, they in fact raised the price by approximately 50% between 95/97 if I remember correctly.)
I normally like stuff from the Cato Institute, but I have to wonder how much billg paid for this... I mean I was a mere Economics major, not professor and I can still do the calculations to prove Microsoft is a monopoly!
I don't think this was a stunt, because the only star of *any* stunts at Apple has to be the Big Kahuna himself, Steve Jobs. Doesn't it sound like little Stevie is just pissed off? An employee took away his big suprise and now he is going to throw a little temper tantrum. You shouldn't violate NDA's, but Steve Jobs is has the emotional development of an eleven year old...
Great link, a site that bashes Microsoft but supports amazon.com. I don't like Microsoft, but at least they aren't filing frivolous web patents, like amazon.com. Dave, I suggest you refocus your energy and zeal to fight real threats like the DMCA or frivolous patents. These are the real threats to your freedom.
I don't think that the patent is specific to a Unix based rdbms, so you might want to include DEC's rdb product (now owned by Oracle) that ran on VMS, Tandem's database system, IBM's db2 and probably many others.
Sun has a long history of denying and/or hiding problems with their software and hardware until they have a fix available.
I don't particularly like their attitude since it leaves customers trying to troubleshoot things that they can't fix. I remember one really nasty example about 8 years ago when a server running SunOS was upgraded by adding processors. Every couple hours the processor usage would shoot through the roof and the response time would suck, but the processors weren't actually doing anything! Sun would not admit that there was a race condition in SunOS, *until* they had a patch to fix it.
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Congratulations????
More like, way to sell out. The Alpha platform is much older and is actually more powerful than the Itanic. There is nothing to be happy about here, it is just the end of the line for the DEC tradition of excellence that began with the PDP-10.
Welcome to the end of DEC excellence. The sooner HP dies the better. HP has done nothing innovative for computing in the last decade. Instead of spending money porting OpenVMS to Itanic, they should be out getting Apple to run on Alpha and get EV8 out the door. Then go back to Microsoft and re-open DEC West. HP kow-towing to Intel, instead of commercializing a superior architecture.
You can make your own ISO and distribute it to the world...
1000 users is really pretty small, even for Exchange. However, HP's OpenMail provides calendar, address book and email functionality to Outlook users and runs on *NIX. Lotus Notes/Domino also runs on Sun, and I understand they were trying to make the Outlook client fully compatible with Outlook. Exchange can be scary if something gets corrupted. I was once involved with an Exchange server that had a single corrupt mailbox that was responsible for blowing up an Exchange box with 1000+ other users. Microsoft flew people in to help, but they couldn't do much other than to say rebuild and restore from tapes taken previous to the corruption. Remember, Exhange was built to run on top of a modified version of the Microsoft Jet (MS-Access) database (called Jet Blue). Unless you are going to use the latest version of Exchange that can use a SQL Server 7.0 back-end, be scared, very scared of Exchange if it crashes.
dmp
hmmm...
200mhz computer w/128mb and enet. - Onsale.com - $139
Netgear enet card - cdw.com - $18
OpenBSD 2.7 - OpenBSD.org - $free
Having the most secure open source based firewall. - Priceless.
( and that soft, female voice that says: "Your printer is out of paper.")
If I remember correctly that FTP problem was not isolated to just OpebBSD, but affected a number of different FTP servers.
dmp
Wouldn't that be e=d modulo a.
So to the government it looks like Microsoft isn't making money, but on the income statement it looks like they are. The controversy is whether or not the cost to companies of these options should be on the balance sheet as an expense.
It is also interesting to note that Microsoft increases their revenue by writing puts and calls (listed options) on their stock. If you took away this extra revenue and counted the employee options as an expense I think that investors would really be shocked at how poorly Microsoft is doing.
dmp
"attached to it a clear and conspicuous statement informing the recipient that he may treat the merchandise as a gift to him and has the right to retain, use, discard, or dispose of it in any manner he sees fit without any obligation whatsoever to the sender."
This is not the case as Digital Convergence states thatt you are bound by the EULA by: "; (2) using the
The
If you were sent a
dmp
I'm sorry, but you are incorrect. Digital Convergence's own press release states, "Digital:Convergence Deploys Millions of :CueCat Devices and :CRQ Software Free to American Consumers." Just because Wired/Forbes/Delta sponsored the mailing really doesn't matter, Digital:Convergence is responsible for distributing them.
If you are sick of this story, then don't read the story or post comments about it.
dmp
People were in fact sent unsolicited packages in the US. Subscribers to Wired and Fortune magazines were sent CueCat's and they did not order the merchandise.
dmp
"I was a bit surprised when I tried my Kodak DC 280," Claiborne said. "In Windows I have to put the flash card into an adapter which connects via a serial port and then Windows sees it as another drive and I have to take them off one by one. In Linux, I hook my camera up to my USB slot, run Gphoto and there are all my files."
:D
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Not true... I have a KodakDC280 and it works fine in Windows via a direct USB connection. No need for a separate CompactFlash card reader. Kodak even finally released Win2K drivers a little while back. I hate to nitpick, but it's better than having inaccuracy in the story...
I hate to nitpick a nitpick, but maybe she was using Windows NT 4.0. No USB support last time I checked.
dmp
They *may* stop sending you offers, but what if they still log your requests? Then as they burn their venture capital, or are helped to burn capital by
I would think that disabling the id would be the most effective way to insure that your Cuecat usage data remains private.
dmp
What these people forget is that they too can be censored. With recent court rulings about school prayer and religion in schools, how long until schools block religious sites?
Parents (and guardians) should teach their children, not rely on censorware/television/video games/movies/books to *NOT* present children with unwelcome ideas.
dmp
I know they aren't a "company" per se, but they should get top billing at F*ckedCompany.com anyway! dmp
dmp
I guess that inquiring minds want to know, but I am interested in what caused his untimely demise.
Does anyone know?
dmp
It uses SMB for the clients, but it supports any lpd capable printer. That means you don't need the HP server, just use lpr and print to the printer directly. Why they run lpd on the thing, I don't understand. It would be so easy to do, especially since they are running a Linux kernel.
But, if you *think* you need this device and are running Linux, maybe you should install Windows.
dmp
"the mere existence of a large number of Windows-based applications proves that Microsoft has stirred competition among software developers"
Let's get Mac off the pipe for a second and analyze this:
1. These are applications not operating systems, that is where the monopoly lies.
2. How many of these applications are available for other operating systems?
3. If you produced a weighted index based on the number of users of these applications, and then calculated the availability of the applications, what would you get?
4. The real definition of a monopoly has to do with the price elasticity of a product. If Microsoft raised the price of office by 50% would they still sell as many copies? (Yes, they in fact raised the price by approximately 50% between 95/97 if I remember correctly.)
I normally like stuff from the Cato Institute, but I have to wonder how much billg paid for this... I mean I was a mere Economics major, not professor and I can still do the calculations to prove Microsoft is a monopoly!
dmp
I don't think this was a stunt, because the only star of *any* stunts at Apple has to be the Big Kahuna himself, Steve Jobs. Doesn't it sound like little Stevie is just pissed off? An employee took away his big suprise and now he is going to throw a little temper tantrum. You shouldn't violate NDA's, but Steve Jobs is has the emotional development of an eleven year old...
dmp
Doug
ps. Your ps made you sound like a karma whore.
I don't think that the patent is specific to a Unix based rdbms, so you might want to include DEC's rdb product (now owned by Oracle) that ran on VMS, Tandem's database system, IBM's db2 and probably many others.
Sun has a long history of denying and/or hiding problems with their software and hardware until they have a fix available.
I don't particularly like their attitude since it leaves customers trying to troubleshoot things that they can't fix. I remember one really nasty example about 8 years ago when a server running SunOS was upgraded by adding processors. Every couple hours the processor usage would shoot through the roof and the response time would suck, but the processors weren't actually doing anything! Sun would not admit that there was a race condition in SunOS, *until* they had a patch to fix it.
...but it is just going to seem funny having Linux users running AOHELL.
Then he would let you spit...