Watched it, recorded it, watched it again! It was great! Yeah, too Red Hat-centric, but wtf. I just LOVED the part about the City of Medina using it to store all the plans for Bill's house on a Linux server (I live in Seattle, just across Lake Washington from Medina). They failed to mention, though, that the City's server runs Caldera, not Red Hat. Can you believe that Bill didn't GIVE them a computer, just to avoid what's turning out to be a hilariously bad piece of negative free press for M$?
Anyways, thoroughly enjoyable. I just sat there grinning and giggling like a fool. Bob Young looks like he's having a ball, too.:)
Oh, and piss off to all you whiners who complain about the piece. Get over it. It was fun, relatively accurate, it slammed Microsoft, and it described the most basic differences between Linux and M$ (freedom and stability) in ways that Joe Average can understand, even if they've never touched a computer.
Those of you who pooh-pooh the siginificance of this blow my mind. Are you on the M$ payroll? Maybe they didn't replace *all* their computers with Linux, but I would say that 1300 Linux boxes is quite significant.
Not only that, check out their home page. They advertise the Linux implementation right on the front page!
No matter what anyone else says, this is exactly the kind of mainstream corporate acceptance we've been hoping for all along.
I was unable to find an email address, but there is a discussion forum here.
Here is the message I posted:
"Subject: Intel CoDecs for Linux?
There is currently a discussion on Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/02/12/1342224.s html
...regarding this subject. I would think that Intel would at least consider it, given their support of Red Hat and the commitment to Linux on Merced.
How about it, Intel? At the very least, it would be great to have a free binary available to play files encoded using the latest Intel standards. I'm sure the Linux Community would prefer something open source, but that's not completely necessary.
Please give it some consideration.
Cheers, Matthew"
Perhaps a/. effect of postings might raise some awareness, eh?
I (am forced to) use NT at work on a AMD K6 233Mhz with 64mb, and it is TOTALLY annoying. It pauses and fits and starts CONSTANTLY. This happens if I'm typing a Word document, opening a spreadsheet or whatever. It just pauses for a second or two all the time! It drives me crazy. I would NEVER use this OS at home based on this experience.
Can anyone out there comment on their experiences with NTWS4.0SP3 (or similar)? Have you come across the same thing? What about anyone using the OS maybe at work on some high-powered Intel-based computers?
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Watched it, recorded it, watched it again! It was great! Yeah, too Red Hat-centric, but wtf. I just LOVED the part about the City of Medina using it to store all the plans for Bill's house on a Linux server (I live in Seattle, just across Lake Washington from Medina). They failed to mention, though, that the City's server runs Caldera, not Red Hat. Can you believe that Bill didn't GIVE them a computer, just to avoid what's turning out to be a hilariously bad piece of negative free press for M$?
:)
Anyways, thoroughly enjoyable. I just sat there grinning and giggling like a fool. Bob Young looks like he's having a ball, too.
Oh, and piss off to all you whiners who complain about the piece. Get over it. It was fun, relatively accurate, it slammed Microsoft, and it described the most basic differences between Linux and M$ (freedom and stability) in ways that Joe Average can understand, even if they've never touched a computer.
Those of you who pooh-pooh the siginificance of this blow my mind. Are you on the M$ payroll? Maybe they didn't replace *all* their computers with Linux, but I would say that 1300 Linux boxes is quite significant.
Not only that, check out their home page. They advertise the Linux implementation right on the front page!
No matter what anyone else says, this is exactly the kind of mainstream corporate acceptance we've been hoping for all along.
I was unable to find an email address, but there is a discussion forum here.
s html
...regarding this subject. I would think that Intel would at least consider it, given their support of Red Hat and the commitment to Linux on Merced.
/. effect of postings might raise some awareness, eh?
Here is the message I posted:
"Subject: Intel CoDecs for Linux?
There is currently a discussion on Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/02/12/1342224.
How about it, Intel? At the very least, it would be great to have a free binary available to play files encoded using the latest Intel standards. I'm sure the Linux Community would prefer something open source, but that's not completely necessary.
Please give it some consideration.
Cheers, Matthew"
Perhaps a
I (am forced to) use NT at work on a AMD K6 233Mhz with 64mb, and it is TOTALLY annoying. It pauses and fits and starts CONSTANTLY. This happens if I'm typing a Word document, opening a spreadsheet or whatever. It just pauses for a second or two all the time! It drives me crazy. I would NEVER use this OS at home based on this experience.
Can anyone out there comment on their experiences with NTWS4.0SP3 (or similar)? Have you come across the same thing? What about anyone using the OS maybe at work on some high-powered Intel-based computers?
I'd be interested to hear...
Cheers,
Matthew
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