Since Athlons use the Alpha bus, does the recent purchase of the Alpha line of processors by Intel affect AMD at all? (ie. Intel now owns the Athlon core)
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you silly fuck. they used the word "mecha", not "robot". go fuck yourself. ------------
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I hear the/. crew employs quite a few gerbils in secret activities. ------------
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It must have captured it while I was sleeping. Do yourself a favor. Go to a local high school, pick a random class. Walk in, and go "raise your hand if you know what Linux is." If the majority raise their hands then you are right. Otherwise, you are mistaken. Linux has NOT captured the minds of the 12-21 year old males, or else we would see the majority of games written for Linux, instead of for Windows. ------------
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With a targeted platform of the X-BOX, I wonder if it would be possible for the WINE team to get FF running under WINE. If so, this would be another feather in Linux's cap such as Quake 3, Civ, HOMM, etc. For Linux to truly be accepted on the desktop, it needs to gain marketshare with 12-21 year old males, which is the proven target audience to market PC's to. (I should know, I'm a marketing major.) Games are a major way to earn mindshare, and for Linux to be truly successful, it must have games that can compete with Windows, PS2, etc. ------------
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see, bitching and complaining really DOES work ------------
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On some enterprise systems, the administrator has the option to have passwords checked against a dictionary for common words, palindromes or other easily guessed passwords. If you are interested in such "smart" password software, check out npasswd at: http://www.utexas.edu/cc/unix/software/npasswd/ - -----------
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If you honestly think that USENET is/was more important than the WWW, I think you are sadly wrong. The WWW has made Grandma and Grampa and Mom and Pop go on the Internet. I don't remember any kind of surge to the Internet in 1979 when USENET started. I bet almost anyone would agree that the WWW had much more of an impact that USENET. ------------
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Actually, I would say that the two packages are functionally equivalent, since the "cross pollination of ideas" was more than evident in this case. So, both Debian and Mandrakesoft can be commended in their creation of two very nice software management system. Most people would say that apt-get is the equivalent to the "install-anywhere" program so prevalent in Windows. Development of easy installation programs such as these help improve Linux's acceptance in the IS world today. ------------
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A good factor in Linux acceptance has been Linus' conformance to the POSIX spec regarding Pthreads. It would be very beneficial if IBM were to stick to the spec exactly, thus making it easy to port large systems from AIX and Solaris, thereby increasing Linux marketshare. It is good to see a large corporation like IBM actually helping in Open Source development and actively contributing time and money to the Linux kernel development efforts. ------------
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Recently, many Unix vendors are jumping shift and changing their focus to Linux, such as Compaq, who recently sold Alpha to Intel. It is obvious that Compaq will stop selling Tru64 and OpenVMS and roll Tru64 features into Linux for a value added package. I have also heard from an inside source at HP that HP-UX is not long for this world. The HP engineers are quickly looking for parts of HP-UX that can be added to Linux 2.4. So, watch for many, many old Unix vendors to be making the shift to Linux soon. Even good old IBM has a finger in the pie! ------------
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right, except GAIM wasn't the only one that got the letter. I develop the program formely known as jaim and I got it too. ------------
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We represent America Online, Inc. (AOL), with respect to its intellectual property matters. Our client is the owner of federal Registration Nos. 2,423,368 and 2,423,367 for its mark AIM (hereinafter, the AIM Mark) and operates the most widely-used interactive online service in the world. Our client has made extensive use of its AIM Mark in interstate and international commerce in connection with the advertising, promotion, and sale of its Internet and computer-related goods and services. Due to our clients widespread use, advertising, and extensive marketing, its AIM Mark has become very famous and many consumers recognize the mark as a distinctive symbol of our clients goodwill. Our client also uses the mark AIM.COM in connection with providing information via computer networks. As a result, consumers associate the mark AIM, when used in a software name or internet related service, with our clients high quality products and services. It has come to our attention that you are distributing an online communication software product using the AIM Mark at several web sites. Our client is concerned that your unauthorized use of its famous AIM Mark in this manner is likely to confuse consumers and, in addition, dilutes the distinctive qualities of the AIM Mark. We assume you similarly do not wish to mislead consumers and we request that you discontinue use of any name(s) that incorporate our client's marks, or marks confusingly similar to them. Additionally, the proprietary software used to operate the AIM service is owned solely by AOL and unauthorized distribution of our client's software, or derivatives thereof, is strictly prohibited. Our client would like to resolve this matter amicably and has asked that we contact you to confirm that you will cease using any names or marks that infringe upon the AIM Mark. We also ask that you contact us to discuss the possible copyright issues set forth above. We hope you appreciate AOL's interest in protecting its valuable intellectual property and we ask that you respond to this letter by June 29, 2001. We look forward to hearing from you and hope to resolve this matter promptly.
(ps. i submitted this last week. little (rejected) after it, thanks/. boys!) ------------
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I develop jaim (now JAM) at http://aerob.net/jam/ and I just caved to AOL and changed the name. I don't have time to fight them or anything, and I think the software is more important than the name. (even so, the jam page isn't even fully updated yet) ------------
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actually, i have used Mozilla 0.9, and some of the latest nightlies. i'm not an idiot, and i don't really care which browser i use, just the best one. so i can say that i have no bias whatsoever when i say mozilla is as _of right now_ an inferior browser compared to MSIE. if the mozilla developers would work more on the browser and less on stupid glitz that seems to impress the same kind of people that desktop themes impress, mozilla would be a much better browser than MSIE.
also:
>>does not have major parts of the browser written in java script
>Just the UI.
isn't it bad enough that the UI is written in JAVASCRIPT!? am i the only one that is bothered by this? the UI is one of the most important parts of the browser, and they wrote it in a slow language.
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go ahead and moderate this down, and i'm sure there's a million people that will swear to their dying day that mozilla kicks any browser's ass, but the latest version of MSIE does not crash, is stable, stable, stable, does not waste resources with stupid themable interface, does not have major parts of the browser written in java script, does not require 128 megs of ram to run and also does not include stupidity such as AIM clients and IRC clients. if I was AOL, i would have included MSIE too. at some point mozilla may become a better browser, but right now it is not. it is behind. you can either moderate me down and ignore the truth, or you can stop reading slashdot all day, learn some c/c++ and help out the mozilla.org crew. god knows they need it. ------------
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never laughed so hard in my life.
and it's true, too. ------------
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Re:hillarious interview with Steve Jobs about OS X
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NeXT was, in fact, so successful that they went out of business a few years back. ------------
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+1 insightful. this same thing bothers me all the time. ------------
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very true. i can tell by your low, low userid that you've been here a while. you truly are too elite for slashdot. ------------
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Quality Slashdot Articles
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Apparently basic facts now count as Slashdot articles.
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my userid is lower than jamie's, so i think i deserve to be an editor now. ------------
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check out the date on the article: Friday 19 January 19101
can you say y2k+1 problem? i can
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Since Athlons use the Alpha bus, does the recent purchase of the Alpha line of processors by Intel affect AMD at all? (ie. Intel now owns the Athlon core)
Just wondering if anyone knew.
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Perl is actually a very logical language to use to teach beginners. Start out gradual, like:
$a = "hello world\n";
print "$a";
From there, even the casual beginner can progress to (code excerpt taken from slashcode):
($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[P.]/&&
close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep rand(2)if/\S/;print
As you can see, the syntax is non-threatning even to the most novice of programmers and is very intuitive.
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you silly fuck. they used the word "mecha", not "robot". go fuck yourself.
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I hear the /. crew employs quite a few gerbils in secret activities.
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It must have captured it while I was sleeping. Do yourself a favor. Go to a local high school, pick a random class. Walk in, and go "raise your hand if you know what Linux is." If the majority raise their hands then you are right. Otherwise, you are mistaken. Linux has NOT captured the minds of the 12-21 year old males, or else we would see the majority of games written for Linux, instead of for Windows.
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With a targeted platform of the X-BOX, I wonder if it would be possible for the WINE team to get FF running under WINE. If so, this would be another feather in Linux's cap such as Quake 3, Civ, HOMM, etc. For Linux to truly be accepted on the desktop, it needs to gain marketshare with 12-21 year old males, which is the proven target audience to market PC's to. (I should know, I'm a marketing major.) Games are a major way to earn mindshare, and for Linux to be truly successful, it must have games that can compete with Windows, PS2, etc.
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see, bitching and complaining really DOES work
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On some enterprise systems, the administrator has the option to have passwords checked against a dictionary for common words, palindromes or other easily guessed passwords. If you are interested in such "smart" password software, check out npasswd at: http://www.utexas.edu/cc/unix/software/npasswd/
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If you honestly think that USENET is/was more important than the WWW, I think you are sadly wrong. The WWW has made Grandma and Grampa and Mom and Pop go on the Internet. I don't remember any kind of surge to the Internet in 1979 when USENET started. I bet almost anyone would agree that the WWW had much more of an impact that USENET.
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Actually, I would say that the two packages are functionally equivalent, since the "cross pollination of ideas" was more than evident in this case. So, both Debian and Mandrakesoft can be commended in their creation of two very nice software management system. Most people would say that apt-get is the equivalent to the "install-anywhere" program so prevalent in Windows. Development of easy installation programs such as these help improve Linux's acceptance in the IS world today.
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A good factor in Linux acceptance has been Linus' conformance to the POSIX spec regarding Pthreads. It would be very beneficial if IBM were to stick to the spec exactly, thus making it easy to port large systems from AIX and Solaris, thereby increasing Linux marketshare. It is good to see a large corporation like IBM actually helping in Open Source development and actively contributing time and money to the Linux kernel development efforts.
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Recently, many Unix vendors are jumping shift and changing their focus to Linux, such as Compaq, who recently sold Alpha to Intel. It is obvious that Compaq will stop selling Tru64 and OpenVMS and roll Tru64 features into Linux for a value added package. I have also heard from an inside source at HP that HP-UX is not long for this world. The HP engineers are quickly looking for parts of HP-UX that can be added to Linux 2.4. So, watch for many, many old Unix vendors to be making the shift to Linux soon. Even good old IBM has a finger in the pie!
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right, except GAIM wasn't the only one that got the letter. I develop the program formely known as jaim and I got it too.
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June 18, 2001
/. boys!)
VIA E-MAIL
Joshua Harding
vaxgeek
RE: Notice of Infringement
Dear Mr. Harding:
We represent America Online, Inc. (AOL), with respect to its intellectual property matters. Our client is the owner of federal Registration Nos. 2,423,368 and 2,423,367 for its mark AIM (hereinafter, the AIM Mark) and operates the most widely-used interactive online service in the world. Our client has made extensive use of its AIM Mark in interstate and international commerce in connection with the advertising, promotion, and sale of its Internet and computer-related goods and services. Due to our clients widespread use, advertising, and extensive marketing, its AIM Mark has become very famous and many consumers recognize the mark as a distinctive symbol of our clients goodwill. Our client also uses the mark AIM.COM in connection with providing information via computer networks. As a result, consumers associate the mark AIM, when used in a software name or internet related service, with our clients high quality products and services. It has come to our attention that you are distributing an online communication software product using the AIM Mark at several web sites. Our client is concerned that your unauthorized use of its famous AIM Mark in this manner is likely to confuse consumers and, in addition, dilutes the distinctive qualities of the AIM Mark. We assume you similarly do not wish to mislead consumers and we request that you discontinue use of any name(s) that incorporate our client's marks, or marks confusingly similar to them. Additionally, the proprietary software used to operate the AIM service is owned solely by AOL and unauthorized distribution of our client's software, or derivatives thereof, is strictly prohibited. Our client would like to resolve this matter amicably and has asked that we contact you to confirm that you will cease using any names or marks that infringe upon the AIM Mark. We also ask that you contact us to discuss the possible copyright issues set forth above. We hope you appreciate AOL's interest in protecting its valuable intellectual property and we ask that you respond to this letter by June 29, 2001. We look forward to hearing from you and hope to resolve this matter promptly.
James R. Davis, II
202/857-6169
davisr@arentfox.com
Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC
1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036-5339
Phone 202/857-6000
Fax 202/857-6395
www.arentfox.com
(ps. i submitted this last week. little (rejected) after it, thanks
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I develop jaim (now JAM) at http://aerob.net/jam/ and I just caved to AOL and changed the name. I don't have time to fight them or anything, and I think the software is more important than the name. (even so, the jam page isn't even fully updated yet)
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if there's no more alpha, what about OpenVMS?
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actually, i have used Mozilla 0.9, and some of the latest nightlies. i'm not an idiot, and i don't really care which browser i use, just the best one. so i can say that i have no bias whatsoever when i say mozilla is as _of right now_ an inferior browser compared to MSIE. if the mozilla developers would work more on the browser and less on stupid glitz that seems to impress the same kind of people that desktop themes impress, mozilla would be a much better browser than MSIE.
also:
>>does not have major parts of the browser written in java script
>Just the UI.
isn't it bad enough that the UI is written in JAVASCRIPT!? am i the only one that is bothered by this? the UI is one of the most important parts of the browser, and they wrote it in a slow language.
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go ahead and moderate this down, and i'm sure there's a million people that will swear to their dying day that mozilla kicks any browser's ass, but the latest version of MSIE does not crash, is stable, stable, stable, does not waste resources with stupid themable interface, does not have major parts of the browser written in java script, does not require 128 megs of ram to run and also does not include stupidity such as AIM clients and IRC clients. if I was AOL, i would have included MSIE too. at some point mozilla may become a better browser, but right now it is not. it is behind. you can either moderate me down and ignore the truth, or you can stop reading slashdot all day, learn some c/c++ and help out the mozilla.org crew. god knows they need it.
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never laughed so hard in my life.
and it's true, too.
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NeXT was, in fact, so successful that they went out of business a few years back.
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+1 insightful. this same thing bothers me all the time.
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very true. i can tell by your low, low userid that you've been here a while. you truly are too elite for slashdot.
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A wrench is a fine tool.
Eating paste is not a good idea.
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my userid is lower than jamie's, so i think i deserve to be an editor now.
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check out the date on the article: Friday 19 January 19101
can you say y2k+1 problem? i can
hahaha
actually, i can't.
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