My question is, why would the Enterprise be built out of steel? AFAIK they havn't used steel in airplane construction since WWII. Who knows what space ships would be made out of in three hundred years but I bet that it would not be steel. Wouldn't it be made out of some light-weight alloy or composite material that wouldn't be magnetic?
Have you installed the mozilla-psm package yet? All the encryption goodness is kept in that package now. I do all my banking through the web using Mozilla 0.9.7 with no problem at all. So far I havn't found a secure site that bothers it.
It seems appropriate that Lee is in a Star Wars movie since he did so many movies with Peter Cushing who most people know from Episode IV as Gov. Tarkin. I wonder if Tarkin's charactor shows up in the prequels?
I learned to program on an HP2000 in high school in BASIC. I still have a paper tape of a tic-tak-toe program that I wrote for that class. I'd love to see what my coding looked like twenty years ago but I have no idea where I'd find a paper-tape reader(well probably ebay).
The code in question was only up for a day or so, they changed it when so many negative news stories came out. I can personally conferm that it didn't work with Mozilla 0.9.5 or Konqueror for that day. MS really has a knack for creating bad publicity, you'd think that they'd work on that.
If you are using GNOME or KDE, you pretty much never have to use a commandline for anything. I havn't used GNOME in a year or so but KDE's konquerer is a very able file manager (and browser and ftp client, and etc). I personally use the shell for most file management but that's just personal taste, I use ksh when I'm using MS-Windows also. I think that most people who are used to MS-Windows would be able to work with a Linux system running KDE with too much pain.
I've found that Konquerer will work with almost any site that is supposed to only work with IE and/or Netscape. My bank (PNC) has code that checks what browser you are running and refused to let you in if its not IE4 or NS4.5 or better. I had to go into settings and setup a user agent that make Konquerer pretend to be IE5.5 running on Win98 and things "just work"!
There is actually a lot of Linux within IBM, we like it, use it, develop on it, etc. I'm writting this in konqueror right now on a NetVista running Redhat 7.1 on my desktop. I work with a lot of people who are very enthusiastic about Linux. And yes it is a PR move too but don't you think that having the largest computer company in the world support Linux it pretty positive PR for Linux?
I had the problem that Medusa filled up my/var directory with hundreds of Megs of log, and thus my / partition. This caused X not to start anymore as it need space in/var. I ended up getting rid of Nautilaus, it wasn't very useful anyway.
I'm assuming that they use some sort of reletive definition of "break even". Maybe it's +/-5% of revenues or something like that? Six Hundred Grand is around two percent of their revenue for the forth Quarter of 27M, that seems to pretty close to break even to me.
BTW, where do you live? I could buy six or seven nice houses here for $600K.
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The popular computing press doesn't ever seem to get this issue either. They are always confusing desktops and window managers and calling Gnome the Linux Desktop appearently not understanding that it will run on BSD, Solaris, etc.
Apple and Microsoft have spent the last fifteen years trying to convince people that an OS is a giant monolithic entity and shouldn't be altered by the consumer. I mean if MS wants people to belive that a browser or a music/video app is actually a part of the OS what chance do you have telling people that the GUI is not the OS. If you think about it, any *nix is even more layered than you said, more like OS+Libs+Apps+Xserver+Toolkit+WindowMgr+Desktop with all of those components developed independently.
They talk about this "feature" in the article and about how it seldom seems to work right. As I remember, I had to disable this embedded time sync thing on my Dad's VCR last year so that I could set the time manually since it didn't work automatically.
I'm posting this using Nautilus 1.0 right now and I have to say that I'm very impressed. I knew that it would have nice eye candy and such but I'm really supprised at how fast it is. I do have a fairly fast machine (600MHz Athlon, 256M RAM) but I still figured that Nautilus would be slugish but I'm happily corrected. It's only been a few minutes of use but I think that I will use this thing all the time. Now if eazel could figure out how to make $ from it...
I agree, this can only be bad for microsoft. They have based their whole corporate stratagy on market share and actually have benefitted from a certain leve of piracy. Each time someone pirated a copy in the past from a friend they contributed to the demise of OS/2 and MACOS and the rise of windows. Sure they didn't pay for Windows but they still supported the platform by buying other software that only worked on Windows.
I guess that they (MS) think that they've got everone hooked now and that they can safely tighten things and collect their money now.
This just seems like a perfect oportunity for GNU/Linux to start building market share. As it gets harder to get Windows it will get easier to chose Linux. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of years.
I realize that the./ tradition is to comment without actually reading the subject article but I'd like to read this and boy are those fonts tiny in Netscape.
If you read the Loki forums about SMAC a company developer says that the game is finished, and has been for six months, but that they are having "packaging problems." They've used that phrase for six months without actually explaining what they mean exept to say that lawyers are involved.
This brings up another issue, I just gave up and bought SMAC for Windows for $10US at Office Depot while the Linux version is still priced at $50.00. Games have such a short shelf life that by the time Loki gets them ported the Windows version is already in the bargin bins.
Yea, my bank, Wingspan, gives me a "connection refused" error when I try to log in using Mozilla 0.7. I should download Netsape 6.1 to see if I can log in using that. I've noticed that ebay wouldn't load for the longest time with Mozilla or Netscape 6 but they seem to have fixed that now.
They could incorporate the ads right into the game: billboards, placards, skywriting, or maybe unkillable salesbots that would show and try to sell you stuff in the middle of the game?
I'm not contradicting what you say but maybe turning it into a question. Is there a way to design an online game Server/Client protocol that prevents cheating? Or is the only answer, "security through obscurity?" The VPN client that I use to connect to my work runs a check to see if it has been modified before it runs. Is there anyway to design a system so that a server can reliably check whether a client has been modified or not. I guess that my question is relevent even if the source is closed since people can and have modifed binary clients. Any ideas anyone?
>Although it saddens me that his code made it into >the kernel, because of his behaviour, at least I >won't have to read any more of his bitching.
So you feel that the world should be deprived of potentially very useful code just because you don't like its author's personality? I'm not defending Mr Reiser's behavior, but don't you think that the code should speak for itself? I have no idea what he is like as a person and I don't really care as long as he writes good code.
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I guess that the obvious thing to say would be, OK if its so easy, have you done it? But a more useful thing to point out is that packaging is one of the harder things to do in Software Development. I work in software testing of enterprise middleware and really a big percentage of bugs come from packaging mistakes and 3rd party compatability and not in coding mistakes. Think about all the issues with compilers, interpreters, virtual machines, orbs, etc. that seem to change daily. And then think about getting ever last little header file and config file in the right place and at the right version. And then for an OS think about hardware support; multiply the number of CPU types, motherboard chipsets, BIOSs, bus types, sound cards, video cards, network cards, protocals, CDRs, Tape Drives, etc, together and you get a huge number of combinations.
Yes I'm sure it's easier to come up with an OS when you start with such a well designed system as Debian espesially because it has the deb/apt package system but I can't see how you whould think that that was a trivial project. And I havn't even gotten to the subject of Support, even if you do throw out your own distribution are you going to support it and fix bugs and solve customers problems with it?
I'm running Stormix right now, which I like a lot but if I can't get updates to the Storm specific packages I guess that I'm sort of stuck. I can apt-get upgrade the debian packages but if the Storm packages don't get updated they'll start breaking after a while I assume. I have to say I was pretty impressed with Storm Linux as it added the things that debian was/is missing like a good installer/gui package manager/gui admin tools etc.
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My question is, why would the Enterprise be built out of steel? AFAIK they havn't used steel in airplane construction since WWII. Who knows what space ships would be made out of in three hundred years but I bet that it would not be steel. Wouldn't it be made out of some light-weight alloy or composite material that wouldn't be magnetic?
Have you installed the mozilla-psm package yet? All the encryption goodness is kept in that package now. I do all my banking through the web using Mozilla 0.9.7 with no problem at all. So far I havn't found a secure site that bothers it.
It seems appropriate that Lee is in a Star Wars movie since he did so many movies with Peter Cushing who most people know from Episode IV as Gov. Tarkin. I wonder if Tarkin's charactor shows up in the prequels?
I learned to program on an HP2000 in high school in BASIC. I still have a paper tape of a tic-tak-toe program that I wrote for that class. I'd love to see what my coding looked like twenty years ago but I have no idea where I'd find a paper-tape reader(well probably ebay).
The code in question was only up for a day or so, they changed it when so many negative news stories came out. I can personally conferm that it didn't work with Mozilla 0.9.5 or Konqueror for that day. MS really has a knack for creating bad publicity, you'd think that they'd work on that.
If you are using GNOME or KDE, you pretty much never have to use a commandline for anything. I havn't used GNOME in a year or so but KDE's konquerer is a very able file manager (and browser and ftp client, and etc). I personally use the shell for most file management but that's just personal taste, I use ksh when I'm using MS-Windows also. I think that most people who are used to MS-Windows would be able to work with a Linux system running KDE with too much pain.
I've found that Konquerer will work with almost any site that is supposed to only work with IE and/or Netscape. My bank (PNC) has code that checks what browser you are running and refused to let you in if its not IE4 or NS4.5 or better. I had to go into settings and setup a user agent that make Konquerer pretend to be IE5.5 running on Win98 and things "just work"!
Did you notice the stuffed TUX the penguin doll sitting on his desk?
There is actually a lot of Linux within IBM, we like it, use it, develop on it, etc. I'm writting this in konqueror right now on a NetVista running Redhat 7.1 on my desktop. I work with a lot of people who are very enthusiastic about Linux. And yes it is a PR move too but don't you think that having the largest computer company in the world support Linux it pretty positive PR for Linux?
ShockwaveAdam seems to be closing the doors. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092 019,00.html.
What am I missing?
-That the interview is from the 25th aniversory of 2001, that is eight years ago.
I had the problem that Medusa filled up my /var directory with hundreds of Megs of log, and thus my / partition. This caused X not to start anymore as it need space in /var. I ended up getting rid of Nautilaus, it wasn't very useful anyway.
I'm assuming that they use some sort of reletive definition of "break even". Maybe it's +/-5% of revenues or something like that? Six Hundred Grand is around two percent of their revenue for the forth Quarter of 27M, that seems to pretty close to break even to me.
BTW, where do you live? I could buy six or seven nice houses here for $600K.
The popular computing press doesn't ever seem to get this issue either. They are always confusing desktops and window managers and calling Gnome the Linux Desktop appearently not understanding that it will run on BSD, Solaris, etc.
Apple and Microsoft have spent the last fifteen years trying to convince people that an OS is a giant monolithic entity and shouldn't be altered by the consumer. I mean if MS wants people to belive that a browser or a music/video app is actually a part of the OS what chance do you have telling people that the GUI is not the OS. If you think about it, any *nix is even more layered than you said, more like OS+Libs+Apps+Xserver+Toolkit+WindowMgr+Desktop with all of those components developed independently.
They talk about this "feature" in the article and about how it seldom seems to work right. As I remember, I had to disable this embedded time sync thing on my Dad's VCR last year so that I could set the time manually since it didn't work automatically.
I'm posting this using Nautilus 1.0 right now and I have to say that I'm very impressed. I knew that it would have nice eye candy and such but I'm really supprised at how fast it is. I do have a fairly fast machine (600MHz Athlon, 256M RAM) but I still figured that Nautilus would be slugish but I'm happily corrected. It's only been a few minutes of use but I think that I will use this thing all the time. Now if eazel could figure out how to make $ from it...
I agree, this can only be bad for microsoft. They have based their whole corporate stratagy on market share and actually have benefitted from a certain leve of piracy. Each time someone pirated a copy in the past from a friend they contributed to the demise of OS/2 and MACOS and the rise of windows. Sure they didn't pay for Windows but they still supported the platform by buying other software that only worked on Windows.
I guess that they (MS) think that they've got everone hooked now and that they can safely tighten things and collect their money now.
This just seems like a perfect oportunity for GNU/Linux to start building market share. As it gets harder to get Windows it will get easier to chose Linux. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of years.
I realize that the ./ tradition is to comment without actually reading the subject article but I'd like to read this and boy are those fonts tiny in Netscape.
If you read the Loki forums about SMAC a company developer says that the game is finished, and has been for six months, but that they are having "packaging problems." They've used that phrase for six months without actually explaining what they mean exept to say that lawyers are involved.
This brings up another issue, I just gave up and bought SMAC for Windows for $10US at Office Depot while the Linux version is still priced at $50.00. Games have such a short shelf life that by the time Loki gets them ported the Windows version is already in the bargin bins.
Yea, my bank, Wingspan, gives me a "connection refused" error when I try to log in using Mozilla 0.7. I should download Netsape 6.1 to see if I can log in using that. I've noticed that ebay wouldn't load for the longest time with Mozilla or Netscape 6 but they seem to have fixed that now.
They could incorporate the ads right into the game: billboards, placards, skywriting, or maybe unkillable salesbots that would show and try to sell you stuff in the middle of the game?
I'm not contradicting what you say but maybe turning it into a question. Is there a way to design an online game Server/Client protocol that prevents cheating? Or is the only answer, "security through obscurity?" The VPN client that I use to connect to my work runs a check to see if it has been modified before it runs. Is there anyway to design a system so that a server can reliably check whether a client has been modified or not. I guess that my question is relevent even if the source is closed since people can and have modifed binary clients. Any ideas anyone?
>Although it saddens me that his code made it into >the kernel, because of his behaviour, at least I >won't have to read any more of his bitching.
So you feel that the world should be deprived of potentially very useful code just because you don't like its author's personality? I'm not defending Mr Reiser's behavior, but don't you think that the code should speak for itself? I have no idea what he is like as a person and I don't really care as long as he writes good code.
I guess that the obvious thing to say would be, OK if its so easy, have you done it? But a more useful thing to point out is that packaging is one of the harder things to do in Software Development. I work in software testing of enterprise middleware and really a big percentage of bugs come from packaging mistakes and 3rd party compatability and not in coding mistakes. Think about all the issues with compilers, interpreters, virtual machines, orbs, etc. that seem to change daily. And then think about getting ever last little header file and config file in the right place and at the right version. And then for an OS think about hardware support; multiply the number of CPU types, motherboard chipsets, BIOSs, bus types, sound cards, video cards, network cards, protocals, CDRs, Tape Drives, etc, together and you get a huge number of combinations.
Yes I'm sure it's easier to come up with an OS when you start with such a well designed system as Debian espesially because it has the deb/apt package system but I can't see how you whould think that that was a trivial project. And I havn't even gotten to the subject of Support, even if you do throw out your own distribution are you going to support it and fix bugs and solve customers problems with it?
I'm running Stormix right now, which I like a lot but if I can't get updates to the Storm specific packages I guess that I'm sort of stuck. I can apt-get upgrade the debian packages but if the Storm packages don't get updated they'll start breaking after a while I assume. I have to say I was pretty impressed with Storm Linux as it added the things that debian was/is missing like a good installer/gui package manager/gui admin tools etc.