Novell(Suse), UserLinux, RedHat, and god knows who else have all voiced their support for Gnome. I may like KDE but they've done nothing to become accepted in the standard and of course they have something about royalties which companies will not pay. Explains why most if not all have gone with Gnome.
IMO the telco's and cable providers are probably more worried about this than anyone and they've probably filled FEMA up with all kinds of bull about what it might do to fema's spectrum.
Of course the FCC should test anything and give it a license which means it cant interfere with anyone elses equipment and FEMA's equipment is supposed to accept any interference. Either way this story is moot and FEMA needs to get their own experts that are not paid by the opposition to formulate their own studies and opinions on the matter.
I've heard that Apple runs a x86 version that's parrallel to the current releases just in case they were to switch platforms someday. I would definately pay for OSX but I want to use my normal hardware. And I think Apple could even sell it and driver manufacturers would support it. ATI would have little trouble supporting the rest of their cards and many of them are mac compatible already.
APPLE Please get a clue you could tromp all over MS any day with our OS!!!
Example is the home theater systems. For many, systems such as the Sony Dream system works great for them while others like me who are audio/videophiles tend to preferr the component setup with our seperate players, amps, and other equipment.
PC Games have pushed the development of the PC more than business computing or anything else. To turn that into a Xbox takes away from the PC where hardware makers would have to detract from the PC side to meet the demands of the console gaming side. However this may change with the adoption of high resolution TV's the demand for console systems to have PC equivalent grapics performance will begin to go through the roof. It may lead to a exodus to the PC for those in search of better gaming expericene, or you get a different group of console systems with varying prices.. such as a Xbox and a Xbox Hidef version.
One of the more annoying things however is the lack of intergration (IMO the way to go) of your home electronics. I should be able to intergrate my computer systems with my entertainment systems and vice versa which is yet to happen. I'd love to have a TiVO that would use my home SAN to save the movies on rather than on it's puny 40 gig drive.
I want my music wherever and whenever which today is still impossible due to the outbound bandwidth restrictions of my DSL lines and very few companies offer upstream bandwidth past the 128k for less than a arm and a leg. I know this was to stem the abuse of the networks but in reality that's less of a concern today than 3 years ago when the networks were relatively new.
Either way there may be a all in one device but many times unless the parts are user serviceable and replaceable for a fraction of the unit cost and upgradable they're all doomed to eventual failure.
LOL the Phantom is supposed to be upgradeable in that aspect that it (if ever released) would be preferred by hard core console gamers over their out of date xbox or PS2's.
Look in 1xRTT ie the current 3g offerings by Verizon Wireless and Sprint we use 1.25Mhz of bandwidth and we can push 155kbps.. I even think our EVDO pushes that envelope further.. so I'd think you could do more on 7Mhz of frequency
Over at Warcry.com we've strived to become what those networks were prior to the ads.. We may have sky's and banner ad's but they're hardly intrusive to your reading and what's more important is that those of us that work on the sites are gamers themselves on our own free time.
I think the benefits of a few bugs outweigh the problems they may cause. If I can save 5 million dollars in a server deployment and there's a slight risk of a crash but my data is safe then I'll run that risk.
However some companies are still running RH 7.2 so there will be those who stick with the 2.4 kernel as long as they can. This will more likely be the groups that are unable to move their software from 2.4 to 2.6 due to how they built their systems possibly.
Even with current blocking tech many websites may benefit from this with a increase of revenue if they can prove their ad penetration is better than a TiVo's.
Sure those 20 people may make something better.. but do they have the buying power of 10,000 people? Each time we have a business that does it better with fewer people you tighten the job fields and increase the strain on the markets.
What do we do when everyone's been replaced by a robot but they dont have money to spend on anything.
Capitialism is a symbiant circle if you dont keep it in balance with money flowing through the circle you get chaos.
A computer could easily do my job but then instead of me pumping nearly 22k into my local economy on things I buy thoughout the year into a burden of 1200 dollars per month in unemployment. Coupled with food stamps and whatever other public assistance I could muster I could actually drain more out of the local area then I was putting in.
And I make nearly 55k a year.
Not that all of those 10k people were getting paid that much but most times people can put equal drains on public assistance reguardless of how much they made before. Either way it's better for something to be crappy and people to be employeed than have a superior product and put thousands out of business. If they're not paying taxes then you're paying it for them.
I think it's silly how Intel is now embracing a trend to include features already provided by another market. This is the same situation that MS caused by intergrating IE into the system. So now people will quit buying wireless AP's and routers becuase it came with the motherboard.
Intel will probalby do this witout adding more than 20 employees and in turn drive about 10,000 people out of jobs due to their companies going out of business.
Sorry guys but were going to get your broadband reduced to nillband and up your fees becuase some of you have been downloading music.. Of course we cant prove who was doing it so were going to punish everyone.
Dont you love mass punishment.
Same crap happened here... ISP's claim it was to stop the few from hogging all the bandwidth but it was really the RIAA/MPAA demanding they lower our broadband speeds to help curb the speeds we were downloading music. My RoadRunner before the capping frenzy ran around 3.5mbit down 1.8Mbit up.. now you can only get 768/128 verizon and SBC is worse 384/128 for the standard fee..
Now I wish I could get Speakeasy DSL at least for a similar price I could get2+mbit up and down but my phone company has a monopoly on the phone lines.
Base station density increases will cost them billions in network expansion costs.. Most Lucent upgrades just require a few changes to a base station which saves companies money.
WCDMA you'll have to have the extra base stations but at the same time you'll be using several base stations to maintain a acceptable signal therefore increasing bandwidth costs on each of those basestations. Nobody's piping DS3's to cell towers yet so you're really using more resources per cell than if you developed something that would work with the current system.
AT&T 100-130 Max 200 Kbps avail to 215 Million Customers.
Sprint 50-70 Max 144 Kbps avail to 230 Million Customers.
Verizon Wireless 60-80 Max 144 avail to 230 Million Customers.
Verizon Wireless' NationalAccess has average speeds of 60 - 80 kbps, peaks at 144 kbps and is available to nearly 230 million. BroadbandAccess,
Verizon Wireless's faster EVDO service at 300 - 500 kbps on average (2 Mb peak), is offered in the San Diego and Washington D.C. markets.
EDGE makes its debut after nearly two years' delay due to technology issues. With no evolution path, EDGE is seen as a stop gap before AT&T has to invest in yet another technology like WCDMA. In addition, EDGE does not improve voice capacity and due to deteriorating data speeds over great distances from the base station, requires greater base station density thus adding to AT&T network costs.
Neither Sprint or At&T wireless is in position to provide any broadband services past their initial offerings. Vzw will be expanding the market for EVDO in 2004 to other major cities (I hope Dallas) Also sprint and verizon's speeds are slower due to technology limits with the initial offerings but compared to CDPD which was most times at best 14.4 speeds it's a leap ahead. I would expect to see 10-100Mbit wireless within the next 5 years in larger cities to compete with landline DSL and Cable which both have limits well under 40Mbit.
We'll it appears that projections in the late 90's of the market being over x millions of players have yet to pan out. The current giants are not even US built games but ones from more broadband developed countries such as South Korea and Japan.
Once again we lag the world in broadband access where other countries are well over 60% of the population. We will continue to see this trend and the smaller games will fall off.
Even a giant such as Turbine Games is having trouble resurrecting Asheron's Call 2 from the ultimate screwup MS made of it.
WoW is following the right path. "When we are ready" and if they bone up to the claim of "More content than ACv1 today at launch" then EQ/AC2/AC/Horizons better look to their features and subscriber counts.
They'll concentrate any efforts towards the corporate enviroment. Which means other things past spreadsheets and email will probably be neglected. They refuse to realise that targeting all aspects of PC usage is necessary to unseat the giant in Redmond.
Parents will not use Linux if the latest and greatest game cant run on it. Never mind the Xbox becuase console systems have proven they're not good enough yet to unseat the PC as the best gameing system for your money.
This is all based on what I hear, as in any case actions speak louder than words so I await to hear what really happens later down the road.
Here's to UserLinux!
A wise man once said. Say hi to the new boss. Same as the old boss.
It's time for the people to stand up and use technology to deal with the problem.
And maybe it's high time we all demanded a law that prevents our politicans from getting any money from businesses or orginazations.. We pay them enough already it's time they represent us not those who fund their campaigns!
IronPort is reported as stating that the SpamCop blocklist data will remain freely available to the public.
We just redid our email services and started using Spamcop our first RBL use ever and I'm extremely happy that it's blocking 99% of the mass spammers that have hit us for so long. After seeing the logs I was amazed that we get so much. I'll hold of on donations to spamcop until I know my money will be going towards supporting a free RBL service.
Has anyone checked this out? http://www.two-degrees.com I tried it on a download yesterday of 50 megs and 1 second after starting up I was connected to 7 hosts at full download speed. Torrents have never done that for me ever no matter what network I was downloading from.
The average Linux consumer would happily bone up 25 dollars to get RH workstation I'm sure. But at 179 per desktop that still makes Windows just as attractive.
"We will conform to the best compatible set of HTML for IE and support other browsers secondly. I dont care if it's a standard 98% of our visitors use IE and that's what we will focus on."
Tell me that wouldnt be the case if IE was still just a download.
What's even more sick is I cant for the life of me remember what I surfed the web with before IE. IE Install Win 3.11 where did I get Netscape from:)
Probably was the ISP software CD's that was the usual method for the longest time.
I was never against IE back in the day when you had to download it. But when I saw what bundling your own software with your own OS does to other companies it's bad. Those companies employeed coders, VIP's, Janitors, secretaries. I'm sure there was room for both browsers but now there's just IE..
Just assuming MS kept up everything I'm sure they'd shut down more companies. Like RAV antivirus which supported Linux mail servers. MS buys them and will bundle a AV solution with Windows so what's Norton, Pcillin, or Mcafee going to do to compete. 90% of consumers will not go for something else if they already have something that does the job.
Most replies about getting someone to quit using Outlook Express is why? It works fine and came with it. Even the fact that the other software is free they are reluctant to move becuase this came with the system.
Windows just like DOS is a Operating System OS. That's all it should do. Provide a platform to run ANY program you wish to run on it.
Required programs should consist of basic grapics and network drivers that are compatible with almost everything. Some generic browser that's not intergrated into the entire system to allow one to select their own browser.
Then it can also provide links to obtain optimized drivers from each vendor that your PC runs from. Or download them itself and install as necessary.
Either way. Internet Explorer and WMP through licensing and other agreements have become vital and critical portions of other systems. There are whole groups of banks who will not allow you to conduct transactions from any other browser other than IE and there are tons of media houses that will not let you access it without IE AND WMP.
Of course some would argue that some sites are RA and Quicktime only. So I'd say force them to allow others to view their encoded content also and let them focus on the encoding part not the consumer part.
These are the same tactics being employed by many companies such as a printer shop that has elevated USB cables becuase the printer company does not include a USB cable most times. Or Local Number Portability. Think you're using that GSM phone on a CDMA network?
When was the last time you used a standard set of tools on your car or truck without having to have some special star socket to finish the job.
You can all whine and point the finger at MS but these issues surround your daily life. How bad does it have to get before you stand up and tell your politicans were tired of it. I sure hope it's not to the point where you cant use X toilet paper with Y toilet without it refusing to flush.
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Novell(Suse), UserLinux, RedHat, and god knows who else have all voiced their support for Gnome. I may like KDE but they've done nothing to become accepted in the standard and of course they have something about royalties which companies will not pay. Explains why most if not all have gone with Gnome.
IMO the telco's and cable providers are probably more worried about this than anyone and they've probably filled FEMA up with all kinds of bull about what it might do to fema's spectrum.
Of course the FCC should test anything and give it a license which means it cant interfere with anyone elses equipment and FEMA's equipment is supposed to accept any interference. Either way this story is moot and FEMA needs to get their own experts that are not paid by the opposition to formulate their own studies and opinions on the matter.
I've heard that Apple runs a x86 version that's parrallel to the current releases just in case they were to switch platforms someday. I would definately pay for OSX but I want to use my normal hardware. And I think Apple could even sell it and driver manufacturers would support it. ATI would have little trouble supporting the rest of their cards and many of them are mac compatible already.
APPLE Please get a clue you could tromp all over MS any day with our OS!!!
Example is the home theater systems. For many, systems such as the Sony Dream system works great for them while others like me who are audio/videophiles tend to preferr the component setup with our seperate players, amps, and other equipment.
PC Games have pushed the development of the PC more than business computing or anything else. To turn that into a Xbox takes away from the PC where hardware makers would have to detract from the PC side to meet the demands of the console gaming side. However this may change with the adoption of high resolution TV's the demand for console systems to have PC equivalent grapics performance will begin to go through the roof. It may lead to a exodus to the PC for those in search of better gaming expericene, or you get a different group of console systems with varying prices.. such as a Xbox and a Xbox Hidef version.
One of the more annoying things however is the lack of intergration (IMO the way to go) of your home electronics. I should be able to intergrate my computer systems with my entertainment systems and vice versa which is yet to happen. I'd love to have a TiVO that would use my home SAN to save the movies on rather than on it's puny 40 gig drive.
I want my music wherever and whenever which today is still impossible due to the outbound bandwidth restrictions of my DSL lines and very few companies offer upstream bandwidth past the 128k for less than a arm and a leg. I know this was to stem the abuse of the networks but in reality that's less of a concern today than 3 years ago when the networks were relatively new.
Either way there may be a all in one device but many times unless the parts are user serviceable and replaceable for a fraction of the unit cost and upgradable they're all doomed to eventual failure.
LOL the Phantom is supposed to be upgradeable in that aspect that it (if ever released) would be preferred by hard core console gamers over their out of date xbox or PS2's.
Look in 1xRTT ie the current 3g offerings by Verizon Wireless and Sprint we use 1.25Mhz of bandwidth and we can push 155kbps.. I even think our EVDO pushes that envelope further.. so I'd think you could do more on 7Mhz of frequency
Over at Warcry.com we've strived to become what those networks were prior to the ads.. We may have sky's and banner ad's but they're hardly intrusive to your reading and what's more important is that those of us that work on the sites are gamers themselves on our own free time.
I think the benefits of a few bugs outweigh the problems they may cause. If I can save 5 million dollars in a server deployment and there's a slight risk of a crash but my data is safe then I'll run that risk.
However some companies are still running RH 7.2 so there will be those who stick with the 2.4 kernel as long as they can. This will more likely be the groups that are unable to move their software from 2.4 to 2.6 due to how they built their systems possibly.
One reply to a chainletter will get you shut down.
Damn evil chainletters!
Even with current blocking tech many websites may benefit from this with a increase of revenue if they can prove their ad penetration is better than a TiVo's.
More creepy..
Tossed in my hometown zip code.. dude I went to high school with who I'd never thought would do something like this was convicted of 2nd degree rape.
Gee thanks.. now I know there's a sex offender 2 buildings away from me.
Course it does not say what he did and it was 2 weeks ago it was entered.
Wife wont be happy. Guess were moving.
Sure those 20 people may make something better.. but do they have the buying power of 10,000 people? Each time we have a business that does it better with fewer people you tighten the job fields and increase the strain on the markets.
What do we do when everyone's been replaced by a robot but they dont have money to spend on anything.
Capitialism is a symbiant circle if you dont keep it in balance with money flowing through the circle you get chaos.
A computer could easily do my job but then instead of me pumping nearly 22k into my local economy on things I buy thoughout the year into a burden of 1200 dollars per month in unemployment. Coupled with food stamps and whatever other public assistance I could muster I could actually drain more out of the local area then I was putting in.
And I make nearly 55k a year.
Not that all of those 10k people were getting paid that much but most times people can put equal drains on public assistance reguardless of how much they made before. Either way it's better for something to be crappy and people to be employeed than have a superior product and put thousands out of business. If they're not paying taxes then you're paying it for them.
I think it's silly how Intel is now embracing a trend to include features already provided by another market. This is the same situation that MS caused by intergrating IE into the system. So now people will quit buying wireless AP's and routers becuase it came with the motherboard.
Intel will probalby do this witout adding more than 20 employees and in turn drive about 10,000 people out of jobs due to their companies going out of business.
Sorry guys but were going to get your broadband reduced to nillband and up your fees becuase some of you have been downloading music.. Of course we cant prove who was doing it so were going to punish everyone.
Dont you love mass punishment.
Same crap happened here... ISP's claim it was to stop the few from hogging all the bandwidth but it was really the RIAA/MPAA demanding they lower our broadband speeds to help curb the speeds we were downloading music. My RoadRunner before the capping frenzy ran around 3.5mbit down 1.8Mbit up.. now you can only get 768/128 verizon and SBC is worse 384/128 for the standard fee..
Now I wish I could get Speakeasy DSL at least for a similar price I could get2+mbit up and down but my phone company has a monopoly on the phone lines.
Base station density increases will cost them billions in network expansion costs.. Most Lucent upgrades just require a few changes to a base station which saves companies money.
WCDMA you'll have to have the extra base stations but at the same time you'll be using several base stations to maintain a acceptable signal therefore increasing bandwidth costs on each of those basestations. Nobody's piping DS3's to cell towers yet so you're really using more resources per cell than if you developed something that would work with the current system.
Facts:
AT&T 100-130 Max 200 Kbps avail to 215 Million Customers.
Sprint 50-70 Max 144 Kbps avail to 230 Million Customers.
Verizon Wireless 60-80 Max 144 avail to 230 Million Customers.
Verizon Wireless' NationalAccess has average speeds of 60 - 80 kbps, peaks at 144 kbps and is available to nearly 230 million. BroadbandAccess,
Verizon Wireless's faster EVDO service at 300 - 500 kbps on average (2 Mb peak), is offered in the San Diego and Washington D.C. markets.
EDGE makes its debut after nearly two years' delay due to technology issues. With no evolution path, EDGE is seen as a stop gap before AT&T has to invest in yet another technology like WCDMA. In addition, EDGE does not improve voice capacity and due to deteriorating data speeds over great distances from the base station, requires greater base station density thus adding to AT&T network costs.
Neither Sprint or At&T wireless is in position to provide any broadband services past their initial offerings. Vzw will be expanding the market for EVDO in 2004 to other major cities (I hope Dallas) Also sprint and verizon's speeds are slower due to technology limits with the initial offerings but compared to CDPD which was most times at best 14.4 speeds it's a leap ahead. I would expect to see 10-100Mbit wireless within the next 5 years in larger cities to compete with landline DSL and Cable which both have limits well under 40Mbit.
We'll it appears that projections in the late 90's of the market being over x millions of players have yet to pan out. The current giants are not even US built games but ones from more broadband developed countries such as South Korea and Japan.
Once again we lag the world in broadband access where other countries are well over 60% of the population. We will continue to see this trend and the smaller games will fall off.
Even a giant such as Turbine Games is having trouble resurrecting Asheron's Call 2 from the ultimate screwup MS made of it.
WoW is following the right path. "When we are ready" and if they bone up to the claim of "More content than ACv1 today at launch" then EQ/AC2/AC/Horizons better look to their features and subscriber counts.
They'll concentrate any efforts towards the corporate enviroment. Which means other things past spreadsheets and email will probably be neglected. They refuse to realise that targeting all aspects of PC usage is necessary to unseat the giant in Redmond.
Parents will not use Linux if the latest and greatest game cant run on it. Never mind the Xbox becuase console systems have proven they're not good enough yet to unseat the PC as the best gameing system for your money.
This is all based on what I hear, as in any case actions speak louder than words so I await to hear what really happens later down the road.
Here's to UserLinux!
A wise man once said. Say hi to the new boss. Same as the old boss.
It's time for the people to stand up and use technology to deal with the problem.
And maybe it's high time we all demanded a law that prevents our politicans from getting any money from businesses or orginazations.. We pay them enough already it's time they represent us not those who fund their campaigns!
Hey buddy..
./configure && make && make install
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
gunzip spammassassin.gz && tar -xf spamassassin.tar
Use any of the available configuration pages to generate a config..
install new config file in
Now that's about 10 minutes of work.
Of course you could of also done
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Mail::Spamassassin and then uploaded a config.
RTFM
IronPort is reported as stating that the SpamCop blocklist data will remain freely available to the public.
We just redid our email services and started using Spamcop our first RBL use ever and I'm extremely happy that it's blocking 99% of the mass spammers that have hit us for so long. After seeing the logs I was amazed that we get so much. I'll hold of on donations to spamcop until I know my money will be going towards supporting a free RBL service.
Has anyone checked this out? http://www.two-degrees.com I tried it on a download yesterday of 50 megs and 1 second after starting up I was connected to 7 hosts at full download speed. Torrents have never done that for me ever no matter what network I was downloading from.
Sadly it has no linux version.
The average Linux consumer would happily bone up 25 dollars to get RH workstation I'm sure. But at 179 per desktop that still makes Windows just as attractive.
"We will conform to the best compatible set of HTML for IE and support other browsers secondly. I dont care if it's a standard 98% of our visitors use IE and that's what we will focus on."
:)
Tell me that wouldnt be the case if IE was still just a download.
What's even more sick is I cant for the life of me remember what I surfed the web with before IE. IE Install Win 3.11 where did I get Netscape from
Probably was the ISP software CD's that was the usual method for the longest time.
I was never against IE back in the day when you had to download it. But when I saw what bundling your own software with your own OS does to other companies it's bad. Those companies employeed coders, VIP's, Janitors, secretaries. I'm sure there was room for both browsers but now there's just IE..
Just assuming MS kept up everything I'm sure they'd shut down more companies. Like RAV antivirus which supported Linux mail servers. MS buys them and will bundle a AV solution with Windows so what's Norton, Pcillin, or Mcafee going to do to compete. 90% of consumers will not go for something else if they already have something that does the job.
Most replies about getting someone to quit using Outlook Express is why? It works fine and came with it. Even the fact that the other software is free they are reluctant to move becuase this came with the system.
Windows just like DOS is a Operating System OS. That's all it should do. Provide a platform to run ANY program you wish to run on it.
Required programs should consist of basic grapics and network drivers that are compatible with almost everything. Some generic browser that's not intergrated into the entire system to allow one to select their own browser.
Then it can also provide links to obtain optimized drivers from each vendor that your PC runs from. Or download them itself and install as necessary.
Either way. Internet Explorer and WMP through licensing and other agreements have become vital and critical portions of other systems. There are whole groups of banks who will not allow you to conduct transactions from any other browser other than IE and there are tons of media houses that will not let you access it without IE AND WMP.
Of course some would argue that some sites are RA and Quicktime only. So I'd say force them to allow others to view their encoded content also and let them focus on the encoding part not the consumer part.
These are the same tactics being employed by many companies such as a printer shop that has elevated USB cables becuase the printer company does not include a USB cable most times. Or Local Number Portability. Think you're using that GSM phone on a CDMA network?
When was the last time you used a standard set of tools on your car or truck without having to have some special star socket to finish the job.
You can all whine and point the finger at MS but these issues surround your daily life. How bad does it have to get before you stand up and tell your politicans were tired of it. I sure hope it's not to the point where you cant use X toilet paper with Y toilet without it refusing to flush.