The election was 'ruled' in Bush's favor by the voters in dozens of states. In particular, he couldn't have won the election without the electoral votes of the voters in Arkansas (Clinton's 'home state' so to speak) and Tennesee (algore's 'home state' so to speak). If the voters in either Arkansas or Tennessee had voted for Gore, he would be president today.
Frankly, who gives a rip about the AOL (formerly 'Netscape') Browser? They tried to 0wn the web and they failed (if Netscape had prevailed they'd be making Microsoft look like a bunch of cub-scouts about now).
I run Opera on my Windows 2000 machine. It's faster, smaller, and more standards compliant than either of the bloatware browsers or the new Open Source bloatware browser.
I want a 'Piss on Tesla Coil' sticker. The little thug would of course have smoke rising from his crotch.
It would go next to the other modified sticker on my bumper. It used to read 'NO FEAR' but was modified to read 'FEAR ON' with a quick flick of the scissors.
The biggest criminal organization the world has ever seen is almost certainly still the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (I'm sure China is working on it, though). Or maybe the Teamsters.
Yes, they've already shot a lot of people (mostly the Communists, far few by the Teamsters).
I think all he got were gift certificates redeemable at the Sun Microsystems and Oracle Employee's store. So his wallet may be fat, but how much logo merchandise can any man want?
When you determine who your enemy is, it's often prudent to stop supporting them. The Democract-controlled DOJ determined who they considered the enemy early in the case.
Why should Microsoft give money to the Democrats? Should the Tobacco companes give money to the 'trial lawyers benevolent association'? Should Ford contribute to pay for General Motor's employee retreat?
I can't figure out why a finding that Jackson basically ran a kangaroo court doesn't ripple through the entire process he engineered. If he was a partisan judge who sided with the anti-Microsoft holy warriors in the final phase of the trial, why isn't the process used to 'find' the 'facts' in earlier phases of the trial equally questioned.
If you hire an incompetenet contractor to build your house, when you find out he was incompetent you don't just hire someobody to put on new siding.
Back in the day when 3/486 machines were more expensive and there were tons of 286 boxes readily at hand, I used to experiment a lot with TCP/IP networking using 286 boxes running DOS with Microsoft's LanManager Client (still available for free at Microsoft, btw.) connecting to Samba shares and telnetting into my cherished Linux (1.0 and 1.2 kernel) box from all around the house. 3C501 10base2 ethernet cards (eeek!) were $2.50 a pound at the local surplus store and life was grand.
It seemed to me at the time that what was really needed was a good, free X Terminal package to run on older boxes themselves not capable of running Linux.
These days, '486 hardware is the 'low end' and it might not be as important as it once was to use the really slow boxes (they're a waste of electricity to leave on, some would say) but it seems like ridiculous overkill to run a Linux kernel on something as simple as an X Terminal. The services running can be cut way back, etc. but it's still overkill for the machine to need a processor with Memory management (386 or greater) when even simpler hardware should work fine.
The name 'NewsForge' is actually kind of disturbing.
Any journalism major, even in the first year of school, knows that journalists and/or news sites don't 'forge' the 'news' whole from raw materials. Their job is to remain outside of the 'news creating' process, and instead to report on the news objectively as it happens. It's very Katz-like to wander around 'creating' news.
'NewsForge' is a shockingly illiterate title for a 'News' web page.
Server hardware is not in the same class with 'super cheap generic PC' hardware. It's built to different, higher, reliability standards because a lot more depends on a server than on the PC that the receptionist uses. But this is obvious to anybody in the biz.
Why does anybody even need to say this on Slashdot???
One doesn't find very much used Northgate hardware anymore. Will VA hardware be the new Northgate at the surplus shops? It'll certainly be more than the Atari 600XL that I bought cheap about a year after that entire line was orphaned, as one can run just about any x86 software on a VA box. (what do their Windows 2000 benchmarks look like?)
I do owe a bit of gratitude to Northgate. I got my first 386DX processor cheap because it was socketed on a defective Northgate motherboard when I purchased it. What a rush it was finally running Windows 3 with 'multitasking' on a 386 machine after years on 8088 and '286 boards. (most of that time on 8088 with Hercules graphics)
(And this may be why Microsoft will essentially go out of business within a decade. Internal development based around open source models will leave no reason to license anything from Mickey G. He'll end up like Corel, with a slice of the home market from people who want to still use the software they used to know.)
Or, this may be what drives people to greater devotion to companies like Microsoft (not necessarily the big M itself, of course). People don't thrive on difference. Businesses don't want to have to train every new hire in their totally non-standard methods of working with IT. A thousand hackers out there fiddling with code, all under the direction of different managers, don't converge on anything.
The lack of central direction is what killed Unix in the 70's and 80's. Nothing fundamental has changed to prevent that from happening again.
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The 'first webserver pitched out of a spacecraft.'
Hmmmm....
I thought everybody knew that 'web serving' is a throw away application.
I mean, let's be real here. Server hardware runs factories, large data centers, etc.
Web servers are geek toys for the unemployed.
What the heck are you talking about 'Freeper boy'??
Free Republic and Salon are the right and left wings on a big fricking loony-bird.
Don't accuse me of giving great credibility to either.
It's obvious to anybody with an open mind that both sites shill for their respective extreme political views.
The election was 'ruled' in Bush's favor by the voters in dozens of states. In particular, he couldn't have won the election without the electoral votes of the voters in Arkansas (Clinton's 'home state' so to speak) and Tennesee (algore's 'home state' so to speak). If the voters in either Arkansas or Tennessee had voted for Gore, he would be president today.
(deal with it)
emacs has always led the way in Software Bloat.
Frankly, who gives a rip about the AOL (formerly 'Netscape') Browser? They tried to 0wn the web and they failed (if Netscape had prevailed they'd be making Microsoft look like a bunch of cub-scouts about now).
I run Opera on my Windows 2000 machine. It's faster, smaller, and more standards compliant than either of the bloatware browsers or the new Open Source bloatware browser.
I want a 'Piss on Tesla Coil' sticker. The little thug would of course have smoke rising from his crotch.
It would go next to the other modified sticker on my bumper. It used to read 'NO FEAR' but was modified to read 'FEAR ON' with a quick flick of the scissors.
Why aren't those lawyers using Xywrite or something even more backwards?
WordStar rulez btw.
The biggest criminal organization the world has ever seen is almost certainly still the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (I'm sure China is working on it, though). Or maybe the Teamsters.
Yes, they've already shot a lot of people (mostly the Communists, far few by the Teamsters).
They haven't been punished.
I think all he got were gift certificates redeemable at the Sun Microsystems and Oracle Employee's store. So his wallet may be fat, but how much logo merchandise can any man want?
Where can I download the Web Browser written by this 14 year old?
When is he releasing an Office Suite? Will the spreadsheet produce 3-d graphics and pivot tables?
When you determine who your enemy is, it's often prudent to stop supporting them. The Democract-controlled DOJ determined who they considered the enemy early in the case.
Why should Microsoft give money to the Democrats? Should the Tobacco companes give money to the 'trial lawyers benevolent association'? Should Ford contribute to pay for General Motor's employee retreat?
Approval of the AOL-TW merger was the 'shadow corrective action.' It was clearly allowed as a result of the Microsoft case.
I can't figure out why a finding that Jackson basically ran a kangaroo court doesn't ripple through the entire process he engineered. If he was a partisan judge who sided with the anti-Microsoft holy warriors in the final phase of the trial, why isn't the process used to 'find' the 'facts' in earlier phases of the trial equally questioned.
If you hire an incompetenet contractor to build your house, when you find out he was incompetent you don't just hire someobody to put on new siding.
That's what Larry Ellison, Scot McNeely, and Steve Jobs thought until this morning.
Then it's clearly Larry Ellision and Scott McNeely's fault, for not contributing (bribing) the right candidate this time around.
Back in the day when 3/486 machines were more expensive and there were tons of 286 boxes readily at hand, I used to experiment a lot with TCP/IP networking using 286 boxes running DOS with Microsoft's LanManager Client (still available for free at Microsoft, btw.) connecting to Samba shares and telnetting into my cherished Linux (1.0 and 1.2 kernel) box from all around the house. 3C501 10base2 ethernet cards (eeek!) were $2.50 a pound at the local surplus store and life was grand.
It seemed to me at the time that what was really needed was a good, free X Terminal package to run on older boxes themselves not capable of running Linux.
These days, '486 hardware is the 'low end' and it might not be as important as it once was to use the really slow boxes (they're a waste of electricity to leave on, some would say) but it seems like ridiculous overkill to run a Linux kernel on something as simple as an X Terminal. The services running can be cut way back, etc. but it's still overkill for the machine to need a processor with Memory management (386 or greater) when even simpler hardware should work fine.
The name 'NewsForge' is actually kind of disturbing.
Any journalism major, even in the first year of school, knows that journalists and/or news sites don't 'forge' the 'news' whole from raw materials. Their job is to remain outside of the 'news creating' process, and instead to report on the news objectively as it happens. It's very Katz-like to wander around 'creating' news.
'NewsForge' is a shockingly illiterate title for a 'News' web page.
Server hardware is not in the same class with 'super cheap generic PC' hardware. It's built to different, higher, reliability standards because a lot more depends on a server than on the PC that the receptionist uses. But this is obvious to anybody in the biz.
Why does anybody even need to say this on Slashdot???
The world just won't be the same without those 19,000 GTK-based MP3 players, now, will it?
One doesn't find very much used Northgate hardware anymore. Will VA hardware be the new Northgate at the surplus shops? It'll certainly be more than the Atari 600XL that I bought cheap about a year after that entire line was orphaned, as one can run just about any x86 software on a VA box. (what do their Windows 2000 benchmarks look like?)
I do owe a bit of gratitude to Northgate. I got my first 386DX processor cheap because it was socketed on a defective Northgate motherboard when I purchased it. What a rush it was finally running Windows 3 with 'multitasking' on a 386 machine after years on 8088 and '286 boards. (most of that time on 8088 with Hercules graphics)
(And this may be why Microsoft will essentially go out of business within a decade. Internal development based around open source models will leave no reason to license anything from Mickey G. He'll end up like Corel, with a slice of the home market from people who want to still use the software they used to know.)
Or, this may be what drives people to greater devotion to companies like Microsoft (not necessarily the big M itself, of course). People don't thrive on difference. Businesses don't want to have to train every new hire in their totally non-standard methods of working with IT. A thousand hackers out there fiddling with code, all under the direction of different managers, don't converge on anything.
The lack of central direction is what killed Unix in the 70's and 80's. Nothing fundamental has changed to prevent that from happening again.
Specifically what IP does VA own?
Lists of compatible hardware? Combinations that have proven reliability?
I don't understand what they have beyond a somewhat HOWTO-aware staff and purchasing group.
I bought ApplixWare (Red Hat labeled version), SWiM Motif, and Wabi (Caldera labeled version) to celebrate the release of Windows 98.
Last weekend I bought Office XP.
I'm just looking forward to Malda asking me the famous 'fries with that?' question.