It wasn't the fact that the domain isn't registered; its the fact that the website doesn't exist! Leads me to suspect that the Taiwan operation doesn't exist except maybe on paper.
Where I was working last year they had several marketing ideas floating around -- one was 'lets see if we can get this on Slashdot'. (Along with 'lets email everyone on the internet' and 'lets fax every fax machine in the UK' -- they weren't very bright)
The point is that the unscrupulous could quite easily get themselves onto/. and basically (in their eyes) reap in the same benefits that spam provides them with.
I think that perhaps/. should ignore announcements like 'we'll be supporting linux in a future product' and only post ones like 'version 1 of xxx for linux is out'.
Do you know if there are any plans to place RedHat on the desktop? Maybe even teach some of the students some unix?
The reason I first installed Linux in 1994 was because I knew that I would have to use some kind of Unix at university the next year. (I'm doing computer science). This gave me a huge advantage over the other students -- while they were faffing around typing 'dir' and 'del' and looking for Program Manager so they could read their mail, I could get on with surf^H^H^H^Hdoing my assignments.
We had a simarly thing in the UK with the 'Eye of London' (a big ferris wheel.) Tony Blair pressed the button to make it turn for the first time. Lots of fireworks, lights and music, but a very stationary wheel.
We giggled. None of the press here have reported it. History has being rewritten.
Windows 9x users are quite likely going to turn their machines off at night, so I don't think comparing them against the likes of NT etc is really fair.
However, on the 95 vs 98 thing, I have noticed that if I leave my machine on overnight running 98 then it tends to have died by morning.
I don't think it will -- the impression I got from the pages is that QuickTime for Java is just an integration between the JVM and QuickTime. So, you'd still need QuickTime ported to your OS to use QuickTime for Java.
Think about OpenGL support for Java. I can now write OpenGL apps in Java, but I still need someone to provide the OpenGL implementation on my particular OS/JVM.
lol...but Microsoft release things that work and all problems are those on the part of users or evil people trying to defame Microsoft and attempt to stifle their ability to innovate and they're all sad hackers anyway who produce inferiour software and who would want to use that because there's no one you can sue and so on (dribble)
IANAL, but it seems to me that a lot of things like this get themselves sorted out when problems arise. Open Source licences are quite a new area, but as more and more things start to happen the licences will be refined -- possibly resulting in just a few licences.
Slashdot Mirror
It wasn't the fact that the domain isn't registered; its the fact that the website doesn't exist! Leads me to suspect that the Taiwan operation doesn't exist except maybe on paper.
From http://www.linuxone.net/news/press/press14.html
It seems they have an office in Taiwan. The web address is http://www.LinuxOneTaiwan.com
AFAIK there is no such site.
$whois linuxonetaiwan.com
[rs.internic.net]
Domain Name: LINUXONETAIWAN.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: RINOA.LINUXONE.NET
Name Server: DCAT.LINUXOPEN.COM
Updated Date: 12-jan-2000
Oh yeah, try going to http://rinoa.linuxone.net
I hope LinuxOne doesn't set my default Apache up with that page (check out the source of the logos).
To be redundant, these people are as suspicious as you can get.
Where I was working last year they had several marketing ideas floating around -- one was 'lets see if we can get this on Slashdot'. (Along with 'lets email everyone on the internet' and 'lets fax every fax machine in the UK' -- they weren't very bright)
/. and basically (in their eyes) reap in the same benefits that spam provides them with.
/. should ignore announcements like 'we'll be supporting linux in a future product' and only post ones like 'version 1 of xxx for linux is out'.
The point is that the unscrupulous could quite easily get themselves onto
I think that perhaps
Surely this technique can be applied to more fatal diseases such as HIV or Hepatitis?
Any reason why not?
Now, I wish I had something like that when I was at school!
Do you know if there are any plans to place RedHat on the desktop? Maybe even teach some of the students some unix?
The reason I first installed Linux in 1994 was because I knew that I would have to use some kind of Unix at university the next year. (I'm doing computer science). This gave me a huge advantage over the other students -- while they were faffing around typing 'dir' and 'del' and looking for Program Manager so they could read their mail, I could get on with surf^H^H^H^Hdoing my assignments.
I see someone you're really brave hiding behind the cover of AC.
Have you visited opengl.org recently? Did you *really* read the post I was replying to? Do you know anything about Berlin?
The least story on OpenGL is:
"Aftershock open-source QA3-like rendering engine using OpenGL"
I've been coding in OpenGL for the last 3 months now, so don't try and tell me I don't know what it is.
Well, I wouldn't know because as far as any of the press here seems to be concerned it was working all along!
The builders said it wouldn't be ready until the end of January, so I expect it will be going for real around that time.
Face it: these people were probably just good (and on a low latency connection).
My housemate is accused of cheating all the time, and I know for a fact he doesn't. No one here will play him because he is so good.
OpenGL is now tied to X? Huh! How about actually looking at www.opengl.org?
OSS == Open Source Software in this context.
Not Open Sound System.
Is it an Award 4.51PG by any chance? AFAIK these are the only BIOSes that have real problems with Y2K.
We had a simarly thing in the UK with the 'Eye of London' (a big ferris wheel.) Tony Blair pressed the button to make it turn for the first time. Lots of fireworks, lights and music, but a very stationary wheel.
We giggled. None of the press here have reported it. History has being rewritten.
Windows 9x users are quite likely going to turn their machines off at night, so I don't think comparing them against the likes of NT etc is really fair.
However, on the 95 vs 98 thing, I have noticed that if I leave my machine on overnight running 98 then it tends to have died by morning.
DOC++ doesn't work very well with inner classes in Java.
I just have to feel sorry for my housemate who is into a style of dance music called 'happy hardcore'.
Now imagine searching for that at an office where they log your internet access...
I don't think it will -- the impression I got from the pages is that QuickTime for Java is just an integration between the JVM and QuickTime. So, you'd still need QuickTime ported to your OS to use QuickTime for Java.
Think about OpenGL support for Java. I can now write OpenGL apps in Java, but I still need someone to provide the OpenGL implementation on my particular OS/JVM.
lol...but Microsoft release things that work and all problems are those on the part of users or evil people trying to defame Microsoft and attempt to stifle their ability to innovate and they're all sad hackers anyway who produce inferiour software and who would want to use that because there's no one you can sue and so on (dribble)
IANAL, but it seems to me that a lot of things like this get themselves sorted out when problems arise. Open Source licences are quite a new area, but as more and more things start to happen the licences will be refined -- possibly resulting in just a few licences.
From README.linux:
"This is an initial port of the OpenPlay sources to Linux.
It does not currently work as the socket code is not finished."
This sort of thing actually impresses me the most -- when people like Apple are prepared to release something that isn't finished.
Thanks! I also managed to coerce Amaya into getting it. Roll on Mozilla...
http://www.rsid.com/doc++ and http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ spring to mind.
Does anyone know any more about OpenPlay?
I tried to download it (registered etc) but Netscape consistently crashes after I fill in my user name/password.
This was a good discussion.
But haven't you guys been living in Perl for too long?
We had a very very bright moon last night. My girlfriend and I remarked on how bright it was and then I remembered seeing the headline on Slashdot.
It shone through the clouds and there was a slight rainbow -- and I could read by it. So, for us in the UK it was exceptionally bright.