Well its the ratfynk again, yes rpms have become the norm for buisiness Linuxes. I guess if you study rpm -i options and what the diffs are in Mandrake things are not too hard You can watch and step through an install proc if needed it is just tricky. The terminal out is OK for glitch busting, and because the original is usually available you can mostly figure out how things shake and break on your system.
One good thing about Mandrake is that you can put a terminal icon on your kde (or whatever it is) desk top real easy. You can still boot or reboot to a user or root without X... I hear. I would guess (during RedHats or Mandrakes interactive start up process somehow by saying no X for this session, value to true or the likes). I see you cannot chose start without Xgui in your X install anymore. Should be in a man page somewhere, its just really obfuscated and hard to find. I haven't figured it out in Mandrake 9+ yet. Since Xconfigurator has been murdered and laid to rest I guess startx is now a hidden proc. I'll find it even if I do a fatal kernel panic!!!!@#$#*^$uhgrrr. Maybe in RedHat... #switchdesk -no X ? Should be documented somewhere!
I like to be able type startx, its comforting for us old farts. I even like to be able to take a pico first at my mail, ifconfig, logs, and tracker log. Seeing whats new and exciting in pinging ports wonderland is important. Its really nice to know from where and when someone is knocking at the wrong door too often!
So I guess I shouldn't be too hard on RedHat and RedHat based distros. I can see why companies like IBM would not be too overjoyed with app-get or./configure for their techs. Though don't forget if you have the gcc collection powered up in there, RedHat or Mandrake can still./configure, and make just fine, (if you find where all the deps are moved to lately). You just need to first #./configure (function) --with (lib) PATH= (REDHATPATH to lib)..... Rather easy to muck up if you are not sure of yourself and don't know the right path or options.
Sometimes the man command is the one least used by us stuckup old Hackware and Debian users. Redhats man rpm, etc and Mandrake man(s) should be required reading for any Linux Oldtimer wanting to do main stream cutting edge Linux, otherwise our bitching rights are suspect!
Can I justify using software that blocks file sharing? I am a musician that wants to record PD Classical music, eg; Flow My Tears by John Dowland with a gifted vocalist. Then I want to release an mp3 with a free use copyleft attached to it of the recording. Will I be blocked by DRM in IE explorer from doing this?
If I am blocked by software from doing this them that software can be deemed to be in direct conflict with freedom of speach!
All this DRM bullshit has been caused by garbage, created the RIAA. My gloves are off. I am going to do it! If I find that any DRM software blocks my ability to send my freely created music over the net to anyone who wants to download it then I will initiate proceedings against that software under the First Amendment!
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Right now I am using Mozilla 1.4a under win98se and Linux I have experienced no bugs, great ftp speed, better overall internet compatability with University and knowledge sites world wide. None of problems that I am hearing about with Windbloze XP.
I am only running a P3 450 and find that with my setup it smokes.
I also find that Suns java with Mozilla is much faster than IE6 xml hell jscript pop up fantasy land or whatever Microsoft calls it now.
For me a clean install of Win98 blows XP out of the water for speed, (yes I have run other peoples p3 1+ ghz boxes), I do not understand how Microsoft has convinced so many people that they can fly with xp.
The tabed browsing in Mozilla is great!
The mail filters that I have set really work! You see I already have a large penis so I don't need to answer the adds.
Using ctrl+ and ctrl- to increase the font is beautiful! My wife and I are getting older and find that the font size switch is the best thing since sliced bread.
I can do all these thing and much more on my Linux boot too, so all this nonsense about Open Source being inferior just doesn't wash with those that are in the know. Sounds like there is alot of Windows XP caused penis envy happening here on/. Boy there sure are alot of people who will defend XP even though most initial open source software bug problems are caused by conflicts with changed proprietary windowing/piping code in XP.
Give Open Source people a chance they will figure out how Microshaft tweaked Windows source to screw free software ventures soon enough. Microsoft is not interested in helping, or even admiting thats the way they code!
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edit/preferences/set your home page. fyi are all anonymous cowards that microsoft stupid? Set it to whatever or chose a file any where on your computer. I use google. Sure it defaults until you set it, better Mozilla than an MSN wacky cookie button land like IE.,
I have a scenario for a cops and robbers game, kinda like Clue, the old stupid board game. Only you could be a good or a bad guy. If you are a good guy and you shoot someone then you have to fill out reports at a desk, to get back into the field. If you are a bad guy then you need to find where to take it on the lam when you do a job or kill a good guy, otherwise you might go to court then jail or even get executed, or maybe even be exhonerated. Cops would search for suspects and clues, bad guys would be suspects and always leave clues.
I have never played first person shooters or lame crap like grand theft auto. However a real life like cops and robbers game I would love.
I once saw a Yamaha midi/organ device that had a built in special music notation function keys, standard qwerty keyboard, as well as a music (piano) keyboard. What a monster! Bach would laugh. The pupose was to link to a dos music notation interface that came with it. Must have cost a fortune back then for the poor sucker that bought it! It even had a dot matix printer output. I can not for the life of me remember its name. It was in a pawn shop. I guess the original musician that owned it must have realised its faster to write things down by hand than use computers for writing music, if you are musicaly literate. Maybe he got wise to how much better Mac was for music notation back in the late 1980s.
Anyway that was the funkiest keyboard setup I have ever seen. Maybe the best thing possible would be an interface that alows the mouse to remap the keyboard on demand for program functions. You know a picture of the keyboard layout on the screen while a program runs, with function call tracking and remapping. It would be hard to impliment for proprietary ware binary fixed macros. I am sure the Windows programmers at Microsofts Old Spaghetti Factory in Redmond could create one for us for the right dollars. There is limited keyboard remapping in XP, guess thats why it runs like a dog on 128 of ram after you customise it!
At least if you do not like the macro choices in Open Software you can easily find and change them, then recompile the source. Then if it breaks the flow you can db the glitch, if your good at that sort of thing. If you are really good then you can pipe in new macros to functions etc.
Atleast Cringely, thinks of the Microsoft angle from a pure economic rational. His conjecture is much more rational than the obfuscation of / to \ or cp to copy or ls to dir, the difference between a proprietary dynamic link library and a private lib. It is obvious that the problems with computer software language is the babel that has occured to obfuscate and remain secret.
There is nothing technical about obfuscation of software language, it has been the stock and trade of Microsoft, and most companies including IBM. However IBM has been forced to become much more responsive to server technical support. IBM has realised that open source for the OS is a good thing as site specific changes to functions can easily be implimented by a qualified software tech. The result is that Microsoft, a company that relies on antiquated 32bit IBM arch to sell computers to ignorant pc users, is now trying desperately to eat IBMs 64bit lunch. However if IBM launches a killer cheap 64bit pc with Linux it might blow Microshaft out of the water in one heck of a hurry! Microsoft might then be forced to port a Win32 emu, Office and IE to 64bit Linux just to survive. It sure would be funny if people realised how stable and easy Open Office is to use! SCO is just a side show in the ongoing battle of the titans.
Give me an economic justification for war, then I might go along with your statement. The first casualties of war are usually not American economic thoerists, though this might be a good thing.
Bullshit to your economics. Give us an economic explanation of the pyramids all around the world or European middle age cathedrals.
There is every economic justification for non productive space exploration, it would employ millions and do no harm. Can we really justify our so called western lifestyle (I gag at the canned advertising word lifestyle). Al Gore was right. The biggest burden on our technical, social and economic advancement in the west is or obsession and the reliance on the personal auto-mobile.
The Chinese have been spared the obsession by economic necessity, and as they open their society and discover their true value as a people, they will over take the west in all fields of scientific human social endevour within the next decade.
As the first people to use fireworks in a non-destructive way maybe that is what they have in mind. When you set off a nuclear explosion 40 or 50 thousand miles out in space all you get is one hell of a big flash. It is the use of nuclear technology within our atmosphere that is the real cause for concern.
Sounds like another Windows salesman doing a/. article, trying to justify an os that lets an interpreted language do system call changes. Maybe they are researching VB quantum viruses so that when real quantum computing comes along there will still be work for SARC and all the other BS that comes from using software from Redmond. Microsoft could have made a secure system with win3.1 but they got sued, for stealing system utilities. End result a whole new bullshit industry ANTIVIRUS software.
I think I will write a year ten thousand millenium checker that checks if your software and hardware is year 10,000 compliant. Current os dating only goes to ddmmyyyy plus hhmmss, so we have a year 10,000 bug to fix. The software would be an easy sell to Windows users. Just like system utilities and antivirus junk. Thats just my opinion of Visual Basic for scientific monetary computing.
In Japan the rat is regarded as the sign of a good harvest.
Just as a matter of curiosity what ever happened to the brilliant idea of ram based ide drives. I cannot for the life of me remember the company that brought out an ide card with a bunch of ram and a battery on it. For that matter why not an IEEE flash card boot? Certainly a bios can be written to boot from either firewire or usb2. Again someone is holding up the real progress of computer tech, any suggestions as to suspects. Maybe the same people who held up the release of 64bit PCs for 10 years!
You would think that if you could ever get a bootable ram based ide then that would make platter drives great only for storage. I hate the idea of booting from a hard drive. Running critical system files on a mechanical device sucks, always has and always will. You could concievably store backups of your os boot on any hard drive then restore the ram drive in the event of battery failure.
I guess the cheap cost per gig of junky hard drives is one reason why this idea never took off. Also the artificially inflated price of ram might be the kicker as well. Wouldn't Microsoft and Intel have kittens if they had to make their os base structure different, I do not think Phoenix or AMD could care as they could easily adapt. You can bet BSD and Linux would beat Redmond out of the gate if a ram based master first ide ever caught on! Maybe these are the real reasons ram ide went away real quick. Not any technical hurdles.
There was flowing water on Mars. Was there once an atmosphere similar to Earth? These questions beg definitive answers. The existence of some form of clustering goo with DNA, would be the greatest scientific discovery of all time.
If some form of life is found then the genetic study of that life would be crucial to our understanding of life, atleast localy. There is the real possibility that life on Earth is geneticaly linked to something greater than Terran genesis.
Much of our common legends state exactly this possibility. Greek legends of Gods, Assyrian legends. These legends are so powerfull that they became religions.
In short discovering that life originated off world would be the greatest scientific discovery ever. Perhaps in some way we might have decended from Martians. Just maybe some of the Martians still boot around out in space living in bodies adapted to space, not Terran life.
The God legends and first hand reports of encounters are too pervasive and ongoing to ignore. What a kick in the balls for our sense of Human superiority if we find out we are not the most advanced form of life hanging around our solar system! Perhaps this and many other reasons is why advanced life would be reluctant to communicate directly with us anymore. We would take it the wrong way.
I personally do not run around with tin foil over my head to talk to aliens. However I cannot dismiss the posibility that they exist and just find things tricky as we advance, perhaps even dangerous. In the time of the Greeks we did not have nuclear tipped missiles to lob at them when they came into our atmosphere. Come to think of it the best the Greeks and Assyrians could do was chuck arrows, which they reportedly did.
So in conclusion until we become much less aggresive as a species I do not think contact with advanced life is possible. We need to go to Mars to find out if we are not the original intelligence in our solar system. It will take tremendous International cooperation go to Mars so it is a crucial step in our social evolution, as well as our technology.
Sony aka DGG, Columbia etc, and all the labels are just pushed by the chains. Small independant music stores that still do exist then can not compete in price for any label, independant or not. The mega store buisiness model kills more creativity than any other aspect of todays music industry.
Since home computers are realitively new to the music industry, Mp3 and file sharing just cannot find a home yet.
My vision of a new buisiness model would be in store burning of disks with any mixed content for customers. With write protection on the disk for a number of reburns. I believe this buisiness would take off, as music stores could include coffee etc, etc.
The oldested story about not paying the musician happenend centuries ago in Germany. The music industry needs to evolve, but paying the piper is still the real issue.
When you install Windows it does the bonzi trick to unsuspecting suckers. I know alot of people that do not know how to use a real mail program or ISP because of the default setups used by Microshaft. Why should Microsoft get away with this kind of scam when decent, honest spam scams like Kazaa and Bonzi suffer law suits.
Yes you lucky bum. Sounds like you are learning about real programming at a real college. Not.Net.processor bullshit. Most cowboys that can hack out a Vis Basic exe, and add flash to a web page think they are computer experts. Give em shit!
How can you consider methods to be standards and yet remain proprietary? That is the crux of the problem with the Net. Innovations are held back by proprietary standards. Why is Microsoft in the position that it is in? The only reason Microsoft can dictate its standards to the computer industry is that if you are not a favoured hardware partner your chances of survival are dubious.
Rockwell modem standards Ha. We'll make modems brain dead. Printer call standards, you are dreaming. HTML was a great idea, then along comes sneaky proprietary system calls for IE. Yuk. Standards do not fly if one company is allowed to steal the show and use so called standards like a moving target.
Every time my ISP (telus.net) upgrades its MS server some piece of crap gets added that rejects Internet directing request packets from anything other than Windows. Then I need to call the techs, ping their front end, which is always still there returning pings. Then while I am talking to them get Linux eth0 recognised again. The Microsoft obfuscation bullshit just goes on and on and on.........
Just try cracking certain domains and watch how fast you get whacked. The community wants hackers to try, it is their bread and butter. The recruiting methods for the community are a little more sophisticated than Microsoft. Dot Net hackers need not apply.
Their ability to code requirements go far beyond Redmond. Do you guys think that a system like Carnivor could have come from Redmond? Who built the net in the first place? Brilliant minds are more common at the CIA than anywhere else in Government. It is just that they are smart enough not to need to advertise, the myths about the CIA being composed of stupid individuals are very carefully cultivated and a necessary diversion.
Some unusable crap can still be gotten around the old way. Hack out your own PPP and set up/sbin ifup, and execute ifup from a console. All the fancy button crap can be gotten around still, just remember to set up your user mode in ifup, make sure your modem is detected and setup though, that could be the problem!
Uncircumscised slackware users need not apply, we do need not think about lib dep, well mostly. There is a distro bias on/. that is obvious. It is time to rip em up with Slack comparisons. I love to be able to run Pico, where did it go in RedFat, Kstars is where it belongs in Edutainment. Well holy shit Slack doesn't hack the shit out of everything nice, like Mandorke and RedFat. If I decide to hack out some shit then it is up to me. If I decide to develope kernel panic then it is up to me to fix it. Slack makes you learn chown and chmod and other important concepts first. I like it.
The probability of being hit by space junk is about to take another leap forward. That does it, I am going to invest in space radar tech companies. Star Wars tech will become necessary just to hold something in low orbit without it getting whacked! Think of the data base coding necessary to track millions of pieces of lethal space junk traveling at 14 kms per second! The problem is not the satelites the problems will come from added junk deployed by more orbital staging hardware.
The future of space exploration is being put in jeopardy by the sheer volume of space junk out there now. I hope there is serious consideration by the EU to use better techniques than the Russians and the pre Space Shuttle to deploy their satelites. The use of atmosphere burn up vectoring for discards is very tricky and expensive. Dollars to dognuts they will take the cheap route and leave several hundred tonnes more junk vizzing around!
On the contrary Microsoft is not giving away anything. It is alowing certain third world GOVERNMENTS to use its software, as well as charities. The reality of software is that you own nothing other than the right to use. Free software you also do not own, however you are free to learn how to copy, change, and publish its functions, sell fair copy of your own software for its OS, if it has value. There is a big difference in philosophy. You can bet there will be no free use of any core developement software given away by Microsoft.
The very last thing on earth that Microsoft wants is people to be hired or learn to write regional appropriate interfaces. The real reason Microsoft is giving the use of its software away to third world countries is that it needs beta testers for language releases. You can bet your bottom dollar that the bug reports, spelling errors, reports of ill conceived interface naming, etc in many languages is one of the biggest benefits Microsoft is looking for in return.
The real threat to Microsoft comes from Unixses in the Orient, and to some extent eastern Europe where Linux and Unix have a big head start, especially in the Universities. Go to just about any eastern University and you will find Unix culture. Microsoft is a late comer to the University culture of the world, it is flexing its North America centric world view with its dollars and is in for a big suprise. The so called third world is not as backward as one here is taught to believe. Most of the best programmers are coming from India and many can C and Assembley code the Dickens out 99% of the info college Dot Net Visual Studio hackers, working in IS the US.
By NT I mean the latest and greatest iteration. It is still the NT kernel XP pro or whatever. She is just lucky they hospital was not stupid enough to upgrade to Win 2000, they just went straight to XP. The only reason why they use Windows at all is that it is necessary because of MS Office. All the imaging software catscans, exrays, MRIs, etc are Unix based, and do not give the med imaging techs anywhere near as much grief as using Windows servers.
Most Apple users do not have the skills necessary to mod. They get really irate if you change anything, or even suggest that perfection is not already theirs.
It all comes down to what you get. If what you get needs tweaking you cannot do it in MS world. If what you get has a problem with your hardware, it is cheaper to buy different hardware than get a software fix. The whole premise of Microsoft is bad. The OS becomes overburdened by added hardware command structures that cause through put restrictions.
Good example is the print server limitations caused by print drivers. Gives my wife fits on their NT system everytime a new printer needs to be included or excluded from the routing. If it wasn't for the fact that Microsoft has hardware companies squeezed by the balls, Microsoft would very quickly lose the majority of its buisiness. Their server software sucks, because of the use of too many hardware drivers.
The real in depth testing of Win NT was done by six monkeys in England, after which the six monkeys started work on Windows 2003 server. Each monkey is now MSCE certified. This greatly improves the level of support for Windows Server, as now there are more monkeys working on it than ever.
The obvious purpose of any new language from Microsoft is lock web application developement to a single platform. All one has to do is look at the XML C# extentions already used in visual studio. It is certain that the only thing Microsoft is concerned about is avoiding cross platform web developement.
The very fact that computer languages are now being changed only to obfuscate the C programming language tells volumes about the corporate agenda. Originally C++ was designed to make it easier to create extentions, and morph existing primitives. Along comes Microsoft, and now the programmer does not need to know how things work. No wonder so much junkware exists for Windows, any goof with a microsoft compiler can create an executable, hide what they wrote and then try to sell to gullible Windows users. F# will just make it even easier to create proprietary junkware.
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Well its the ratfynk again, yes rpms have become the norm for buisiness Linuxes. I guess if you study rpm -i options and what the diffs are in Mandrake things are not too hard You can watch and step through an install proc if needed it is just tricky. The terminal out is OK for glitch busting, and because the original is usually available you can mostly figure out how things shake and break on your system.
./configure for their techs. Though don't forget if you have the gcc collection powered up in there, RedHat or Mandrake can still ./configure, and make just fine, (if you find where all the deps are moved to lately). You just need to first #./configure (function) --with (lib) PATH= (REDHATPATH to lib)..... Rather easy to muck up if you are not sure of yourself and don't know the right path or options.
One good thing about Mandrake is that you can put a terminal icon on your kde (or whatever it is) desk top real easy. You can still boot or reboot to a user or root without X... I hear. I would guess (during RedHats or Mandrakes interactive start up process somehow by saying no X for this session, value to true or the likes). I see you cannot chose start without Xgui in your X install anymore. Should be in a man page somewhere, its just really obfuscated and hard to find. I haven't figured it out in Mandrake 9+ yet. Since Xconfigurator has been murdered and laid to rest I guess startx is now a hidden proc. I'll find it even if I do a fatal kernel panic!!!!@#$#*^$uhgrrr. Maybe in RedHat... #switchdesk -no X ? Should be documented somewhere!
I like to be able type startx, its comforting for us old farts. I even like to be able to take a pico first at my mail, ifconfig, logs, and tracker log. Seeing whats new and exciting in pinging ports wonderland is important. Its really nice to know from where and when someone is knocking at the wrong door too often!
So I guess I shouldn't be too hard on RedHat and RedHat based distros. I can see why companies like IBM would not be too overjoyed with app-get or
Sometimes the man command is the one least used by us stuckup old Hackware and Debian users.
Redhats man rpm, etc and Mandrake man(s) should be required reading for any Linux Oldtimer wanting to do main stream cutting edge Linux, otherwise our bitching rights are suspect!
Can I justify using software that blocks file sharing? I am a musician that wants to record PD Classical music, eg; Flow My Tears by John Dowland with a gifted vocalist. Then I want to release an mp3 with a free use copyleft attached to it of the recording. Will I be blocked by DRM in IE explorer from doing this?
If I am blocked by software from doing this them that software can be deemed to be in direct conflict with freedom of speach!
All this DRM bullshit has been caused by garbage, created the RIAA. My gloves are off. I am going to do it! If I find that any DRM software blocks my ability to send my freely created music over the net to anyone who wants to download it then I will initiate proceedings against that software under the First Amendment!
Right now I am using Mozilla 1.4a under win98se and Linux I have experienced no bugs, great ftp speed, better overall internet compatability with University and knowledge sites world wide. None of problems that I am hearing about with Windbloze XP.
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I am only running a P3 450 and find that with my setup it smokes.
I also find that Suns java with Mozilla is much faster than IE6 xml hell jscript pop up fantasy land or whatever Microsoft calls it now.
For me a clean install of Win98 blows XP out of the water for speed, (yes I have run other peoples p3 1+ ghz boxes), I do not understand how Microsoft has convinced so many people that they can fly with xp.
The tabed browsing in Mozilla is great!
The mail filters that I have set really work! You see I already have a large penis so I don't need to answer the adds.
Using ctrl+ and ctrl- to increase the font is beautiful! My wife and I are getting older and find that the font size switch is the best thing since sliced bread.
I can do all these thing and much more on my Linux boot too, so all this nonsense about Open Source being inferior just doesn't wash with those that are in the know. Sounds like there is alot of Windows XP caused penis envy happening here on
Boy there sure are alot of people who will defend
XP even though most initial open source software bug problems
are caused by conflicts with changed proprietary windowing/piping code in XP.
Give Open Source people a chance they will figure out how Microshaft tweaked Windows source to screw free software ventures soon enough. Microsoft is not interested in helping, or even admiting thats the way they code!
The rat is regarded as the sign of a good harvest in Japan
edit/preferences/set your home page. fyi are all anonymous cowards that microsoft stupid? Set it to whatever or chose a file any where on your computer. I use google. Sure it defaults until you set it, better Mozilla than an MSN wacky cookie button land like IE.,
you could be a good or a bad guy. If you are a good guy and you shoot someone then you have to fill out reports at a desk, to get back into the field. If you are a bad guy then you need to find where to take it on the lam when you do a job or kill a good guy, otherwise you might go to court then jail or even get executed, or maybe even be exhonerated. Cops would search for suspects and clues, bad guys would be suspects and always leave clues.
I have never played first person shooters or lame crap like grand theft auto. However a real life like cops and robbers game I would love.
I can not for the life of me remember its name.
It was in a pawn shop. I guess the original musician that owned it must have realised its faster to write things down by hand than use computers for writing music, if you are musicaly literate. Maybe he got wise to how much better Mac was for music notation back in the late 1980s.
Anyway that was the funkiest keyboard setup I have ever seen. Maybe the best thing possible would be an interface that alows the mouse to remap the keyboard on demand for program functions. You know a picture of the keyboard layout on the screen while a program runs, with function call tracking and remapping. It would be hard to impliment for proprietary ware binary fixed macros.
I am sure the Windows programmers at Microsofts Old Spaghetti Factory in Redmond could create one for us for the right dollars.
There is limited keyboard remapping in XP, guess thats why it runs like a dog on 128 of ram after you customise it!
At least if you do not like the macro choices in Open Software you can easily find and change them, then recompile the source. Then if it breaks the flow you can db the glitch, if your good at that sort of thing.
If you are really good then you can pipe in new macros to functions etc.
Atleast Cringely, thinks of the Microsoft angle from a pure economic rational. His conjecture is much more rational than the obfuscation of / to \ or cp to copy or ls to dir, the difference between a proprietary dynamic link library and a private lib. It is obvious that the problems with computer software language is the babel that has occured to obfuscate and remain secret.
There is nothing technical about obfuscation of software language, it has been the stock and trade of Microsoft, and most companies including IBM. However IBM has been forced to become much more responsive to server technical support. IBM has realised that open source for the OS is a good thing as site specific changes to functions can easily be implimented by a qualified software tech. The result is that Microsoft, a company that relies on antiquated 32bit IBM arch to sell computers to ignorant pc users, is now trying desperately to eat IBMs 64bit lunch. However if IBM launches a killer cheap 64bit pc with Linux it might blow Microshaft out of the water in one heck of a hurry! Microsoft might then be forced to port a Win32 emu, Office and IE to 64bit Linux just to survive. It sure would be funny if people realised how stable and easy Open Office is to use! SCO is just a side show in the ongoing battle of the titans.
Give me an economic justification for war, then I might go along with your statement. The first casualties of war are usually not American economic thoerists, though this might be a good thing.
Bullshit to your economics. Give us an economic explanation of the pyramids all around the world or European middle age cathedrals.
There is every economic justification for non productive space exploration, it would employ millions and do no harm. Can we really justify our so called western lifestyle (I gag at the canned advertising word lifestyle). Al Gore was right. The biggest burden on our technical, social and economic advancement in the west is or obsession and the reliance on the personal auto-mobile.
The Chinese have been spared the obsession by economic necessity, and as they open their society and discover their true value as a people, they will over take the west in all fields of scientific human social endevour within the next decade.
As the first people to use fireworks in a non-destructive way maybe that is what they have in mind. When you set off a nuclear explosion 40 or 50 thousand miles out in space all you get is one hell of a big flash. It is the use of nuclear technology within our atmosphere that is the real cause for concern.
I think I will write a year ten thousand millenium
checker that checks if your software and hardware is year 10,000 compliant.
Current os dating only goes to ddmmyyyy plus hhmmss, so we have a year 10,000 bug to fix. The software would be an easy sell to Windows users. Just like system utilities and antivirus junk. Thats just my opinion of Visual Basic for scientific monetary computing.
In Japan the rat is regarded as the sign of a good harvest.
IEEE flash card boot?
Certainly a bios can be written to boot from either firewire or usb2. Again someone is holding up the real progress of computer tech, any suggestions as to suspects. Maybe the same people who held up the release of 64bit PCs for 10 years!
You would think that if you could ever get a bootable ram based ide then that would make platter drives great only for storage. I hate the idea of booting from a hard drive. Running critical system files on a mechanical device sucks, always has and always will. You could concievably store backups of your os boot on any hard drive then restore the ram drive in the event of battery failure.
I guess the cheap cost per gig of junky
hard drives is one reason why this idea never took off. Also the artificially inflated price of ram might be the kicker as well. Wouldn't Microsoft and Intel have kittens if they had to make their os base structure different, I do not think Phoenix or AMD could care as they could easily adapt. You can bet BSD and Linux would beat Redmond out of the gate if a ram based master first ide ever caught on! Maybe these are the real reasons ram ide went away real quick. Not any technical hurdles.
If some form of life is found then the genetic study of that life would be crucial to our understanding of life, atleast localy. There is the real possibility that life on Earth is geneticaly linked to something greater than Terran genesis.
Much of our common legends state exactly this possibility. Greek legends of Gods, Assyrian legends. These legends are so powerfull that they became religions.
In short discovering that life originated off world would be the greatest scientific discovery ever. Perhaps in some way we might have decended from Martians. Just maybe some of the Martians still boot around out in space living in bodies adapted to space, not Terran life.
The God legends and first hand reports of encounters are too pervasive and ongoing to ignore. What a kick in the balls for our sense of Human superiority if we find out we are not the most advanced form of life hanging around our solar system! Perhaps this and many other reasons is why advanced life would be reluctant to communicate directly with us anymore. We would take it the wrong way.
I personally do not run around with tin foil over my head to talk to aliens. However I cannot dismiss the posibility that they exist and just find things tricky as we advance, perhaps even dangerous. In the time of the Greeks we did not have nuclear tipped missiles to lob at them when they came into our atmosphere. Come to think of it the best the Greeks and Assyrians could do was chuck arrows, which they reportedly did.
So in conclusion until we become much less aggresive as a species I do not think contact with advanced life is possible. We need to go to Mars to find out if we are not the original intelligence in our solar system. It will take tremendous International cooperation go to Mars so it is a crucial step in our social evolution, as well as our technology.
Since home computers are realitively new to the music industry, Mp3 and file sharing just cannot find a home yet.
My vision of a new buisiness model would be in store burning of disks with any mixed content for customers. With write protection on the disk for a number of reburns. I believe this buisiness would take off, as music stores could include coffee etc, etc.
The oldested story about not paying the musician happenend centuries ago in Germany. The music industry needs to evolve, but paying the piper is still the real issue.
When you install Windows it does the bonzi trick to unsuspecting suckers. I know alot of people that do not know how to use a real mail program or ISP because of the default setups used by Microshaft.
Why should Microsoft get away with this kind of scam
when decent, honest spam scams like Kazaa and Bonzi suffer law suits.
Yes you lucky bum. Sounds like you are learning about real programming at a real college. Not .Net .processor bullshit.
Most cowboys that can hack out a Vis Basic exe,
and add flash to a web page think they are computer experts. Give em shit!
Rockwell modem standards Ha. We'll make modems brain dead. Printer call standards, you are dreaming.
HTML was a great idea, then along comes sneaky proprietary system calls for IE. Yuk. Standards do not fly if one company is allowed to steal the show and use so called standards like a moving target.
Every time my ISP (telus.net) upgrades its MS server some piece of crap gets added that rejects Internet directing request packets from anything other than Windows. Then I need to call the techs, ping their front end, which is always still there returning pings. Then while I am talking to them get Linux eth0 recognised again. The Microsoft obfuscation bullshit just goes on and on and on.........
Their ability to code requirements go far
beyond Redmond. Do you guys think that a system like Carnivor could have come from Redmond? Who built the net in the first place? Brilliant minds are more common at the CIA than anywhere else in Government. It is just that they are smart enough not to need to advertise, the myths about the CIA being composed of stupid individuals are very carefully cultivated and a necessary diversion.
Some unusable crap can still be gotten around the old way. /sbin ifup, and execute ifup from a console. All the fancy button crap can be gotten around still, just remember to set up your user mode in ifup, make sure your modem is detected and setup though, that could be the problem!
Hack out your own PPP and set up
Uncircumscised slackware users need not apply, we do need not think about lib dep, well mostly. /. that is obvious. It is time to rip em up with Slack comparisons. I love to be able to run Pico, where did it go in RedFat, Kstars is where it belongs in Edutainment. Well holy shit Slack doesn't hack the shit out of everything nice, like Mandorke and RedFat. If I decide to hack out some shit then it is up to me. If I decide to develope kernel panic then it is up to me to fix it. Slack makes you learn chown and chmod and other important concepts first. I like it.
There is a distro bias on
The future of space exploration is being put in jeopardy by the sheer volume of space junk out there now. I hope there is serious consideration by the EU to use better techniques than the Russians and the pre Space Shuttle to deploy their
satelites. The use of atmosphere burn up vectoring for discards is very tricky and expensive. Dollars to dognuts they will take the cheap route and leave several hundred tonnes more junk vizzing around!
The reality of software is that you own nothing other than the right to use. Free software you also do not own, however you are free to learn how to copy, change, and publish its functions, sell fair copy of your own software for its OS, if it has value. There is a big difference in philosophy. You can bet there will be no free use of any core developement software given away by Microsoft.
The very last thing on earth that Microsoft wants is people to be hired or learn to write regional appropriate interfaces. The real reason Microsoft is giving the use of its software away to third world countries is that it needs beta testers for language releases. You can bet your bottom dollar that the bug reports, spelling errors, reports of ill conceived interface naming, etc in many languages is one of the biggest benefits Microsoft is looking for in return.
The real threat to Microsoft comes from Unixses in the Orient, and to some extent eastern Europe where Linux and Unix have a big head start, especially in the Universities. Go to just about any eastern University and you will find Unix culture. Microsoft is a late comer to the University culture of the world, it is flexing its North America centric world view with its dollars and is in for a big suprise. The so called third world is not as backward as one here is taught to believe. Most of the best programmers are coming from India and many can C and Assembley code the Dickens out 99% of the info college Dot Net Visual Studio hackers, working in IS the US.
By NT I mean the latest and greatest iteration. It is still the NT kernel XP pro or whatever. She is just lucky they hospital was not stupid enough to upgrade to Win 2000, they just went straight to XP.
The only reason why they use Windows at all is that it is necessary because of MS Office. All the imaging software catscans, exrays, MRIs, etc are Unix based, and do not give the med imaging techs anywhere near as much grief as using Windows servers.
Most Apple users do not have the skills necessary to mod. They get really irate if you change anything, or even suggest that perfection is not already theirs.
If what you get has a problem with your hardware, it
is cheaper to buy different hardware than get a software fix. The whole premise of Microsoft is bad. The OS becomes overburdened by added hardware command structures that cause through put restrictions.
Good example is the print server limitations caused by print drivers. Gives my wife fits on their NT system everytime a new printer needs to be included or excluded from the routing.
If it wasn't for the fact that Microsoft has hardware companies squeezed by the balls, Microsoft would very quickly lose the majority of its buisiness. Their server software sucks, because of the use of too many hardware drivers.
The real in depth testing of Win NT was done by six monkeys in England, after which the six monkeys started work on Windows 2003 server. Each monkey is now MSCE certified. This greatly improves the level of support for Windows Server, as now there are more monkeys working on it than ever.
The very fact that computer languages are now being changed only to obfuscate the C programming language tells volumes about the corporate agenda.
Originally C++ was designed to make it easier to create extentions, and morph existing primitives. Along comes Microsoft, and now the programmer does not need to know how things work.
No wonder so much junkware exists for Windows, any
goof with a microsoft compiler can create an executable, hide what they wrote and then try to sell to gullible Windows users. F# will just make it even easier to create proprietary junkware.