and bring back the original Macintosh case for 2004. Maybe make a few mods to it, like translucent plastic in 5 different colors.:)
Use a G3 or G4 CPU and have it run OSX. Use a color 9 inch LCD screen. No floppy but DVD/CDRW drive. Price it low enough to be affordable, like $999USD or something. Would be nice if it was $700USD or lower to compete with the low cost WINTEL PC systems.
Ah well, at least that PC in a Mac Plus can run Darwin.:)
I could have gotten certified, but the IT market is shrinking in the USA. So instead I decided to change careers. I am now taking Business Management and I am earning a four year degree and then my MBA. Those will not expire like certifications.
True I might end up a PHB instead of a Dilbert, but at least I will have a job and not be another disposible employee. My computer knowledge will be an extra benefit, and I can manage an IT Department and know what I a doing, unlike a PHB.
Some people cannot afford the hardware upgrade to use the latest OS. Ah well there is always mp3.com and buymusic.com etc to buy music files from. Mp3.com was free, but they are reorganizing to a pay based system.
unless it states that the free music downloads are from iTunes and part of a 100M USD giveaway by Pepsi and Apple. A clever idea, to give songs away to create accounts and then when the giveaway is over, hopefully the people who created accounts will actually buy music at 99 cents per song.
Pepsi and Apple are offering a free way to download music legally, as part of a promotion. Not telling people to use a file sharing app, but rather use iTunes.
A shame that iTunes only works with Windows 2000 and up. 98, 95, etc users are out of luck.:(
I think they are negotiating the rights to host it or something. It might be online later on in the year. I totally missed it, and did not view it yet. I am still trying to view the Cybermen "Real Time" episode when I find the time to finish it.
that Doctor Who does not have its own Slashdot topic. What is up with that?:)
26 seasons, wow, Tom Baker is my favorite Dr. Who actor. Favorite line "Harry Suluvan is an imbecile!" from when Harry tried to remove a bomb from Dr. Who's body that was rigged to explode if tampered with.:)
Or do you just suspect it is a violation? As many people said, Java byte code can be decompiled and compared to your code. If you did this and it matches, take the evidence to a lawyer who understands the GPL and take action. I suggest that if the offending company is selling the code as part of a closed source project that you ask for a percentage of those sales or at least that the company cease and desist from using your code.
Be very careful here because they can easily counter-sue you and overlawyer you if they are a bigger corporation. Your legal bills will run high and eventually you will have to settle out of court. Get a lawyer that does not get paid until you get paid and takes a small percentage of the settlement.
I would like to use Linux, but many things are stopping me. One is concern over the SCO lawsuits, I won't explain the rest just yet.
So far I have not seen any evidence to back up SCO's claims. Why should I pay SCO for a Linux license when they cannot prove that I owe them for one?
This is not going to work, SCO is using scare tactics to force money out of Linux users and companies that produce Linux distrobutions. Anyone that pays SCO a Linux License will be used as evidence that others must pay as well.
SCO Unix is not the same as Linux, the issue is if Linux is using SCO Unix code which has not yet been proven anywhere.
What is the delay with SCO? If they had the hard evidence, certainly they would have produced evidence of it by now.
I guess those Scientists just created their replacements? Why outsource to India when a robot can do the job much cheaper? The robot also would not sleep, take vacations, complain, or require benefits.:)
Maybe we can finally get an unbiased opinion on the heated debate on Evolution verses Intelligent Design?:) Let the robot, which does not have a religion or opinions, do the work.
Just watch the robot carefully so that it does not create an army of robots that look like Arnold Schwarzenegger and build Skynet.;)
create a Spam filter that uses a dictionary that words can be added to. If a message has a certain percentage of unknown words in it, consider it possible Spam. Try to include every possible word in the language used for the dictionary.
If you are putting Windows 98 on a new system, you may not be able to get 98 drivers for it. A lot of OEMs seem to support 2000, XP, 2003, etc but not the older Windows 9X drivers. Good luck trying to get that USB 2.0 or Firewire driver. Hope your video card has a driver, if not use the VGA driver all the way.
You are giving the middle-finger to Microsoft and ignoring the EULA. Good thing they only audit large companies for software audits and not home consumers. Only way they can find out about it is if you call them for tech support and your hardware configuration has changed from the last time you called them and you have the same product key.
Also consider that 98 won't run the new Napster client or the Windows iTunes client. More software will come out that will require Windows 2000 or above to work.
My brother had bought some 200Mhz Pentium MMX laptops from eBay. His sons stepped on the screens and cracked them. He found a replacement part, paid some good money for it, and bought an IBM repair manual. The part did not work and obviously was designed for a different Thinkpad. The IBM repair of the Thinkpad would cost more than the price of buying one used on eBay.
So he gave them to me. I have a laptop just like it that works, but my son dropped it and damaged the hard drive. Same model Thinkpad. I often wanted to get a 9Gig drive for it and dual-boot Windows 98 and Linux on it. I've been to afraid to open it up and change out the hard drive without ruining something. Not the same as working on an ATX case.
The cracked screen Thinkpads can be used as a desktop with a monitor. They are sans CD-ROM, but I have a PCMCIA CD-ROM from my brother. Windows 98 got installed over a network, Windows 95 got installed first from a Zip Drive, and then an upgrade to 98 was done over a network shared CD-ROM.
No local shop will repair it, unless they are an IBM dealer and they will charge more than the laptop is worth.
they have a machine that cannot be upgraded to run Windows 2000 or XP. If they want to run 2000 or XP, they need to buy a brand new machine.
Ironically I still know people running Windows 3.X or Windows 95 or even DOS. They cannot afford to upgrade to a newer machine or newer software. They could; however, run Linux or *BSD Unix on their systems if they knew how. Not as fast as modern machines, but enough to limp along.
New machines can cost like $500USD to $600USD, and then they have to buy the modern software to run on them, as they cannot use the older software as the EULA usually does not allow them to switch it from one machine to another. Plus it may not run on the newer machine or use all the features.
An alternative is to head to Wal-Mart or some other place that sells a $400USD Lindows machine and use OpenOffice.Org etc. Then they need to be retrained for the new OS and software. Then use OSS software for everything else. This of course would require the assistance of someone like a Slashdotter who is Linux savvy and can train them.
Another alternative is to buy a used machine with 2000 or XP on it, or 2000/XP ready. Still the softare will need to be upgraded. The hardware costs will be less than the new machine.
Yet another alternative is if they have an ATX case, to just get a new ATX motherboard, CPU, Memory, and ATX power supply. Get an all-in-one motherboard with built in Video, Audio, LAN, Modem, etc. Like an NForce2 chipset motherboard. Still need to buy 2000/XP and the software upgrades. The hardware cost will be lower than a new machine, and may be lower than an used machine.
No matter what the option, the 98 user may have to buy new hardware to migrate to 2000/XP.
trust me, I've been to the brink of suicide and back. I've lost a friend to suicide. I've known sucidal people.
You do not want to do it, trust me on this. You have a lot of life left in you, do not throw it away.
While things appear hopeless, you can do something about it.
Get a book on parenting, learn to budget things. You don't have to buy your children toys all the time, try getting creative and give them a cardboard box to play with and crayons to draw on that box. Won't cost you much and keeps them happy.
Get a private detective to follow your wife around and get pictures. If you have proof of her cheating on you, get a divorse or confront her with the pictures.
You have writer's block, most likely caused by your depression. You need to take your mind off of things and do something fun. Or get an assistant to co-write the books with you and share credit. Share ideas with the assistant that you have, and observations you've made, and research results. You obvously have the knowledge and education, but seem to not have the writing skills.
You are not letting us down, you are; however, letting yourself down. You need to learn to forgive yourself, and deal with the issues in your life. Fight for it, I know you can.
Microsoft isn't the only option out there. They may have the most marketshare, but there are other options out there. Alternatives to Microsoft products exist. About time Microsoft understands this.
MSOffice is priced too high, Israel understands this. Israel also understands that OpenOffice.org is a lot cheaper and can do much of the same things as MSOffice.
It also said it would encourage the development of lower-priced alternatives. To that end, it is cooperating with Sun Microsystems (NasdaqNM:SUNW - News) and IBM (NYSE:IBM - News) to design a Hebrew language version of OpenOffice software, a freely distributed open-source alternative to Office.
OpenOffice.Org should be ported to many different languages if it is to compete with MSOffice. I see this as a bold move to help bring about an alternative to MSOffice that is more affordable. I wonder if certain Software can be called Kosher?:)
I am reminded of China going with its own version of Linux and trying to develop an alternative to Windows from it. Will more countries get the guts to say "No" to Microsoft and use alternatives or make deals with other companies to create alternatives? I hope so.
This could be the start of a new trend. A movement away from MS products and towards alternatives like OSS products.
One factor not mentioned in the articles is Malware, Windows and MSOffice can easily be inflected by Malware but Linux and OpenOffice.Org are not infected by the same Malware. So there is a hidden cost to the TCO, if the Microsoft software gets infected with Malware. Consider a few hours of downtime to scrub the systems of the Malware infected on it.
but the law is the law. He thought he was helping out those companies, but he didn't get those compny's permissions to check security and probe their networks.
He used a lot of Lexis/Nexis time on "borrowed" accounts, and got into a lot of personal information on corporate networks.
I see him as repenting and pleading guilty and asking for forgiveness. There could be a book deal here, but he has to serve his time first.
First the moon, why we didn't put a moon base on there before I'll never know. Start mining missions to actually make some money off of it.
Build the Mars starship on the moon so it won't have to use as much fuel to reach escape velocity.
Cut down on the time to travel to Mars by inventing a better propellent system. Maybe Fusion Drives powered by Hydrogen? Provide a constant 1G acceloration and you can simulate gravity on the back end of the ship. Perhaps this will prevent the bone loss that happens in extended periods in weightlessness.
Create a base on Mars, launch ships to mine the asteroids for materials in short supply on Earth.
Maybe try to find oil on the moon or Mars?
To cut down on costs, NASA can have corporations commercialize space and use the corporations to launch ships to the moon and Mars. There would have to be a profit invovled, like bringing something back that can be sold.
Funny that I had no virus like activity after changing the max bandwidth of GNUcleus. If I had a DDOS Worm, it would still exist after the service was switched back on.
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I went to see it, instead I got a review of Pirates of the Caribbean.
Anyone got the real link? I would like to see it.
and bring back the original Macintosh case for 2004. Maybe make a few mods to it, like translucent plastic in 5 different colors. :)
:)
Use a G3 or G4 CPU and have it run OSX. Use a color 9 inch LCD screen. No floppy but DVD/CDRW drive. Price it low enough to be affordable, like $999USD or something. Would be nice if it was $700USD or lower to compete with the low cost WINTEL PC systems.
Ah well, at least that PC in a Mac Plus can run Darwin.
I assumed it was an link to the out of print book. Not the Atari Archives copy of the book. My mistake.
The library used to have it back in the 1980's but since the 1990's must have retired it.
I am not even sure if the company that published it is still in business.
A close as I can find it are these web sites:
http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
http://www.atariarchives.org/morebasicgames/
They are for the DEC BASIC language, but I am sure they can be easily converted to whatever BASIC you are using.
Well Lawyers have to pass bar exams, which is their own certifications. With most of the USA getting sue-happy, Lawyers are in high demand. :)
I could have gotten certified, but the IT market is shrinking in the USA. So instead I decided to change careers. I am now taking Business Management and I am earning a four year degree and then my MBA. Those will not expire like certifications.
True I might end up a PHB instead of a Dilbert, but at least I will have a job and not be another disposible employee. My computer knowledge will be an extra benefit, and I can manage an IT Department and know what I a doing, unlike a PHB.
Some people cannot afford the hardware upgrade to use the latest OS. Ah well there is always mp3.com and buymusic.com etc to buy music files from. Mp3.com was free, but they are reorganizing to a pay based system.
unless it states that the free music downloads are from iTunes and part of a 100M USD giveaway by Pepsi and Apple. A clever idea, to give songs away to create accounts and then when the giveaway is over, hopefully the people who created accounts will actually buy music at 99 cents per song.
:(
Pepsi and Apple are offering a free way to download music legally, as part of a promotion. Not telling people to use a file sharing app, but rather use iTunes.
A shame that iTunes only works with Windows 2000 and up. 98, 95, etc users are out of luck.
I think they are negotiating the rights to host it or something. It might be online later on in the year. I totally missed it, and did not view it yet. I am still trying to view the Cybermen "Real Time" episode when I find the time to finish it.
Point your browser at http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/webcasts/index .shtml and watch a webcast. I think you need Realplayer to view them.
that Doctor Who does not have its own Slashdot topic. What is up with that? :)
:)
26 seasons, wow, Tom Baker is my favorite Dr. Who actor. Favorite line "Harry Suluvan is an imbecile!" from when Harry tried to remove a bomb from Dr. Who's body that was rigged to explode if tampered with.
Or do you just suspect it is a violation? As many people said, Java byte code can be decompiled and compared to your code. If you did this and it matches, take the evidence to a lawyer who understands the GPL and take action. I suggest that if the offending company is selling the code as part of a closed source project that you ask for a percentage of those sales or at least that the company cease and desist from using your code.
Be very careful here because they can easily counter-sue you and overlawyer you if they are a bigger corporation. Your legal bills will run high and eventually you will have to settle out of court. Get a lawyer that does not get paid until you get paid and takes a small percentage of the settlement.
They talk big but they still have not proven that Linux code contains SCO IP. To quote a popular 1980's commercial "Where's the beef?" :)
I would like to use Linux, but many things are stopping me. One is concern over the SCO lawsuits, I won't explain the rest just yet.
So far I have not seen any evidence to back up SCO's claims. Why should I pay SCO for a Linux license when they cannot prove that I owe them for one?
This is not going to work, SCO is using scare tactics to force money out of Linux users and companies that produce Linux distrobutions. Anyone that pays SCO a Linux License will be used as evidence that others must pay as well.
SCO Unix is not the same as Linux, the issue is if Linux is using SCO Unix code which has not yet been proven anywhere.
What is the delay with SCO? If they had the hard evidence, certainly they would have produced evidence of it by now.
I guess those Scientists just created their replacements? Why outsource to India when a robot can do the job much cheaper? The robot also would not sleep, take vacations, complain, or require benefits. :)
:) Let the robot, which does not have a religion or opinions, do the work.
;)
Maybe we can finally get an unbiased opinion on the heated debate on Evolution verses Intelligent Design?
Just watch the robot carefully so that it does not create an army of robots that look like Arnold Schwarzenegger and build Skynet.
create a Spam filter that uses a dictionary that words can be added to. If a message has a certain percentage of unknown words in it, consider it possible Spam. Try to include every possible word in the language used for the dictionary.
If you are putting Windows 98 on a new system, you may not be able to get 98 drivers for it. A lot of OEMs seem to support 2000, XP, 2003, etc but not the older Windows 9X drivers. Good luck trying to get that USB 2.0 or Firewire driver. Hope your video card has a driver, if not use the VGA driver all the way.
You are giving the middle-finger to Microsoft and ignoring the EULA. Good thing they only audit large companies for software audits and not home consumers. Only way they can find out about it is if you call them for tech support and your hardware configuration has changed from the last time you called them and you have the same product key.
Also consider that 98 won't run the new Napster client or the Windows iTunes client. More software will come out that will require Windows 2000 or above to work.
My brother had bought some 200Mhz Pentium MMX laptops from eBay. His sons stepped on the screens and cracked them. He found a replacement part, paid some good money for it, and bought an IBM repair manual. The part did not work and obviously was designed for a different Thinkpad. The IBM repair of the Thinkpad would cost more than the price of buying one used on eBay.
So he gave them to me. I have a laptop just like it that works, but my son dropped it and damaged the hard drive. Same model Thinkpad. I often wanted to get a 9Gig drive for it and dual-boot Windows 98 and Linux on it. I've been to afraid to open it up and change out the hard drive without ruining something. Not the same as working on an ATX case.
The cracked screen Thinkpads can be used as a desktop with a monitor. They are sans CD-ROM, but I have a PCMCIA CD-ROM from my brother. Windows 98 got installed over a network, Windows 95 got installed first from a Zip Drive, and then an upgrade to 98 was done over a network shared CD-ROM.
No local shop will repair it, unless they are an IBM dealer and they will charge more than the laptop is worth.
they have a machine that cannot be upgraded to run Windows 2000 or XP. If they want to run 2000 or XP, they need to buy a brand new machine.
Ironically I still know people running Windows 3.X or Windows 95 or even DOS. They cannot afford to upgrade to a newer machine or newer software. They could; however, run Linux or *BSD Unix on their systems if they knew how. Not as fast as modern machines, but enough to limp along.
New machines can cost like $500USD to $600USD, and then they have to buy the modern software to run on them, as they cannot use the older software as the EULA usually does not allow them to switch it from one machine to another. Plus it may not run on the newer machine or use all the features.
An alternative is to head to Wal-Mart or some other place that sells a $400USD Lindows machine and use OpenOffice.Org etc. Then they need to be retrained for the new OS and software. Then use OSS software for everything else. This of course would require the assistance of someone like a Slashdotter who is Linux savvy and can train them.
Another alternative is to buy a used machine with 2000 or XP on it, or 2000/XP ready. Still the softare will need to be upgraded. The hardware costs will be less than the new machine.
Yet another alternative is if they have an ATX case, to just get a new ATX motherboard, CPU, Memory, and ATX power supply. Get an all-in-one motherboard with built in Video, Audio, LAN, Modem, etc. Like an NForce2 chipset motherboard. Still need to buy 2000/XP and the software upgrades. The hardware cost will be lower than a new machine, and may be lower than an used machine.
No matter what the option, the 98 user may have to buy new hardware to migrate to 2000/XP.
trust me, I've been to the brink of suicide and back. I've lost a friend to suicide. I've known sucidal people.
You do not want to do it, trust me on this. You have a lot of life left in you, do not throw it away.
While things appear hopeless, you can do something about it.
Get a book on parenting, learn to budget things. You don't have to buy your children toys all the time, try getting creative and give them a cardboard box to play with and crayons to draw on that box. Won't cost you much and keeps them happy.
Get a private detective to follow your wife around and get pictures. If you have proof of her cheating on you, get a divorse or confront her with the pictures.
You have writer's block, most likely caused by your depression. You need to take your mind off of things and do something fun. Or get an assistant to co-write the books with you and share credit. Share ideas with the assistant that you have, and observations you've made, and research results. You obvously have the knowledge and education, but seem to not have the writing skills.
You are not letting us down, you are; however, letting yourself down. You need to learn to forgive yourself, and deal with the issues in your life. Fight for it, I know you can.
MSOffice is priced too high, Israel understands this. Israel also understands that OpenOffice.org is a lot cheaper and can do much of the same things as MSOffice.
OpenOffice.Org should be ported to many different languages if it is to compete with MSOffice. I see this as a bold move to help bring about an alternative to MSOffice that is more affordable. I wonder if certain Software can be called Kosher? :)
I am reminded of China going with its own version of Linux and trying to develop an alternative to Windows from it. Will more countries get the guts to say "No" to Microsoft and use alternatives or make deals with other companies to create alternatives? I hope so.
This could be the start of a new trend. A movement away from MS products and towards alternatives like OSS products.
One factor not mentioned in the articles is Malware, Windows and MSOffice can easily be inflected by Malware but Linux and OpenOffice.Org are not infected by the same Malware. So there is a hidden cost to the TCO, if the Microsoft software gets infected with Malware. Consider a few hours of downtime to scrub the systems of the Malware infected on it.
but the law is the law. He thought he was helping out those companies, but he didn't get those compny's permissions to check security and probe their networks.
He used a lot of Lexis/Nexis time on "borrowed" accounts, and got into a lot of personal information on corporate networks.
I see him as repenting and pleading guilty and asking for forgiveness. There could be a book deal here, but he has to serve his time first.
of a new era in space flight/technology.
First the moon, why we didn't put a moon base on there before I'll never know. Start mining missions to actually make some money off of it.
Build the Mars starship on the moon so it won't have to use as much fuel to reach escape velocity.
Cut down on the time to travel to Mars by inventing a better propellent system. Maybe Fusion Drives powered by Hydrogen? Provide a constant 1G acceloration and you can simulate gravity on the back end of the ship. Perhaps this will prevent the bone loss that happens in extended periods in weightlessness.
Create a base on Mars, launch ships to mine the asteroids for materials in short supply on Earth.
Maybe try to find oil on the moon or Mars?
To cut down on costs, NASA can have corporations commercialize space and use the corporations to launch ships to the moon and Mars. There would have to be a profit invovled, like bringing something back that can be sold.
Not that I can recall. Once a line was capped, it stayed capped. It has a hardware thing.
Funny that I had no virus like activity after changing the max bandwidth of GNUcleus. If I had a DDOS Worm, it would still exist after the service was switched back on.