High profile sites like Linuxcare are important for those of us pushing to get linux into our companies. Suits don't care a small pile of fetid dingo kidneys about how technically capable an OS is.
What they want to know is "will my email go through?" Cost isn't the issue. But support is. Having high profile support organisations you can point the bean counters at is very important.
Not long ago, Sweeney had a post on the unreal tech page where he ranted and ranted about how great D3D and Microsoft tools are.
That's because they are. I've evaulated Linux development tools for my company, and while I'm impressed with how far they've come in relativly a short period of time, they don't come close to Microsoft's devleopment environments.
Visual C++ is a great product. The compiler produces better code than any other compiler on the market. There is a chess program called Crafty, and it runs on Windows and Linux (amoung other platforms). Somebody ran the Win32 version up under WINE on linux, and it was about 10 to 15% faster.
You might rightfully complain about Microsoft's tatitcs in the market, but their development tools are about the best in the world.
Provided you run Windows 9x. No NT, Win2000 or support for any other operating system.
Not exactly useful to most people here, I'd think. It's a great sounding concept, but too limited in scope of OS support to gain any wide spread acceptance I'd think.
(Note: I might have got this story a bit wrong in places.. I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention, and "Today Tonight" isn't known for accurate reporting, anyway)
No... I believe it's still under the mistaken impression it's a real current affairs type show.
Well, I'm impressed. And as a result of the NYT showing some balls and actual journalism, I'm going to break a long standing promise to myself and register with their site.
Well there you go. It seems I'm wrong. Good for Chuck then. You and a couple of others have pointed out that what he really wants is to have greater control of his music, and sees Napster as a vehicle for this. But from reading the statement the/. story pointed too, all I got out of it is that he's happy the big record companies are upset.
Goes to show there is often more to a story than initially seems.
<carl mode> I think I've learned something today.</carl mode>
or the fact that he believes Napster is sticking it to the Man? It seemed to me that he was happier the big coperations were upset, than by the free sharing of music. I mean, I didn't notice any of his songs available for download on his web site.
It seems that the Napster crew have made a bigger splash than I thought, because Chuck D was saying that it was talked about during a music convension.
Australia has our net censor laws, requiring ISPs to block sites officially listed as offensive, the US has the current idioticy regarding DMCA, deCSS, etc, and now the UK is diving in with the most oppressive crytpo privacy laws imaginable and then this!
I know the law makers and Those Who Consider Themselves Very Important are worried about this new medium called the internet (God Bless Quale for inventing it!), but there seems to be a global over reaction.
I'm still waiting for one country to trade in their Get a Free Clue card, and actually ask those of us involved in it for ideas on how to make it work - how to balance legal requirements for privacy and accountability with freedom to express.
I wish the Outcast crew all the best. Let's hope they don't have to visit the last resort for such situations - moving their servers off shore.
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I knew about the deregulation, but I didn't know about the September thing. That's very interesting. Hopefully small business in WA can stop being stuck behind modems and actually use the internet for *gasp* business! What a concept.
Thanks for the info - good news! I wonder if I'm able to get it where I am, in the northern suburbs.
Time to make a few phone calls and find out!
Catch ya.
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but being stuck here in Western Australia, DSL is still something our telco's are investigating.
<points madly at the USA> LOOK! IT WORKS! I'm expecting it to take another couple of years before we can get this technology you lucky few take for granted. And even then I'll bet we'll all be paying a fortune for it.
I don't know if I'd be brave enough to try that homebrew thing though.
Typical. Just as I'm planning on setting up a linux desktop.
On the other hand, who the heck are they?? Never heard of them, so I doubt I'll miss 'em. Another propritary chat server - oh joy. I'm sure the 10's of thousands of us who use Regular IRC won't miss them at all.
And anyway, where would IRC be without a good old fashioned channel takeover.
TV is about all you'll get out of it. Mabye I should have been more specific. They have cable tv here in Perth, but not internet infrastructure to go with it, and have none planned in the future.
because at the moment, there are two companies suppling cable access in Australia, Telstra and Optus. Neither provide cable in Western Australia, and in fact, I've had Telstra sales reps say they have no plans in the future to bring them here either. Wonderful, not. I work for a software firm, and we need this bandwidth. Highspeed access here in WA is very expensive, and completly out of range for a home user. Both offer satalite access, but it's damn expensive. Optus quoted me $1500 for the dish, and on top of that, I need a normal internet connection.
I'm so sick of waiting for these two companies to get their act together. It's gotten to the point where I don't care what Telstra and Optus do in the future, they're not getting my business at any cost.
although I can imagine the first round of test subjects tearing off their own face as they scratch their nose or breaking their leg as they swat a bug on their knee.
It's just such a cool idea. How about a macho looking one for those romantic evenings at home with the misses wouldn't go astray either. Or a beafy one to take down the pub and tear the bouncer a new orifice. The possibilities are endless!!
When I first reviewed Linux for the company I work for, KDevelop was one of the two or three products that pushed this microsoft camp into the "Yeah - Linux looks good". Since I became an Old Phart, I've become addicted to IDE's.
Ok.. You're in a super huge mega computer store, with everything a/. geek could want. You're about to be stranded on a desert island for the rest of your life. You have 15 SECONDS LEFT in the real world!
Quick! Who do you kill:
Bill Gates
The DVD Copy Control dude who started this whole stupid mess
Donny and Marrie Osmond
That little idiot from Home Alone
The person/persons who created the TV show "The Nanny"
My other question is:
Where you one of those social misfits who laughed when ET died? (it's a cool way to get smacked by a perfect stranger - neat huh)
It's not really the first go. The anti-scientology have been doing this sort of thing for years now. We've had a few successes, and a few failures. Xenu has all the gossip on that.
Some dude and Mattle have been butting heads for a while, and if memory serves me, the people who make barbie were most annoyed at the barbie morph page.
But onwards we all go. This isn't the first time, and is no way gonna be the last.
I read the list of defendants, and a few of them aren't living in the USA. How can they be sued in a US court? As an Australian, I'm subject to Australian law, not US law. Or have I missed something obvious?
Try and keep in mind that this is an organisation that brought the IRS down. The mighty government department caved in, and made all sorts of secret deals, just to keep them away. Judges have asked to be removed from cases, rather than suffer the harrasement that comes from being involved with them. Their war chest is in the millions, and they have around a 100 lawyers on their staff. No normal organisation can compete with that, and the individual is completly destroyed by them. Has the drug taking Hubbard said, "Never defend - always attack." And they do.
I've been a critic of Scientology for about two years now. I'm lucky that I'm in Perth, Western Australia. The scientology popluation here is small enough that I can say what I want on my web site and not be subjected to the abuses that critics in other parts of the world are. And that is my main complaint about the organisation. You could stand in front of Billy Grahem or the Pope and critise them to their face, but speak out against Scientology, and they'll try their damnest to crusify you. Check out the story of Paulette Cooper. She wrote a book about them, and according to the web page, the Church of Scientology tried to forge a bomb threat against Henry Kissinger in Cooper's name. This plan has become known as "Operation Freakout". It's real, and it's happening to people all around the world right now. Andea is a very public example of what's happening to a lot of people all around the world.
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High profile sites like Linuxcare are important for those of us pushing to get linux into our companies. Suits don't care a small pile of fetid dingo kidneys about how technically capable an OS is.
What they want to know is "will my email go through?" Cost isn't the issue. But support is. Having high profile support organisations you can point the bean counters at is very important.
Not long ago, Sweeney had a post on the unreal tech page where he ranted and ranted about how great D3D and Microsoft tools are.
That's because they are. I've evaulated Linux development tools for my company, and while I'm impressed with how far they've come in relativly a short period of time, they don't come close to Microsoft's devleopment environments.
Visual C++ is a great product. The compiler produces better code than any other compiler on the market. There is a chess program called Crafty, and it runs on Windows and Linux (amoung other platforms). Somebody ran the Win32 version up under WINE on linux, and it was about 10 to 15% faster.
You might rightfully complain about Microsoft's tatitcs in the market, but their development tools are about the best in the world.
Provided you run Windows 9x. No NT, Win2000 or support for any other operating system.
Not exactly useful to most people here, I'd think. It's a great sounding concept, but too limited in scope of OS support to gain any wide spread acceptance I'd think.
(Note: I might have got this story a bit wrong in places.. I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention, and "Today Tonight" isn't known for accurate reporting, anyway)
No... I believe it's still under the mistaken impression it's a real current affairs type show.
Well, I'm impressed. And as a result of the NYT showing some balls and actual journalism, I'm going to break a long standing promise to myself and register with their site.
Good on 'em, I say.
Actually this happens to me a lot, but I've been advised that if I keep it up, eventually I'll eat the wrong mushroom and Bad Things will happen.
Well there you go. It seems I'm wrong. Good for Chuck then. You and a couple of others have pointed out that what he really wants is to have greater control of his music, and sees Napster as a vehicle for this. But from reading the statement the /. story pointed too, all I got out of it is that he's happy the big record companies are upset.
Goes to show there is often more to a story than initially seems.
<carl mode> I think I've learned something today.</carl mode>
or the fact that he believes Napster is sticking it to the Man? It seemed to me that he was happier the big coperations were upset, than by the free sharing of music. I mean, I didn't notice any of his songs available for download on his web site.
It seems that the Napster crew have made a bigger splash than I thought, because Chuck D was saying that it was talked about during a music convension.
That's him. I'm not really the full bottle on American politicians. :)
Australia has our net censor laws, requiring ISPs to block sites officially listed as offensive, the US has the current idioticy regarding DMCA, deCSS, etc, and now the UK is diving in with the most oppressive crytpo privacy laws imaginable and then this!
I know the law makers and Those Who Consider Themselves Very Important are worried about this new medium called the internet (God Bless Quale for inventing it!), but there seems to be a global over reaction.
I'm still waiting for one country to trade in their Get a Free Clue card, and actually ask those of us involved in it for ideas on how to make it work - how to balance legal requirements for privacy and accountability with freedom to express.
I wish the Outcast crew all the best. Let's hope they don't have to visit the last resort for such situations - moving their servers off shore.
I knew about the deregulation, but I didn't know about the September thing. That's very interesting. Hopefully small business in WA can stop being stuck behind modems and actually use the internet for *gasp* business! What a concept.
Thanks for the info - good news! I wonder if I'm able to get it where I am, in the northern suburbs.
Time to make a few phone calls and find out!
Catch ya.
but being stuck here in Western Australia, DSL is still something our telco's are investigating.
<points madly at the USA> LOOK! IT WORKS! I'm expecting it to take another couple of years before we can get this technology you lucky few take for granted. And even then I'll bet we'll all be paying a fortune for it.
I don't know if I'd be brave enough to try that homebrew thing though.
Typical. Just as I'm planning on setting up a linux desktop.
On the other hand, who the heck are they?? Never heard of them, so I doubt I'll miss 'em. Another propritary chat server - oh joy. I'm sure the 10's of thousands of us who use Regular IRC won't miss them at all.
And anyway, where would IRC be without a good old fashioned channel takeover.
TV is about all you'll get out of it. Mabye I should have been more specific. They have cable tv here in Perth, but not internet infrastructure to go with it, and have none planned in the future.
because at the moment, there are two companies suppling cable access in Australia, Telstra and Optus. Neither provide cable in Western Australia, and in fact, I've had Telstra sales reps say they have no plans in the future to bring them here either. Wonderful, not. I work for a software firm, and we need this bandwidth. Highspeed access here in WA is very expensive, and completly out of range for a home user. Both offer satalite access, but it's damn expensive. Optus quoted me $1500 for the dish, and on top of that, I need a normal internet connection.
I'm so sick of waiting for these two companies to get their act together. It's gotten to the point where I don't care what Telstra and Optus do in the future, they're not getting my business at any cost.
although I can imagine the first round of test subjects tearing off their own face as they scratch their nose or breaking their leg as they swat a bug on their knee.
It's just such a cool idea. How about a macho looking one for those romantic evenings at home with the misses wouldn't go astray either. Or a beafy one to take down the pub and tear the bouncer a new orifice. The possibilities are endless!!
When I first reviewed Linux for the company I work for, KDevelop was one of the two or three products that pushed this microsoft camp into the "Yeah - Linux looks good". Since I became an Old Phart, I've become addicted to IDE's.
Sheesh. So much for trying to have a sense of humor.
Quick! Who do you kill:
Bill Gates
The DVD Copy Control dude who started this whole stupid mess
Donny and Marrie Osmond
That little idiot from Home Alone
The person/persons who created the TV show "The Nanny"
My other question is:
Where you one of those social misfits who laughed when ET died? (it's a cool way to get smacked by a perfect stranger - neat huh)
It's not really the first go. The anti-scientology have been doing this sort of thing for years now. We've had a few successes, and a few failures. Xenu has all the gossip on that.
Some dude and Mattle have been butting heads for a while, and if memory serves me, the people who make barbie were most annoyed at the barbie morph page.
But onwards we all go. This isn't the first time, and is no way gonna be the last.
I read the list of defendants, and a few of them aren't living in the USA. How can they be sued in a US court? As an Australian, I'm subject to Australian law, not US law. Or have I missed something obvious?
when you drifting in space between Mars and Earth, who goes to get the orange juice afterwards?
Try and keep in mind that this is an organisation that brought the IRS down. The mighty government department caved in, and made all sorts of secret deals, just to keep them away. Judges have asked to be removed from cases, rather than suffer the harrasement that comes from being involved with them. Their war chest is in the millions, and they have around a 100 lawyers on their staff. No normal organisation can compete with that, and the individual is completly destroyed by them. Has the drug taking Hubbard said, "Never defend - always attack." And they do.
I've been a critic of Scientology for about two years now. I'm lucky that I'm in Perth, Western Australia. The scientology popluation here is small enough that I can say what I want on my web site and not be subjected to the abuses that critics in other parts of the world are. And that is my main complaint about the organisation. You could stand in front of Billy Grahem or the Pope and critise them to their face, but speak out against Scientology, and they'll try their damnest to crusify you. Check out the story of Paulette Cooper. She wrote a book about them, and according to the web page, the Church of Scientology tried to forge a bomb threat against Henry Kissinger in Cooper's name. This plan has become known as "Operation Freakout". It's real, and it's happening to people all around the world right now. Andea is a very public example of what's happening to a lot of people all around the world.