1. For one thing my monitor nearly shattered from the torrent of flood that was flowing into #billennium. I live in Houston, and yet I've never seen that much flood in my life.
2. At the very instant the clock rolled over, I got an error message from Ximian Evolution. I think I ought to file this one under bugzilla...
This is a very interesting question, and immediately IBM pops up in my mind. With IBM's recent wave of support and effort put into the Linux OS, I wonder if embracing the Linux operating system would give HP-Compaq a stronger competitive position against IBM. Neither HP nor Compaq has put any significant effort into this OS in the past, and they may well lag behind IBM's development efforts, including products like WebSphere. Perhaps they might find it more profitable to rely on the solutions they have for the most viable of their existing OSes and then work on merging technologies.
"We sent an e-mail inquiry to AOL-Time-Warner's Netscape division spokesperson, Catherine Corre about the lay-offs..." Oh no, the big media dinosaur ate the puny mozilla lizard!
Applying the laws of discrete mathematics, this would imply that the story is redundant and mozilla was never really free software after all...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but compounds containing Arsenic are poisonous to human beings (and probably plants and animals, too.) Isn't this a classic case of a gilded technological breakthrough where the deadly environmental effects are not realized until almost too late? I mean, with the vast amount of computer hardware being used in the world today, there's bound to be problems in a few years...
And why are you complaining? Am I the only slashdotter who gets annoyed while having to wade through tons of offensive posts, swear words and off-topic material just to get to the stuff I want to read?
Sometimes we need to realize that censorship gives greater liberty to those who would use it aright. You seem to propose anarchy here. I personally praise the Slashdot editors for granting us the freedom to read what we need to read without having to wade through tons of crap.
First off, let me say that I am among those who believe that the XFree86 project has become bloated to the point of being grossly inefficient.
That said, Berlin looks like a nice, promising idea, but the feeling I get from their web site and the screenshots I've seen is that this is still a fledgling project that is getting all excited about the wrong things. It seems to me that the developers are far more excited about 3d rotating windows and alpha channel transparencies than actually producing a functional, reliable graphical user interface. Much of that stuff is good and I know a lot of X users have been looking for features like these for a while, but if this project is to gather any momentum, they need to concentrate on more important issues like speed and stability. One thing I would like to see them do, for example is find a more efficient solution to X's complex network client/server layers which I believe are wonderful but have a significant speed cost. When that happens, I'll start thinking of trying it out on my PC.
Finally I can dump Ximian Evolution's Palm sync support and download my schedule through a slice of hot toast instead. I guess this is where technology meets breakfast...
"For instance, do people really want a unique address for a refrigerator -- allowing hackers to spy on individual eating habits -- or order you a truckload of milk?"
Oh my God - what if my fridge got DoS attacked? Or Code Red? We would all go hungry for days on end!
It's ironic, but it's cool
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NYSE Goes To Linux
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I guess it becomes interesting now that one of the nation's largest financial institutions is running on free software. I think this is going to make a very powerful case for open source software in both small and large businesses, and even in market places where big money is traded. It means that finally the big guys are beginning to realize that stability and reliability are more important than unstable fads and fuds. (note my pathetic pun).
Oh yes, for the sake of redundancy, I will repeat that earlier post: All your investments are belong to us!
Are these cards called smart because somebody put a little electrical circuit in them, or is there a lot more going on with these "smart" credit cards than the average consumer knows? Credit cards are have always been evil - luring innocent and naive consumers and sinking them in irrecoverable debt. Perhaps they've just gotten cleverer at that.
Since IBM has successfully made a NOT gate out of a single molecule, they have made about 1/3 progress towards realizing a complete computer system made out of molecules. In fact, if they could make NAND gates out of these nanotubes, then they have everything they need to build a computing system since a NAND gate is functionally complete. Question is, does this mean that in the near future, the government will be able to implant invisible microchips in people for identification and tracking purposes, and what does this mean? Is this a bad thing looming in the future?
1. Galeon looks gorgeous on my pc, with the gtk+ theme I use. At least 10 times more beautiful than Opera. Mozilla looks nice, but I personally think Galeon's interface is a lot more functional than Mozilla's.
2. He failed to mention tabbed browsing. Opera, Skipstone and Galeon support this, and it is an awesome feature. Saves many a mouse drag and click and trouble.
3. Galeon's SmartBookmarks are way better than any similar feature in any other browser, including IE. It is really convenient to be able to search rpmfind.net or Freshmeat, or look up a word in the dictionary straight from the main window without having to waste extra time browsing to the site first.
So I personally think Galeon has a definite edge over Opera (which is not free, and sometimes takes an annoyingly long time to finish loading a page because of some little counter at the bottom). I wouldn't call it that close.
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By my projections, by that time all existing 32bit computers will be in a museum somewhere, which would promptly go out of business...
1. For one thing my monitor nearly shattered from the torrent of flood that was flowing into #billennium. I live in Houston, and yet I've never seen that much flood in my life.
2. At the very instant the clock rolled over, I got an error message from Ximian Evolution. I think I ought to file this one under bugzilla...
This is a very interesting question, and immediately IBM pops up in my mind. With IBM's recent wave of support and effort put into the Linux OS, I wonder if embracing the Linux operating system would give HP-Compaq a stronger competitive position against IBM. Neither HP nor Compaq has put any significant effort into this OS in the past, and they may well lag behind IBM's development efforts, including products like WebSphere. Perhaps they might find it more profitable to rely on the solutions they have for the most viable of their existing OSes and then work on merging technologies.
"We sent an e-mail inquiry to AOL-Time-Warner's Netscape division spokesperson, Catherine Corre about the lay-offs..."
Oh no, the big media dinosaur ate the puny mozilla lizard!
Applying the laws of discrete mathematics, this would imply that the story is redundant and mozilla was never really free software after all...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but compounds containing Arsenic are poisonous to human beings (and probably plants and animals, too.) Isn't this a classic case of a gilded technological breakthrough where the deadly environmental effects are not realized until almost too late? I mean, with the vast amount of computer hardware being used in the world today, there's bound to be problems in a few years...
Oh no. The First Church of Digital Grepping is becoming a government agency now?
And why are you complaining? Am I the only slashdotter who gets annoyed while having to wade through tons of offensive posts, swear words and off-topic material just to get to the stuff I want to read?
Sometimes we need to realize that censorship gives greater liberty to those who would use it aright. You seem to propose anarchy here. I personally praise the Slashdot editors for granting us the freedom to read what we need to read without having to wade through tons of crap.
#include <romeo.h>
#include <juliet.h>
#include <performance.h>
int main(void *scene) {
enter(_romeo + _juliet);
printf("Behold, thou seest the world");
exeunt(romeo);
exeunt(juliet);
render(theatre);
}
First off, let me say that I am among those who believe that the XFree86 project has become bloated to the point of being grossly inefficient.
That said, Berlin looks like a nice, promising idea, but the feeling I get from their web site and the screenshots I've seen is that this is still a fledgling project that is getting all excited about the wrong things. It seems to me that the developers are far more excited about 3d rotating windows and alpha channel transparencies than actually producing a functional, reliable graphical user interface. Much of that stuff is good and I know a lot of X users have been looking for features like these for a while, but if this project is to gather any momentum, they need to concentrate on more important issues like speed and stability. One thing I would like to see them do, for example is find a more efficient solution to X's complex network client/server layers which I believe are wonderful but have a significant speed cost. When that happens, I'll start thinking of trying it out on my PC.
Mayday, mayday, XComputer_Man to Slashdot: do you copy? Still no response.
Finally I can dump Ximian Evolution's Palm sync support and download my schedule through a slice of hot toast instead. I guess this is where technology meets breakfast...
Error parsing story: cyclic redundancy check
"For instance, do people really want a unique address for a refrigerator -- allowing hackers to spy on individual eating habits -- or order you a truckload of milk?"
Oh my God - what if my fridge got DoS attacked? Or Code Red? We would all go hungry for days on end!
I guess it becomes interesting now that one of the nation's largest financial institutions is running on free software. I think this is going to make a very powerful case for open source software in both small and large businesses, and even in market places where big money is traded. It means that finally the big guys are beginning to realize that stability and reliability are more important than unstable fads and fuds. (note my pathetic pun).
Oh yes, for the sake of redundancy, I will repeat that earlier post: All your investments are belong to us!
Are these cards called smart because somebody put a little electrical circuit in them, or is there a lot more going on with these "smart" credit cards than the average consumer knows? Credit cards are have always been evil - luring innocent and naive consumers and sinking them in irrecoverable debt. Perhaps they've just gotten cleverer at that.
Since IBM has successfully made a NOT gate out of a single molecule, they have made about 1/3 progress towards realizing a complete computer system made out of molecules. In fact, if they could make NAND gates out of these nanotubes, then they have everything they need to build a computing system since a NAND gate is functionally complete. Question is, does this mean that in the near future, the government will be able to implant invisible microchips in people for identification and tracking purposes, and what does this mean? Is this a bad thing looming in the future?
4 points for that post, wrinkled shirt. 4 points!
I liked this guy's review, except:
1. Galeon looks gorgeous on my pc, with the gtk+ theme I use. At least 10 times more beautiful than Opera. Mozilla looks nice, but I personally think Galeon's interface is a lot more functional than Mozilla's.
2. He failed to mention tabbed browsing. Opera, Skipstone and Galeon support this, and it is an awesome feature. Saves many a mouse drag and click and trouble.
3. Galeon's SmartBookmarks are way better than any similar feature in any other browser, including IE. It is really convenient to be able to search rpmfind.net or Freshmeat, or look up a word in the dictionary straight from the main window without having to waste extra time browsing to the site first.
So I personally think Galeon has a definite edge over Opera (which is not free, and sometimes takes an annoyingly long time to finish loading a page because of some little counter at the bottom). I wouldn't call it that close.