Callas is not a jerk. He's a personal friend of mine from the VMS days. I saw him a few weeks ago at the RSA Conference in Europe. I don't know what your beef is, but it's obviously something childish. Jon is a nice guy. Always has been, always will.
Can we get back to NASA looking UP and OUT and let NOAA handle looking IN and AROUND?
Personally, I want NASA to come up with good spacecraft and ways to foster getting those spacecraft up cheaper and faster. I'd prefer to let NOAA concentrate on things like global warming and CO2 impact.
>'it's got to get the final tier of reliability and >predictability that I'm going to bet a multi-billion >dollar corporation's future on.'"
If you're going to do that, then you should be using OpenVMS. But I digress.
Betting a multi-billion $ company on any one platform is a risky (to ones career) venture. It's no surprise, however, that "You won't get fired for buying Microsoft" worked in this case.
I read their web page and the technology sounds remarkably like FX!32 from the DEC Alpha days, or at least where FX!32 was headed before Compaq and Microsoft pulled Windows 2000 on Alpha.
It's loud enough here in the cubefarm with one person bitching about her car and another talking about someones kids. We don't need speech recognition. There's a reason that only those who are disabled use it.
....a Metacity theme that would work well on an 800x600 display. (it's a laptop, it's paid for, it runs Linux quite well with the exception of Metacity/GTK's insistance on using HUGE buttons)
FWIW, XP looks and runs fine. If I could just get the same sizing, this laptop would be rid of the Microsoft scurge. Believe me, I'm SO feckin' fed up with MS.
... I'd be happy just finding a theme for Metacity that would work well in 800x600. My old Dell LS400 only does 800x600 and when running Linux, the buttons are HUGE and everything is drawn too big.
Still, I'll give this a try:) I'm a sucker for stuff like this.
If Firefox was available (from mozilla.org) in a Windows installer (.MSI) format and settings could be made using policies, you'd see a rapid increase in corporate desktops moving to Firefox.
Windows admins want to be able to install Firefox on ALL their desktops, with extensions pre-installed and the settings (optionally) controlled via system policies.
This should be goal #1 for 1.1 of Firefox and Thunderchicken. The brower is great. Now lets banish IE from the corporate Windows desktop. (Then the migrate to Linux will be that much easier)
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That's because Jimmy Doohan was Canadian.
At the risk of wiping out all my good Karma....
Callas is not a jerk. He's a personal friend of mine from the VMS days. I saw him a few weeks ago at the RSA Conference in Europe. I don't know what your beef is, but it's obviously something childish. Jon is a nice guy. Always has been, always will.
Can we get back to NASA looking UP and OUT and let NOAA handle looking IN and AROUND?
Personally, I want NASA to come up with good spacecraft and ways to foster getting those spacecraft up cheaper and faster. I'd prefer to let NOAA concentrate on things like global warming and CO2 impact.
DEC had "The Network is the System" painted on its trucks in the 80's. I was there from '80 to '98.
I wonder how much Best Buy donated to Bart in good faith for all his hard work?
That would be pretty unfair to Dead and Phish fans...
>'it's got to get the final tier of reliability and
>predictability that I'm going to bet a multi-billion
>dollar corporation's future on.'"
If you're going to do that, then you should be using OpenVMS. But I digress.
Betting a multi-billion $ company on any one platform
is a risky (to ones career) venture. It's no surprise, however, that "You won't get fired for buying Microsoft" worked in this case.
...we called these VT100's. :)
DECnet and LAT are seperate protocols and DECnet doesn't run over LAT (unless using serial DECnet but that's a worst-case senario!)
LAT is more akin to NETBEUI in that it's a non-routeable protocol that's great for character-cell terminals and remote serial connections.
I also worked in the Networks and Communications group at DEC before going to the VMS group.
Just download SimH and run your VAX on your Mac Mini then. Get a Hobby license for VMS and the compilers and knock yourself out.
I managed the systems in the VMS Development Group in the late 80's/early 90's. I still manage some VMS systems on a contract basis.
That makes me wonder. Run a CPU intensive app on a laptop in the space station. When the fan kicks in, it could propel itself!
:)
That would be fun to watch.
>What the fuck are you? A maid?
How about a plumber or a carpenter? Last time I looked, in the Boston area anyways, they made a damned good living.
Home IT is the Information Age's plumber. It's a trade. Whether you like that or not, that's what it is.
I have a full-time job as a marketing engineer but after I move, I'll be doing this "trade" to make extra money. And I won't be embarrassed one bit.
I think I'll pass on the TaunTaun, thanks.
I read their web page and the technology sounds remarkably like FX!32 from the DEC Alpha days, or at least where FX!32 was headed before Compaq and Microsoft pulled Windows 2000 on Alpha.
It's loud enough here in the cubefarm with one person bitching about her car and another talking about someones kids. We don't need speech recognition. There's a reason that only those who are disabled use it.
...the name of a tranny stripper..
Eeesh...
....a Metacity theme that would work well on an 800x600 display. (it's a laptop, it's paid for, it runs Linux quite well with the exception of Metacity/GTK's insistance on using HUGE buttons)
FWIW, XP looks and runs fine. If I could just get the same sizing, this laptop would be rid of the Microsoft scurge. Believe me, I'm SO feckin' fed up with MS.
... I'd be happy just finding a theme for Metacity that would work well in 800x600. My old Dell LS400 only does 800x600 and when running Linux, the buttons are HUGE and everything is drawn too big.
:) I'm a sucker for stuff like this.
Still, I'll give this a try
...I should boot up my VAX and pull off the years of DEC email (sans spam TYVM) I have stored on there.
If you new anything about these types of certifications, you'd know that software is tied with hardware as a certified package.
We may not care for that, but that's the way these things go.
More than likely, you cannot load OS9 on it.
There's no support in the OS for the hardware more than likely.
ARGH...
.nee. Alpha Processor Inc. The company that Samsung "ran".
Read my lips. Alpha is DEAD. Expired. Pining for the fjords.
Samsung has ZERO interest in investing in it any further. They'll keep making them only as long as HP buys them, not one day longer.
Jesus, it's over people. Almost all the Alpha developers are working in either Hudson, MA for Intel or Boxboro, MA for AMD.
How do I know? I worked at DEC for 18 years. Then at API Networks
If Intel had just gotten over the Not Invented Here syndrome and ponied up enough money, Alpha would still be going. But they didn't.
Repeat after me, Alpha is Dead.
Sheesh.
And if they want to make big inroads into the Windows world, they need an msi-based installer and group policy support.
Get those two and you'll see FF installed corporate-wide in ALOT of companies.
I understand that this work is happening, but it's been quiet on the FF forums lately.
Don't use Real. Use Real Alternative.
I've been using it for quite some time now and it plays Real video better than Reals own application, without all the spyware shite.
Make sure you install the plugin during the installation.
....to take over the corporate Windows browser.
If Firefox was available (from mozilla.org) in a Windows installer (.MSI) format and settings could be made using policies, you'd see a rapid increase in corporate desktops moving to Firefox.
Windows admins want to be able to install Firefox on ALL their desktops, with extensions pre-installed and the settings (optionally) controlled via system policies.
This should be goal #1 for 1.1 of Firefox and Thunderchicken. The brower is great. Now lets banish IE from the corporate Windows desktop. (Then the migrate to Linux will be that much easier)