Even if this is true (doubtful to me, but I am NOT an expert), it's totally irrellevant.
The problem is idiots keep building massive structures over PROVEN ACTIVE faults. Even after whole cities are destroyed MANY TIMES OVER the lemmings among us rebuild. Look at Baam in Iran. This anchient city has been flattened and rebuilt on a regular basis. I don't speak the local language, but where did they get the name "Bam"???? from eyewitnesses to the FIRST QUAKE????? Another example is California, which is proof that God IS NOT blessing the USA. Why do I say that? Obviously He is upset at the way we treated the Mexicans, THAT is why the state has not broken off and sunk into the sea like the psychics have predicted in the grocery store rags every year. The only solution is to give it back to mexico, remove all evidence of white oppression like industry, moving the entire economy east, and after mexico moves in and God's grace is restored California will sink and we can rebuild the San Fransisco naval docks in Nevada thereby bringing a sufficient source of water to the great american desert.
By the way, if you think this is anything other than pushing the probable results of this study to an absolutely absurd conclusion you need to go back to getting your scientific evidence of batboy from the grocery store rags, lighten up and smile, there are too many people who forgot how.
They should simply be asked: Did you do your job to the best of your ability whether you agreed with management or not?
If they say yes, hire them, anyone that'll do a good job there will do a good one for you.
If they say no, I did my best to sabotage their antiGNU efforts show them the door and say thank you very much for taking your time to come down, then warn your buddies at lunch just in case the guy ever shows up at their business. If they have no more personal integrety than that you can't trust them enough to hire them, they'll do the same thing to you as soon as the coffee vender puts in a blend they don't like, their favorite candy is out at the machine, etc.
You hire people to get work done, not to go off on their own prima-donna crusades.
The problem for governments has nothing to do with new submissions. They can simply require the submission of the new format. Of course, it's MUCH easier to do that when you can give a copy of the software away for free - score one for open source.
The issue is access to legal archives. Legally you have to be able to access the archives in the original form without changing them (how would YOU like the IRS to edit your return every time they looked at it?). The issue of file conversion must be addressed. If the software won't do it PERFECTLY (close is not an option). Then you must pay to develop the conversion. Of course, again, open source has an advantage here, it's just not free as so many advertise.
Read the article. Israel is having to convert files from any and every file format you can imagine.
My point was that they WERE making the right choice going with OS software. What seems to be throwing you is that they're admitting that while OSS is the solution, it isn't perfect. As I said, it's cheap, but it's not free.
Actually, being able to freely give away a copy of the software you're requiring your submissions to be in is an advantage, but again, not free (you still have to burn the CDs). Still, it's cheaper than giving away MS Office to everyone.
Simple fact, open source software has major advantages. However, if we promote it as "free" we're lying. No project manager with any sense will believe it and a fine solution will wind up relegated to the fringe - again. Remember what happened to the Apple Macs when they promised far more than they delivered and its' promoters became "evangelists" for their "new truth". Apple is still trying to recover. Let's not repeat THAT mistake.
Despite the anti-jewish trolls (someone mod these jerks down PLEASE, this is a TECH page!!!!). The decision Israel made points out both advantage and disadvantages of OS like OpenOffice.org.
First, there are still compatibility issues. Although OpenOffice is a great office suite as is it still has problems converting from other formats. Therefore, even though it is free, government agencies that MUST access historical files in the original form do incur further expense in making an accurate file conversion.
Second, when you have a government agency that requires certain forms to be filled out electronically you have to make sure that the people filling out those forms have access to the programs to do this. This problem is exacerbated by the first concern previously mentioned.
Israel seems to have thought this through. That's why they're giving the disks away and also why they're biting the bullet and paying for properly converting the files (part of the installation process).
If OS software is going to ever really make any imprint in the government or any other institution we're going to have to be honest. OS may be cheap, but nothings truly free.
The way we travel, last minute, space available, hope you don't get bumped for emergency calls we're lucky to get on the same plane, much less the same seat row.
Occasionally I run into someone worth talking to, but since I often wind up next to the engines my AIWA noise-cancelling headphones, the plane easy listening channel, and a good book are about all that keep me sane (some might debate that).
Of course, flying that way does make for interesting connections. Last year I went from LA to Anchorage to Chicago to Denver to Washington to Atlanta to Pensacola. Needless to say when I got there I needed a hot meal and a shave desperately.
Absolutly, Price matters a lot, that's why I love it when references (the priciest books) come out in ebook form. I've got $170 invested in ebook references that cost around $1,300+ in paper (no joke, I looked 'em up on Amazon for fun, and that was the USED price). And guess what, all those books fit on one SDcard. That's part of knowing what the customer will buy, and I don't think the publishers have bothered to (generally speaking) check that out.
On the other hand I read "The Time Travelors' Wife" on a flight that went from Atlanta to Dallas To LA. Another Techhead that was with me TRIED to read "The Hobbit" on his Treo 600 but the obnoxious stewards/stewardess' kept making everyone turn their electronics on and off, and by the time we got to LA all Janson had was eyestrain from trying to read the screen in the bad cabin light.
I admit, I love my PDA, but at my age wearing progressive lenses it just isn't the right choice for reading "war and peace"
Best: Religion/Philosophy "The Divine Conspiracy" by Dallas Willard, able to rile up the pharasees in any denomination (lots of fun to watch). "A Theology of the New Testament" by George Eldon Ladd, A well presented, simple, consistant theology that is equally hated by those on the ultra conservative and ultra liberal wings who san "yes the bible sys that but.." "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren. A Little simplistic, but makes good points.
Political: "A National Party No More" - by Zell Miller. If the (national) Democrat Party would read this they might have a chance to regain their popularity.
Fiction: "Eragon" - Just in time for the Tolkien revival. "The Time Travelors Wife" - Fun exploration of time travel paradoxes, light reading.
Worst: Fiction: "The Davinci Code" - Just shows you can build bad fiction on long discredited forgeries.
History: "Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas" - Unbelievable fiction when written becomes the topic of scholarly discussion. Now you know what will happen to all those bad star wars and star trek novels 1700 years from now. "The Gospel of Mary Magdelene" - As above.
Political: "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" - A Comedian who made his reputation insulting everything pretends that spilling his bile on politics should be taken seriously. "Dude, Where's My Country" - A movie producer who writes scripts for scenes in documentaries and makes up things to put in them pretends he understood reality to begin with.
It's just that no one wanted what they offered. Look at the things that are the top sellers, they're mostly academic and reference books. Those things are PERFECT for electronic adaptation because they BEG for the search capability that the format provides. The thechinical specifics are pretty irrelevent.
But for pleasure reading nothing beats paper! You can get it in your choice of editions (Ever tried to read large type on a palm or pocketpc? You'll get half a sentence per screen.) The batteries never run out, the sun never washes out your screen (color) or "flash blinds" you (monochrome). The boot up is instentaneous, pick it up, turn to bookmark. You can even have it "on" during takeoff, you don't have to get freakin' permission from an anal-retentive control-freak stewardess to use it!
That being said nothing beats the 256mb reference library in my pocket when I need it.
The problem with the ebook crowd isn't the product, it's that they (act like they) don't know what their customers want. Microsoft was roundly derided for surveying LINUX users about what they liked. Other groups should take a cue from them. Maybe if the ebook publishers PRODUCED WHAT THEIR CUSTOMERS WANTED TO BUY they could sell something (notice that Microsoft mostly publishes SEARCHABLE REFERENCES)!
What a concept, ask the customer what he would buy-then sell it to him!
There are several "non-mouse" options you can try. Some trackballs make little or no "click" and there are several programs available for handicapped folks that let you use a joystick as a mouse, just get one that has no click on "fire".
In theory, that's right. However during audits I've conducted I've found the Linux users are (generally, not always) better at securing their systems. This does seem to be changing as some companies move Linux to the "desktop" arena and out of the control of competant administrators, however, as long as the bread and butter of Linux is in the server class area I'll stick with what I stated.
This is a really bad analysis, but he does stumble on the right conclusion (not apparently intentionally).
The simple fact that no one wants to admit to is that any UNIX based system has inherent vulnerabilities that have to be actively addressed by a competant admin level user to clean up. Most Mac users by admission are "creative people" not "ubergeeks" (and they're proud of it). Anyone that does system security audits with any level of competance will agree with this, if they don't it's either ignorance, ego, or incompetance.
Remember, the only worm to ever "crash" the internet was a sendmail exploit. All the zombified wintel boxes in the world combined have not caused the service interruptions of that baby.
No matter WHAT you call it a *nix box is the same as a wintel box, it requires more competance than the average user has to properly secure it. The only reason this may be moreso in the Mac arena than the Linux arena has nothing to do with the underlying system, it has everything to do with the average competance of the enduser those OSs are marketed to.
By the way, I DO like MAC OSX, works great on my churches graphics system.
I don't know what you mean by "burnout", but if you're overclocking that may be the cause, stick to motherboards that support it. Check out OVERCLOCKERS.COM or the chaintech line for some nice toys.
If you're actually cooking these things then you'll probably have the same problem with BOTH INTEL and AMD. INTEL certified cpu fans and power supplies tend to be beefier and move more air than the cheeper ones sold for AMD, but that's because you can usually cook eggs on pentiums. I try to keep systems I assemble to a case temperature of 75-90 degrees after 1 hour runtime. It seems to help all the systems but I've found pentiums tend to perform better when you add 2-3 fans to help. That one power supply fan just doesn't cut it.
Watch your airflow in the case also, the airflow should move over your chip location and not leave "dead air". An extra exhaust fan behind the chip pulling air out as well as a intake fan pulling air in the front should help. If you're using the new ULTRA ATA drives you might want to add drive coolers also. If the case is too jammed up with cables (like servers) try the new rounded cables, they really cut the case temp down.
You can check your runtime temp usually in the bios.
Good luck guy, hope the next chip you roast is idaho and not silicon.
I can't remember which one, but shortly after the founding of IBM and the sale of punch card systems to the IRS one of the founders stated there would only be a total market for 5 to 10 computers in the country.
My second is by Scott Mcnealy (sp?) and Larry Ellison who seem to take turns declairing that the personal computer is dead.
Wow, what perfect coordination. The National "DO NOT CALL" list goes into effect putting hundreds of telemarketers out of work. In the midst of a sudden flood of personnel and empty office space pre-wired for call reception Dell steps in to rescue the minimum wage talkers we all love to hate.
If you think you're rid of scripts and air-headed support you're missing the big picture.
This is nothing new, AOL has been messing with system files for so long it's ridiculous. I never minded them updating THEIR OWN software when a user logged on or off, that's resonable. A few years back they started messing with drivers and settings for video and sound cards. Most people never noticed since the drivers worked okay with generic VGA/SVGA systems, but if you had a high end card or one that relied on directx you'd find yourself in 640x480/16 colors on the next reboot. You could fix it by reinstalling the card, but the next time you logged onto AOL it hosed the card again. The sound problem wasn't as obvious, it just knocked ALL your sound down to the lowest possible quality (really sucked on a 5.1 sound system). The only answer was to swap services, which is hell getting AOL cancelled and then cleaned from the system anyway.
The positive side is that I made a lot of great free meals off friends that had the problem. Fix those and they'd pop for a steak quick! Looks like AOL is going to keep me well fed with the new version also.
Can you just imagine what could be done here. Let's be honest though, anything this good will immediately be taken over by the high-profit sector of medicine (just like the smut peddlers took over the web). The first application will be viagra knock-offs. The man could program it to dump everyday when he gets home, the woman could restrict it to once every other weekend. This could be the ultimate battle for the remote.
How Microsoft got into this I can't figure unless the poster is hoping to get modded up on MS bashing. Face it, Microsoft woouldn't want the liability. After all, a crash on one of these things gives "blue screen of death" a whole new meaning.
Hardware is just a means to an end. What needs to determine the operating system is the software they intend to run.
Knowing the software available for education that will likely be apple or microsoft platform (my wife is a teacher, I often wind up "volunteering" time with the school system to fix the idiotic schemes they come up with).
Quite frankly unless they're going to write a lot of their own software from scratch they'll probably wind up going with a microsoft solution. I've always liked apple, but they've never given the third-party software market as much support as microsoft, so guess what, there's comparitively little.
Realistically since these are 6th graders there is little reason to teach them any one platform at this time. By the time they reach 10th grade (job entry) windows, Mac os, and even linux will have changed so much they'll bear little resemblence to our "latest and greatest". The best we can hope is that they'll learn general principles they can apply to other software.
And another good question to freeze the brain cells of the teenie-bopper know-it-alls at CompUSA bites the dust. Not a one of them ever knew what Sys RQ or Scroll Lock or Break were for. Those were almost as good as asking the red shirt in laptops if they had IRDA ports (didn't have a clue).
At this rate all the shopping fun is gonna be gone.
It just hit me why SGI is important to SCOs' claims.
If the primary thrust of the SCO claims were on the IBM "leak" then only those kernal revisions affected by updates following the SCO-IBM code exchange would be affected. This would leave a huge number of kernal installations that "predate" the current kernal.
SGI has, in effect, with this press release given SCO a handle on those previous versions.
As I said before, this is only good for SCO and maybe the SGI lawyers who might get SGI off cheap while giving SCO what it really wants. Maybe mcbride is more devious than he looks.
I really can't believe the spin that is being put on this story. Essentially the story boils down to this: "we have looked at the *kernal* and found about 200 lines of offending code which have since been removed" - read - "we were sued for releasing copywrighted code under the gpl. We found 200 code lines we'll admit to and we're NOT TALKING ABOUT THE REST. We did it, we admit it, but we're not gonna admit to ALL of it until we hit court."
Can anyone see a big hook trolling for an out-of-court settlement? This a big neon "we're guilty as charged, can we negotiate" sign.
Actually her dorm HAS gigabit (newly installed cisco routers too). Her system only has a Siemens 100mbs card, something I'm going to correct on her birthday.
And yes, upteeunknown people CAN kill gigabit also.
Yeesh, this is one school that is ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING about the problem.
My Niece went to college this fall and her "100mb/s" connection in her dorm room was running slower than the 56k elcheapo modem we installed so she'd have fax/voiceline answering machine capability.
I checked her system (worked fine) then put my packet sniffer in the wall socket and it just about fried! The university support puppy tracked it down to some students shairing movie files.
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Even if this is true (doubtful to me, but I am NOT an expert), it's totally irrellevant.
The problem is idiots keep building massive structures over PROVEN ACTIVE faults. Even after whole cities are destroyed MANY TIMES OVER the lemmings among us rebuild. Look at Baam in Iran. This anchient city has been flattened and rebuilt on a regular basis. I don't speak the local language, but where did they get the name "Bam"???? from eyewitnesses to the FIRST QUAKE????? Another example is California, which is proof that God IS NOT blessing the USA. Why do I say that? Obviously He is upset at the way we treated the Mexicans, THAT is why the state has not broken off and sunk into the sea like the psychics have predicted in the grocery store rags every year. The only solution is to give it back to mexico, remove all evidence of white oppression like industry, moving the entire economy east, and after mexico moves in and God's grace is restored California will sink and we can rebuild the San Fransisco naval docks in Nevada thereby bringing a sufficient source of water to the great american desert.
By the way, if you think this is anything other than pushing the probable results of this study to an absolutely absurd conclusion you need to go back to getting your scientific evidence of batboy from the grocery store rags, lighten up and smile, there are too many people who forgot how.
They should simply be asked: Did you do your job to the best of your ability whether you agreed with management or not?
If they say yes, hire them, anyone that'll do a good job there will do a good one for you.
If they say no, I did my best to sabotage their antiGNU efforts show them the door and say thank you very much for taking your time to come down, then warn your buddies at lunch just in case the guy ever shows up at their business. If they have no more personal integrety than that you can't trust them enough to hire them, they'll do the same thing to you as soon as the coffee vender puts in a blend they don't like, their favorite candy is out at the machine, etc.
You hire people to get work done, not to go off on their own prima-donna crusades.
The problem for governments has nothing to do with new submissions. They can simply require the submission of the new format. Of course, it's MUCH easier to do that when you can give a copy of the software away for free - score one for open source.
The issue is access to legal archives. Legally you have to be able to access the archives in the original form without changing them (how would YOU like the IRS to edit your return every time they looked at it?). The issue of file conversion must be addressed. If the software won't do it PERFECTLY (close is not an option). Then you must pay to develop the conversion. Of course, again, open source has an advantage here, it's just not free as so many advertise.
Read the article. Israel is having to convert files from any and every file format you can imagine.
My point was that they WERE making the right choice going with OS software. What seems to be throwing you is that they're admitting that while OSS is the solution, it isn't perfect. As I said, it's cheap, but it's not free.
Actually, being able to freely give away a copy of the software you're requiring your submissions to be in is an advantage, but again, not free (you still have to burn the CDs). Still, it's cheaper than giving away MS Office to everyone.
Simple fact, open source software has major advantages. However, if we promote it as "free" we're lying. No project manager with any sense will believe it and a fine solution will wind up relegated to the fringe - again. Remember what happened to the Apple Macs when they promised far more than they delivered and its' promoters became "evangelists" for their "new truth". Apple is still trying to recover. Let's not repeat THAT mistake.
Despite the anti-jewish trolls (someone mod these jerks down PLEASE, this is a TECH page!!!!). The decision Israel made points out both advantage and disadvantages of OS like OpenOffice.org.
First, there are still compatibility issues. Although OpenOffice is a great office suite as is it still has problems converting from other formats. Therefore, even though it is free, government agencies that MUST access historical files in the original form do incur further expense in making an accurate file conversion.
Second, when you have a government agency that requires certain forms to be filled out electronically you have to make sure that the people filling out those forms have access to the programs to do this. This problem is exacerbated by the first concern previously mentioned.
Israel seems to have thought this through. That's why they're giving the disks away and also why they're biting the bullet and paying for properly converting the files (part of the installation process).
If OS software is going to ever really make any imprint in the government or any other institution we're going to have to be honest. OS may be cheap, but nothings truly free.
The way we travel, last minute, space available, hope you don't get bumped for emergency calls we're lucky to get on the same plane, much less the same seat row.
Occasionally I run into someone worth talking to, but since I often wind up next to the engines my AIWA noise-cancelling headphones, the plane easy listening channel, and a good book are about all that keep me sane (some might debate that).
Of course, flying that way does make for interesting connections. Last year I went from LA to Anchorage to Chicago to Denver to Washington to Atlanta to Pensacola. Needless to say when I got there I needed a hot meal and a shave desperately.
Absolutly, Price matters a lot, that's why I love it when references (the priciest books) come out in ebook form. I've got $170 invested in ebook references that cost around $1,300+ in paper (no joke, I looked 'em up on Amazon for fun, and that was the USED price). And guess what, all those books fit on one SDcard. That's part of knowing what the customer will buy, and I don't think the publishers have bothered to (generally speaking) check that out.
On the other hand I read "The Time Travelors' Wife" on a flight that went from Atlanta to Dallas To LA. Another Techhead that was with me TRIED to read "The Hobbit" on his Treo 600 but the obnoxious stewards/stewardess' kept making everyone turn their electronics on and off, and by the time we got to LA all Janson had was eyestrain from trying to read the screen in the bad cabin light.
I admit, I love my PDA, but at my age wearing progressive lenses it just isn't the right choice for reading "war and peace"
My suggestions (not in any order)
Best:
Religion/Philosophy
"The Divine Conspiracy" by Dallas Willard, able to rile up the pharasees in any denomination (lots of fun to watch).
"A Theology of the New Testament" by George Eldon Ladd, A well presented, simple, consistant theology that is equally hated by those on the ultra conservative and ultra liberal wings who san "yes the bible sys that but.."
"The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren. A Little simplistic, but makes good points.
Political:
"A National Party No More" - by Zell Miller. If the (national) Democrat Party would read this they might have a chance to regain their popularity.
Fiction:
"Eragon" - Just in time for the Tolkien revival.
"The Time Travelors Wife" - Fun exploration of time travel paradoxes, light reading.
Worst:
Fiction:
"The Davinci Code" - Just shows you can build bad fiction on long discredited forgeries.
History:
"Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas" - Unbelievable fiction when written becomes the topic of scholarly discussion. Now you know what will happen to all those bad star wars and star trek novels 1700 years from now.
"The Gospel of Mary Magdelene" - As above.
Political:
"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" - A Comedian who made his reputation insulting everything pretends that spilling his bile on politics should be taken seriously.
"Dude, Where's My Country" - A movie producer who writes scripts for scenes in documentaries and makes up things to put in them pretends he understood reality to begin with.
Of course, this is all up to taste.
It's just that no one wanted what they offered. Look at the things that are the top sellers, they're mostly academic and reference books. Those things are PERFECT for electronic adaptation because they BEG for the search capability that the format provides. The thechinical specifics are pretty irrelevent.
But for pleasure reading nothing beats paper! You can get it in your choice of editions (Ever tried to read large type on a palm or pocketpc? You'll get half a sentence per screen.) The batteries never run out, the sun never washes out your screen (color) or "flash blinds" you (monochrome). The boot up is instentaneous, pick it up, turn to bookmark. You can even have it "on" during takeoff, you don't have to get freakin' permission from an anal-retentive control-freak stewardess to use it!
That being said nothing beats the 256mb reference library in my pocket when I need it.
The problem with the ebook crowd isn't the product, it's that they (act like they) don't know what their customers want. Microsoft was roundly derided for surveying LINUX users about what they liked. Other groups should take a cue from them. Maybe if the ebook publishers PRODUCED WHAT THEIR CUSTOMERS WANTED TO BUY they could sell something (notice that Microsoft mostly publishes SEARCHABLE REFERENCES)!
What a concept, ask the customer what he would buy-then sell it to him!
There are several "non-mouse" options you can try. Some trackballs make little or no
"click" and there are several programs available for handicapped folks that let you use a joystick as a mouse, just get one that has no click on "fire".
Just bet you never thought Elroy Jetson would beat out Star Wars, first robots sweeping the carpet (ala Rosie) and now REAL SCIENCE PROJECTS!!!!!!!
Next comes the ejection-bed alarm system!
In theory, that's right. However during audits I've conducted I've found the Linux users are (generally, not always) better at securing their systems. This does seem to be changing as some companies move Linux to the "desktop" arena and out of the control of competant administrators, however, as long as the bread and butter of Linux is in the server class area I'll stick with what I stated.
Actually, that's what I said, the ANALYSIS was bad but he stumbles on the right conclusion (it seems totally by accident).
This is a really bad analysis, but he does stumble on the right conclusion (not apparently intentionally).
The simple fact that no one wants to admit to is that any UNIX based system has inherent vulnerabilities that have to be actively addressed by a competant admin level user to clean up. Most Mac users by admission are "creative people" not "ubergeeks" (and they're proud of it). Anyone that does system security audits with any level of competance will agree with this, if they don't it's either ignorance, ego, or incompetance.
Remember, the only worm to ever "crash" the internet was a sendmail exploit. All the zombified wintel boxes in the world combined have not caused the service interruptions of that baby.
No matter WHAT you call it a *nix box is the same as a wintel box, it requires more competance than the average user has to properly secure it. The only reason this may be moreso in the Mac arena than the Linux arena has nothing to do with the underlying system, it has everything to do with the average competance of the enduser those OSs are marketed to.
By the way, I DO like MAC OSX, works great on my churches graphics system.
I don't know what you mean by "burnout", but if you're overclocking that may be the cause, stick to motherboards that support it. Check out OVERCLOCKERS.COM or the chaintech line for some nice toys.
If you're actually cooking these things then you'll probably have the same problem with BOTH INTEL and AMD. INTEL certified cpu fans and power supplies tend to be beefier and move more air than the cheeper ones sold for AMD, but that's because you can usually cook eggs on pentiums. I try to keep systems I assemble to a case temperature of 75-90 degrees after 1 hour runtime. It seems to help all the systems but I've found pentiums tend to perform better when you add 2-3 fans to help. That one power supply fan just doesn't cut it.
Watch your airflow in the case also, the airflow should move over your chip location and not leave "dead air". An extra exhaust fan behind the chip pulling air out as well as a intake fan pulling air in the front should help. If you're using the new ULTRA ATA drives you might want to add drive coolers also. If the case is too jammed up with cables (like servers) try the new rounded cables, they really cut the case temp down.
You can check your runtime temp usually in the bios.
Good luck guy, hope the next chip you roast is idaho and not silicon.
I can't remember which one, but shortly after the founding of IBM and the sale of punch card systems to the IRS one of the founders stated there would only be a total market for 5 to 10 computers in the country.
My second is by Scott Mcnealy (sp?) and Larry Ellison who seem to take turns declairing that the personal computer is dead.
Wow, what perfect coordination. The National "DO NOT CALL" list goes into effect putting hundreds of telemarketers out of work. In the midst of a sudden flood of personnel and empty office space pre-wired for call reception Dell steps in to rescue the minimum wage talkers we all love to hate.
If you think you're rid of scripts and air-headed support you're missing the big picture.
This is nothing new, AOL has been messing with system files for so long it's ridiculous. I never minded them updating THEIR OWN software when a user logged on or off, that's resonable. A few years back they started messing with drivers and settings for video and sound cards. Most people never noticed since the drivers worked okay with generic VGA/SVGA systems, but if you had a high end card or one that relied on directx you'd find yourself in 640x480/16 colors on the next reboot. You could fix it by reinstalling the card, but the next time you logged onto AOL it hosed the card again. The sound problem wasn't as obvious, it just knocked ALL your sound down to the lowest possible quality (really sucked on a 5.1 sound system). The only answer was to swap services, which is hell getting AOL cancelled and then cleaned from the system anyway.
The positive side is that I made a lot of great free meals off friends that had the problem. Fix those and they'd pop for a steak quick! Looks like AOL is going to keep me well fed with the new version also.
Can you just imagine what could be done here. Let's be honest though, anything this good will immediately be taken over by the high-profit sector of medicine (just like the smut peddlers took over the web). The first application will be viagra knock-offs. The man could program it to dump everyday when he gets home, the woman could restrict it to once every other weekend. This could be the ultimate battle for the remote.
How Microsoft got into this I can't figure unless the poster is hoping to get modded up on MS bashing. Face it, Microsoft woouldn't want the liability. After all, a crash on one of these things gives "blue screen of death" a whole new meaning.
Hardware is just a means to an end. What needs to determine the operating system is the software they intend to run.
Knowing the software available for education that will likely be apple or microsoft platform (my wife is a teacher, I often wind up "volunteering" time with the school system to fix the idiotic schemes they come up with).
Quite frankly unless they're going to write a lot of their own software from scratch they'll probably wind up going with a microsoft solution. I've always liked apple, but they've never given the third-party software market as much support as microsoft, so guess what, there's comparitively little.
Realistically since these are 6th graders there is little reason to teach them any one platform at this time. By the time they reach 10th grade (job entry) windows, Mac os, and even linux will have changed so much they'll bear little resemblence to our "latest and greatest". The best we can hope is that they'll learn general principles they can apply to other software.
And another good question to freeze the brain cells of the teenie-bopper know-it-alls at CompUSA bites the dust. Not a one of them ever knew what Sys RQ or Scroll Lock or Break were for. Those were almost as good as asking the red shirt in laptops if they had IRDA ports (didn't have a clue).
At this rate all the shopping fun is gonna be gone.
It just hit me why SGI is important to SCOs' claims.
If the primary thrust of the SCO claims were on the IBM "leak" then only those kernal revisions affected by updates following the SCO-IBM code exchange would be affected. This would leave a huge number of kernal installations that "predate" the current kernal.
SGI has, in effect, with this press release given SCO a handle on those previous versions.
As I said before, this is only good for SCO and maybe the SGI lawyers who might get SGI off cheap while giving SCO what it really wants. Maybe mcbride is more devious than he looks.
I really can't believe the spin that is being put on this story. Essentially the story boils down to this: "we have looked at the *kernal* and found about 200 lines of offending code which have since been removed" - read - "we were sued for releasing copywrighted code under the gpl. We found 200 code lines we'll admit to and we're NOT TALKING ABOUT THE REST. We did it, we admit it, but we're not gonna admit to ALL of it until we hit court."
Can anyone see a big hook trolling for an out-of-court settlement? This a big neon "we're guilty as charged, can we negotiate" sign.
This does nothing but help SCO in the long run.
Actually her dorm HAS gigabit (newly installed cisco routers too). Her system only has a Siemens 100mbs card, something I'm going to correct on her birthday. And yes, upteeunknown people CAN kill gigabit also.
Yeesh, this is one school that is ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING about the problem.
My Niece went to college this fall and her "100mb/s" connection in her dorm room was running slower than the 56k elcheapo modem we installed so she'd have fax/voiceline answering machine capability.
I checked her system (worked fine) then put my packet sniffer in the wall socket and it just about fried! The university support puppy tracked it down to some students shairing movie files.
I'm emailing this story to them.