This machine is being positioned as the ulitmate boot legger. Apple's page is talking about dvd-ram and digital camera's and the ultimate cimematic experience.
I can just see it now, an army of people in theatres with their digital camera's going home and uploading it directly to their computer and burning it on vcd or better yet(for Apple that is)onto a dvd-ram in Quick Time format.
Unisys is in the right. They do not use free software, so they have every right to charge for there's. It may be a real pain that they own the patent, but you have to remember that they paid for it too. On the other hand, if they used free software, one could get upset. I think the Linux Advocacy HOWTO should be read by everyone that flamed Unisys; it may not be Linux but alot of it applies here.
The previous segment was just a test of the obfuscated RFC document system. Had this been a real RFC you would not have heard the beep or painfully screams.
I do technical support for a medium sized ISP in Canada and the problem quite often is a lack of communication between the technical support staff and the customer. But, often, it is the customers' stupidity. The is a big difference between not knowing something and being stupid. The stupid ones are the ones who think they know what they're doing and refuse to listen. You tell then to go to point x and they go to point m. They then try to guess what you are saying because they're screen does not correspond to your directions. Also, there are quite a few people who do not know the alphabet. I believe Illiad said it best in a recent User Friendly comic strip.
tech: Now please enter your password sir. Type "C" as in "Charlie" customer: Uhh..don't you mean "C" as in "Computer?" tech: ???... tech: No NO, You need to use the "C" as in "Charlie" or it won't work. customer: Jeepers, these computer things sure are tricky.
Why pay $100,000 US for an 8 way Intel system when one can get a Sun Box with the possibility of more CPU's, a proper bus, and just as many applications. When I say applications, I mean the kind (High end db, video... )that people with this kind of money and need use.
This is one of the better contests that I have seen. It not only awards for correctness, but creativity. If you get into a small team with some creative peolple you could win and not even be the fastest. Also, contests like this help promote CS amoung peolple who normally do not think of themselves as programmers.
Why shouldn't it coun't. If i am running a production system, it should not go down for any reason. I'm sure MS has the knowledge to setup a Win2K box properly. It must come down to my second pet peive of Windows, you have to reboot to change anything; number one being that it crashes so often. The Linux box, on the other hand, has had services turn on and off but it remains up and strong. They are actually turning on services until someone cracks one (if that happens).
I am an ex-caffeen adict and before I quit (I drank diet-coke) I was upto 10L a day. That is equivilant to about 28cans. Now take me and a small town, city of about 100,000 people. In one day thats 2.8 million cans. Therefore it would take just under 3 days. Now take a large city with say 10million people and book a large stadium for 4 days. say it holds 70,000 people. if you fill it, say get a band or two. All of them buy pepsi. You could get 7,000,000 points with ease. just a theory:)
on some far off planet: Hey Zig look at this . . . hmmm Interesting.
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3 galactic years later: Zig why do I keep getting this message offering a chance to make 50,000 a year. . ..Where did you say this came from, "Earth", ok lets just stop this now.
on some far off planet: Hey Zig look at this . . . hmmm Interesting. . . . 3 galactic years later: Zig why do I keep getting this message offering a chance to make 50,000 a year. . ..Where did you say this came from, "Earth", ok lets just stop this now.
ZAP!!!!!!!! By by earth
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This doesn't happen under Linux. Partly because the only code that doesn't really work is marked that way eg odd version 2.3.x as apposed to 2.2.x. Also, if the driver did crash, the driver crashes. I am assuming it is a module unless they release the code, but even then it can be modular. In that case rmmod linmodem;insmod linmodem . done crash fixed.
This would be cool. It'll make good use of all those piggy banks. Just replace those pennies with little mini-disks and instead of 5 dollars in pennies I have 87 Terabits of storage:)
Why would the American government pass such a law? Could it be the billions of dollars that software companies put in their g-string pocket books and there just giving the paying customer a good time. Once again, the U.S. gives me another good reason not to move to the U.S. from Canada. It may be cold sometimes and we may be taxed, but we can say anything we want in anyway to anyone (e.g. no stupid crypto laws). Also a software company doesn't have the right to disable my software on a whim. This is only going to help open source software(Yeh!) and hurt the closed software vendors. The laws are supposed to protect us, not give companies the right to remove my license because I have a competing product (It will happen, the article reffers to reverse engineering. If company A believes company B reverse engineered their product they can remotely shut down there software)
I just would like to correct one point. You state that one cannot do phone support for Unix when it crashes, untrue. I have done support for Linux over the phone and the fact is that the interface is consistent and does not change from version to version, like Windows. Also, a crash in Unix/Linux/whatever almost never takes the whole system down. I can telnet in and repair it without the user having to do anything.
What reason will there be to buy an Intel IA-64 chip when the major reason business' buy Intel is backwards compatability. I will be able to get a 64-bit Alpha chip that not only outperforms but is cheaper than a 64-bit Intel. The reason people kept buying Intel is backwards compatability, and while this still maybe true it is irrelivant. The people buying 64-bit processors are usually corporate customers with large databases in mind. So unless, maybe you just want a kick ass game box, why would one buy it when there are far better solutions through other vendors.
IF MS includes a web browser in every Windows 2000, could this be a lead up to another antitrust suit? The US government loves to spend money, anyways.
One option that would still allow anonymous postings, and possibly speed up the display of comments too is to group all the anonymous postings under one thread. This way the anonymous postings get the credit they deserve. If they want to hide behind anonimity let them hide togethor.
I was about to give up drinking Coke until I read this. I average about 5-10L a day and now I read its not just a waste of money but insurance into my coding future. I can now survive the radiation coming from my CRT.:)
I have a 486/33 -8Mb Ram Linux box that acts as a ip masquerader, ssh server, telnet, ftp that has no video card or keyboard most of the time. It is possible with the 2.2.x kernel to turn on serial consol only now. So I don't see why any special hardware is needed. A side note however, you might want to change the default inittab and runlevel so that is doesn't spawn getty/mgetty to consol.
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One could use slirp via telnet on an existing PPP or ethernet connection to make two distinc networks appear to be local to your slirp host.
This machine is being positioned as the ulitmate boot legger. Apple's page is talking about dvd-ram and digital camera's and the ultimate cimematic experience.
I can just see it now, an army of people in theatres with their digital camera's going home and uploading it directly to their computer and burning it on vcd or better yet(for Apple that is)onto a dvd-ram in Quick Time format.
Unisys is in the right. They do not use free software, so they have every right to charge for there's. It may be a real pain that they own the patent, but you have to remember that they paid for it too. On the other hand, if they used free software, one could get upset. I think the Linux Advocacy HOWTO should be read by everyone that flamed Unisys; it may not be Linux but alot of it applies here.
The previous segment was just a test of the obfuscated RFC document system. Had this been a real RFC you would not have heard the beep or painfully screams.
I repeat this is only a test.
I do technical support for a medium sized ISP in Canada and the problem quite often is a lack of communication between the technical support staff and the customer. But, often, it is the customers' stupidity. The is a big difference between not knowing something and being stupid. The stupid ones are the ones who think they know what they're doing and refuse to listen. You tell then to go to point x and they go to point m. They then try to guess what you are saying because they're screen does not correspond to your directions. Also, there are quite a few people who do not know the alphabet. I believe Illiad said it best in a recent User Friendly comic strip.
:)
tech: Now please enter your password sir. Type "C" as in "Charlie"
customer: Uhh..don't you mean "C" as in "Computer?"
tech: ???...
tech: No NO, You need to use the "C" as in "Charlie" or it won't work.
customer: Jeepers, these computer things sure are tricky.
THIS HAPPENDS
Why pay $100,000 US for an 8 way Intel system when one can get a Sun Box with the possibility of more CPU's, a proper bus, and just as many applications. When I say applications, I mean the kind (High end db, video. .. )that people with this kind of money and need use.
:)
my 2cents
Three words, Fear Uncertainty Doubt
This is one of the better contests that I have seen. It not only awards for correctness, but creativity. If you get into a small team with some creative peolple you could win and not even be the fastest. Also, contests like this help promote CS amoung peolple who normally do not think of themselves as programmers.
Why shouldn't it coun't. If i am running a production system, it should not go down for any reason. I'm sure MS has the knowledge to setup a Win2K box properly. It must come down to my second pet peive of Windows, you have to reboot to change anything; number one being that it crashes so often.
The Linux box, on the other hand, has had services turn on and off but it remains up and strong. They are actually turning on services until someone cracks one (if that happens).
my 2 cents
I am an ex-caffeen adict and before I quit (I drank diet-coke) I was upto 10L a day. That is equivilant to about 28cans. Now take me and a small town, city of about 100,000 people. In one day thats 2.8 million cans. Therefore it would take just under 3 days. Now take a large city with say 10million people and book a large stadium for 4 days. say it holds 70,000 people. if you fill it, say get a band or two. All of them buy pepsi. You could get 7,000,000 points with ease. just a theory :)
on some far off planet: Hey Zig look at this . . . hmmm Interesting.
.Where did you say this came from, "Earth", ok lets just stop this now.
.
.
.
3 galactic years later: Zig why do I keep getting this message offering a chance to make 50,000 a year. . .
ZAP!!!!!!!! By by earth
on some far off planet: Hey Zig look at this . . . hmmm Interesting. .Where did you say this came from, "Earth", ok lets just stop this now.
.
.
.
3 galactic years later: Zig why do I keep getting this message offering a chance to make 50,000 a year. . .
ZAP!!!!!!!! By by earth
This doesn't happen under Linux. Partly because the only code that doesn't really work is marked that way eg odd version 2.3.x as apposed to 2.2.x. Also, if the driver did crash, the driver crashes. I am assuming it is a module unless they release the code, but even then it can be modular. In that case rmmod linmodem;insmod linmodem . done crash fixed.
This would be cool. It'll make good use of all those piggy banks. Just replace those pennies with little mini-disks and instead of 5 dollars in pennies I have 87 Terabits of storage :)
Why would the American government pass such a law? Could it be the billions of dollars that software companies put in their g-string pocket books and there just giving the paying customer a good time. Once again, the U.S. gives me another good reason not to move to the U.S. from Canada. It may be cold sometimes and we may be taxed, but we can say anything we want in anyway to anyone (e.g. no stupid crypto laws). Also a software company doesn't have the right to disable my software on a whim. This is only going to help open source software(Yeh!) and hurt the closed software vendors. The laws are supposed to protect us, not give companies the right to remove my license because I have a competing product (It will happen, the article reffers to reverse engineering. If company A believes company B reverse engineered their product they can remotely shut down there software)
I just would like to correct one point. You state that one cannot do phone support for Unix when it crashes, untrue. I have done support for Linux over the phone and the fact is that the interface is consistent and does not change from version to version, like Windows. Also, a crash in Unix/Linux/whatever almost never takes the whole system down. I can telnet in and repair it without the user having to do anything.
Other than that I agree.
What reason will there be to buy an Intel IA-64 chip when the major reason business' buy Intel is backwards compatability. I will be able to get a 64-bit Alpha chip that not only outperforms but is cheaper than a 64-bit Intel. The reason people kept buying Intel is backwards compatability, and while this still maybe true it is irrelivant. The people buying 64-bit processors are usually corporate customers with large databases in mind. So unless, maybe you just want a kick ass game box, why would one buy it when there are far better solutions through other vendors.
I meant web server, sorry :)
IF MS includes a web browser in every Windows 2000, could this be a lead up to another antitrust suit? The US government loves to spend money, anyways.
One option that would still allow anonymous postings, and possibly speed up the display of comments too is to group all the anonymous postings under one thread. This way the anonymous postings get the credit they deserve. If they want to hide behind anonimity let them hide togethor.
One side note, I wonder if this applies to microwave radiation too, with all the cell phones out there we're all going to dye of brain tumors.
I was about to give up drinking Coke until I read this. I average about 5-10L a day and now I read its not just a waste of money but insurance into my coding future. I can now survive the radiation coming from my CRT. :)
I have a 486/33 -8Mb Ram Linux box that acts as a ip masquerader, ssh server, telnet, ftp that has no video card or keyboard most of the time. It is possible with the 2.2.x kernel to turn on serial consol only now. So I don't see why any special hardware is needed. A side note however, you might want to change the default inittab and runlevel so that is doesn't spawn getty/mgetty to consol.