The method of delivery is a bit newer - a few months ago it all got a lot more efficiently delivered - it's pretty mainstream knowledge, even this article from the paper edition of SC Magazine talks about it - and their copy deadlines will be from weeks ago.
According to the c't article, the problems centre on:
Resistance among the user base (people don't like change)
Vast number of different applications/suppliers to work with
Lack of support from on-high
None of these problems are specific to linux - but rather to any attempt to introduce change on massive scale. Nowhere are they saying that "linux doesn't work"
Now if there was a nice "low cost" i.e. competitive with Intel/AMD platform for an individual developer then that could really seed the development environment and get things going.
Even if IBM have to ship at cost, it would be a very good thing.
They are a bit quicker than most of the Diesel Intercity trains which go at 125 Mph (Intercity 125). But not as fast as the brand new trains on the high speed link to the channel tunnel.
Of course, in these days of crashes and litigation, they daren't go faster than about 100mph in practice.
Either way, you wouldn't be able to keep up in a car.
The East Coast Mainline runs roughly along the same route as the A1 - which is a 70mph road for far bits of its length. But not that close in that many places. Not sure about north of Edinburgh...
Len Brown is the ACPI System Maintainer. He receives many patches from many people. Puts them together, reviews them and incorporates them in his ACPI oriented kernel. They are then tested by the ACPI interested people. When Len is happy, features that are suitable for 2.4 (e.g. maintenances is preferred over completely rewrite etc). are sent to the 2.4 kernel maintainer - Marcelo Tossati.
I suspect it is simply an inaccurancy in Marcelo's logging system - all the ACPI changes have been ascribed to Len Brown - rather than the people who sent them to him.
U - user (authorization) id
I - authentication id
P - password
R - realm
M - list of mechanisms delimited by spaces
Or you could RTFM http://www.sendmail.org/m4/smtp_auth.html
Mmmm... I switched a 386 box from SCO to Linux back in 1994/1995. Linux was far better even way back then. I wanted "diald" to do on demand dialing and have a ppp stack instead of manually using cu and slattach or whatever - because we had just got our modem based internet connection in November 1994.
Moral: It was the internet that did for SCO. Linux is a child of the internet - the perfect internet operating system - developed on, with and for the internet.
What Nintendo games? I can only see spectrum games on the website, which were almost always tape based.
Show me a link to a Nintendo game on the site - otherwise I am pretty sceptical. I suspect that you may be as guilty of rushing in without checking the facts first as the the Lawyer from the main story - which is surely the moral here.
P.S. Donkey Kong may have originally appeared in the arcades on a Nintendo machine, put in the case of the spectrum, the Donky Kong game was published by Ocean and even then written by someone else - so just because it is called "Donky Kong" doesn't mean that it has anything to do, in copyright terms, with Nintendo (although the name Donky Kong may have been licensed from Nintendo at some point).
1) $ onsgmls -v -s -E 2 http://yourwebsite.com. There are many validators for SGML and XML out there.
2) You really don't know much about programming. A program is a way of automating repetitive tasks. For example, the production of valid web pages based on some changing data might be a good example of a program.
All of this is, I am pretty sure, well known if not self evident... I can't decide if you are -1 Troll or +1 Funny. Certainly it is the funniest posting I have read in a while.
It isn't built on top of the browser.. it is built on some of the the same building blocks that Mozilla is built on. Perhaps the most important is XUL (XML User Interface Language).
So rather than using KDE/QT or GTK+ or Motif or whatever it is using XUL and a load of other technologies to create the interface, widgets, look and feel and whatever.
The intention is to create a relatively clear and simple user interface that can be used for key tasks but also lends itself to "kiosk" type applications - for example embedded systems such as set top boxes.
They aren't necessarily trying to come up with a completely new general purpose desktop system but one which is appropriate for a, potentially, significant niche - set top boxes, internet kiosks and so on. They hope to make money by flogging the system to OEMs
... You *must* get your spelling checker fixed...I assume you meant "...a huge box of beagles". Last time I tried this nobody got any work done for 3 days.
I'm not sure that comparing market share with Windows or Mac OS is really that relevant.
For starters, it is an apples and pears comparison. It would be better to ignore any machine that is running the OS it came installed with - just measure those machines where people have actively sought out a newer operating system.
Even then - the amount of advertising spent by Microsoft and Mac - together with secondary advertising from all the magazines hyping the various OS upgrades could also distort the picture.... and by far outweigh the amount of advertising for Linux distributions. Has anyone seen a main stream advert for Linux that isn't about using it as a server OS?
However, in recent times we are seeing much more attention on Linux as a desktop. Four years ago the question would have been "is Linux dead?" Now it is simply accepted that Linux has a place in the OS landscape. So the fact that the question "is the Linux desktop dead?" is being asked is perhaps signifcant in itself.
Finally, we seem to have an increasing number of "pure play" linux as desktop operating systems - Lycoris being just one example... Lindows being another. How many were there two years ago?
Of course, as I am quite happily using Linux and a Desktop Operating System - and each day it gets better, means that it isn't dead - it might only just have been born!
Three cheers for Lycoris - they look to have done a very good job.
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The attack is ancient.
The method of delivery is a bit newer - a few months ago it all got a lot more efficiently delivered - it's pretty mainstream knowledge, even this article from the paper edition of SC Magazine talks about it - and their copy deadlines will be from weeks ago.
- Resistance among the user base (people don't like change)
- Vast number of different applications/suppliers to work with
- Lack of support from on-high
None of these problems are specific to linux - but rather to any attempt to introduce change on massive scale. Nowhere are they saying that "linux doesn't work"http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=news.bbc .co.uk
Obviously, example.com should be swapped for you own particular domain name.
Now if there was a nice "low cost" i.e. competitive with Intel/AMD platform for an individual developer then that could really seed the development environment and get things going.
Even if IBM have to ship at cost, it would be a very good thing.
Of course, in these days of crashes and litigation, they daren't go faster than about 100mph in practice.
Either way, you wouldn't be able to keep up in a car.
The East Coast Mainline runs roughly along the same route as the A1 - which is a 70mph road for far bits of its length. But not that close in that many places. Not sure about north of Edinburgh...
Len Brown is the ACPI System Maintainer. He receives many patches from many people. Puts them together, reviews them and incorporates them in his ACPI oriented kernel. They are then tested by the ACPI interested people. When Len is happy, features that are suitable for 2.4 (e.g. maintenances is preferred over completely rewrite etc). are sent to the 2.4 kernel maintainer - Marcelo Tossati.
I suspect it is simply an inaccurancy in Marcelo's logging system - all the ACPI changes have been ascribed to Len Brown - rather than the people who sent them to him.
You can find out about the UK's digital transmitters here.
Of course, DVB is just an output format.. DTT (digital terrestrial tv) is a way of delivering DVB).
I thought it was a good pun, if that's any consolation - and would have given you +1 funny if I had any points.
..Well, I got 20/20 in 180 seconds.
..so now what? (does everyone get 20/20?)
U - user (authorization) id
I - authentication id
P - password
R - realm
M - list of mechanisms delimited by spaces
Or you could RTFM http://www.sendmail.org/m4/smtp_auth.html
... but I think I'll stick with "more" for looking at the kernel sources for now.
Moral: It was the internet that did for SCO. Linux is a child of the internet - the perfect internet operating system - developed on, with and for the internet.
Show me a link to a Nintendo game on the site - otherwise I am pretty sceptical. I suspect that you may be as guilty of rushing in without checking the facts first as the the Lawyer from the main story - which is surely the moral here.
P.S. Donkey Kong may have originally appeared in the arcades on a Nintendo machine, put in the case of the spectrum, the Donky Kong game was published by Ocean and even then written by someone else - so just because it is called "Donky Kong" doesn't mean that it has anything to do, in copyright terms, with Nintendo (although the name Donky Kong may have been licensed from Nintendo at some point).
Instead of posting a CD through your letter box, they could just post the whole computer!
... Now I'm just waiting for a pedantic post from the "It's not Its Guy".
Three Kids
1) $ onsgmls -v -s -E 2 http://yourwebsite.com. There are many validators for SGML and XML out there.
2) You really don't know much about programming. A program is a way of automating repetitive tasks. For example, the production of valid web pages based on some changing data might be a good example of a program.
All of this is, I am pretty sure, well known if not self evident... I can't decide if you are -1 Troll or +1 Funny. Certainly it is the funniest posting I have read in a while.
I want them to support standards like HTML, XHTML, CSS and so on.
Then the sites will work with any current or future client technology that also supports those standards.
Nowadays, there is no reason why your site should not be valid
You can eat pizza but you can't shave while sat at your keyboard staring at the screen.
So rather than using KDE/QT or GTK+ or Motif or whatever it is using XUL and a load of other technologies to create the interface, widgets, look and feel and whatever.
The intention is to create a relatively clear and simple user interface that can be used for key tasks but also lends itself to "kiosk" type applications - for example embedded systems such as set top boxes.
They aren't necessarily trying to come up with a completely new general purpose desktop system but one which is appropriate for a, potentially, significant niche - set top boxes, internet kiosks and so on. They hope to make money by flogging the system to OEMs
... You *must* get your spelling checker fixed. ..I assume you meant "...a huge box of beagles". Last time I tried this nobody got any work done for 3 days.
For starters, it is an apples and pears comparison. It would be better to ignore any machine that is running the OS it came installed with - just measure those machines where people have actively sought out a newer operating system.
Even then - the amount of advertising spent by Microsoft and Mac - together with secondary advertising from all the magazines hyping the various OS upgrades could also distort the picture.... and by far outweigh the amount of advertising for Linux distributions. Has anyone seen a main stream advert for Linux that isn't about using it as a server OS?
However, in recent times we are seeing much more attention on Linux as a desktop. Four years ago the question would have been "is Linux dead?" Now it is simply accepted that Linux has a place in the OS landscape. So the fact that the question "is the Linux desktop dead?" is being asked is perhaps signifcant in itself.
Finally, we seem to have an increasing number of "pure play" linux as desktop operating systems - Lycoris being just one example... Lindows being another. How many were there two years ago?
Of course, as I am quite happily using Linux and a Desktop Operating System - and each day it gets better, means that it isn't dead - it might only just have been born!
Three cheers for Lycoris - they look to have done a very good job.
.... ZDNet was sold to CNET two years or so ago. Ziff Davies is a relatively small outfit now with a few magazines.