In your opinion, will any company take the Microsoft style approach by marketing several OSes? e.g
Two for workstations, with one taking features that are irellivant to home users and one leaving them in
Several Server ones
One embedded one
I believe RedHat came close, but it's Linux is marketed as a Business (e.g NT) distro
Mandrake might of tried doing the same thing, but when it supposedly did, some of them didn't have successors
SuSE came close
Of course, you can build the same thing yourself, but it's true that customers don't want to recompile their kernels. I.E for a "Pro" workstation, you can leave all the PAM_* modules, but for the "Home" one, you only have PAM_Unix.
You can't really stop people from recompiling their kernels and whatever, but you don't really want to compile a distro with stuff that a novice with never seem to use. E.g, you would want to put WineX in a novice/home distro, since there is a big amount of games that would be played.
What is your take on this issue. Will any Linux company ever try this approach?
I covered up the holes in one of the panels of my ATX case with Aluminium Foil and I haven't seen a lot of dust lately. Also, it makes a good effect with a Cold Cathdote light:-).
Or wait until you remove a reversed LED fan, look at the dust!
Well, anyway. Of course, you'll want to be careful when ISO's of a new distro come out when you are on cable, especially in this incresingly open source world. You might benifit if your ISP has the stuff you want on their servers (e.g, your ISP has a Tucows (linux.tucows.com is just crap, it doesn't store actual programs, just links) server located near where you live), and might help multiplayer on your ISP's servers between several guys near where you live.
There are other options, like T1's, T3's, SDSL (Symetrical DSL). Note that cable is limited by the fact that you need to have a distribution cable in your street. I don't have one in my street, so I need to use ADSL. You could use Sattelite, but it takes some time for pages to 'take off' considering your precious pr0n needs to exit the atmosphere, come back in, go through several cables, leave the atmosphere and come back in again. I wouldn't consider hosting a CS server on a connection like that, I would use several 56k modems. Oh.. did I mention either way, several intelligence agencies will log your connections, and see if you intend to declare _real_ war on a western country, or if you are harbouring illegal immigrants. (Note to CIA, ASIO whoever: I do not harbour illegal immigrants at all. Why waste money on queue jumpers)
Remember that SCO has it's own proprietary UNIX product?. You could easily say that Linux has wiped out the sales of OpenUnix whatever. If SCO keeps on doing this, the only distro that will remain safe is probably Debian (It's quite hard to sue them, there all volunteers remember).
Hey.. hang on.. it's suing SuSE!! Ok.. the future of UnitedLinux is in the balance here.
I only wish there were such thing as the 'Slashdotters share fund'. Umm... it could prove really p0w3rfu1:-)
Set your MX record to a IPv6 address. Alternatively, set your email address to:
!BillGates!MSPostmaster!FreePr0n!GWBush!TBlair!y ou
I remember once having 7 mail filters in Evoloution. This is how I created it:
- block 'teen', 'sex', 'porn', 'sluts', 'gay', 'lesbian', 'penis', 'pussy' - Anaylse spam that isn't marked crap. Add corresponding rules to filter - Forward all mails from Africa asking you to be the next of kin for a stranger or money laundering to Kofi Annan and your local inteligence agency
There's no point blocking off hotmail.com on it's own. ALL Hotmail-originating mail has an "X-Originating-IP" header. If there is one, it's from hotmail.com and if it's spam, go ahead and DDos it. If it ain't, it's not a genuine hotmail.com address.
"Anybody want free pr0n?, I'll sell you all the pr0n mails in my inbox for 5c a messange!"
My ISP TOS says that I can't host a _public_ web server. I rang the service desk, and they say that you can run on _private_ web server, but not on port 80.
Phoenix is OK, but I rather prefer the current Mozilla browser showing how darn good my Duron 800Mhz@840Mhz is.
What I think is going: - Mozilla sidebar. Oh.. i've liked this from the start. The Phoenix one sucks. - Modern theme. Classic looks so crap on a LH 3683 OS. - MailNews. Whats wrong with MailNews?. Stop offending my p0w3rful box. - Being able to show that Netscape is just a clone. Umm.. not exactly true. as NS 7.1 has gone a bit futher away from Mozilla 1.0.1. I believe that it's going to be a Nightmare for NS introducing a new browser with less commonality. I think that Phoenix will be introduced as a seperate product at first, and when the modern theme gets ported (probably by NS), we might see a switch.
FUCK TELECOMMUNICATIONS (and DMCA, non-POSIX) LAWS CONVENTION Section 1. (a) No darn goverment in the world will legislate any telcommunications laws. (b) IPv4 Sucks. Everyone will be assigned a unique IPv6 address. (c) There will be no DMCA-style legislation anywhere. Everything will be licensed under a GNU GPL-compatible license Section 2. (a) Any Operating system NOT implementing the POSIX standard, with exception of embedded devices is banned. Section 3. (a) A person shall not use a Fifty-Six Kilobaud analog modem device. (b) A person must have access to an T3 line within 200 meters of residence. Section 4. (a) Every person over the age of 6 that is capable of operating a computing device will recieve free copies of the latest stable release of either FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Minix or Linux. (b) Every person who is able to operate a SQL92/99 Server will recieve a stable copy of PostgreSQL every time a stable release of that 'computer application' is released
starting with Longhorn Server in 2005 LOL!. I already have it. Just download any Longhorn 3683 or 4008 build and use a tool called TweakNT to switch OS editions. I did say that a syncronised release was likley with Longhorn didn't I?. WTF? You ask. Lookee here. Don't switch if you depend on Telephony though.
Ok, just hope it doesn't come into Windoze installers. That might put of hopes of YAWLL (yet-another-windows-longhorn-leak)
I don't wish to offend Europeans (NOT a troll), but this E.U commision is a whole pile of shit.. 1) That damn U.K Government is the only thing relevant between Europe and the rest of the world 2) When will they learn. M$ ain't going to change it's product (Windoze) to accomodate the legal problems of one Continent. If they need to stay there, they might end up selling off their European subsidiaries to reliable and trusted (read: No Linux) companies and give them the license to sell Microsoft products, therefore making it impossible for Microsoft to be lawsuit'ed in Europe directly.
I don't think so. Otherwise my ISP would of killed me for doing a segmented (feature of GetRight) download using several hosts a long time ago...
This comes as no suprise. Software costs an arm and a leg here. Damn Aussie dollar. Heck, I bring a copy of Command and Conquer generals in my laptop bag to school, next thing, everybody want's a bloddy copy. Then the technicians claim it's a virus caused by the game when you go to get your laptop reimaged. (I know that's _not_ right)
If Intel stays on it's current plans, the only markets for the GeForce and Quadro FX as well as the ATI R400 (refreshed 9700) will be the AMD market. But then, if new Intel CPU's can't use them, such cards may only have a limited production run before being taken off until PCI Express versions come out.
Does this mean that ISP's with a huge number of Geek users will try null-routing slashdot and sites like it to prevent having to pay the cost when someone elses site gets slashdotted?
You might look a PostgreSQL....it beat out Oracle as the DB for the.org name servers....
Yeah. MySQL lacks transaction support, making it useless in certain enterprises. (e.g sourceforge.net stopped using it and started using PostgreSQL when it introduced foundries). And a, a Recent PostgreSQL.org poll shows that 20% of postgres users formerly used SQL server. Just behind Sybase.
(Wasn't SQL server included in personal web server in NT 4.0 and 98/SE
In the uploads arena, I could transfer any file faster on rsync or scp, or even cvs -z5. And thats over 56k.
FTP isn't so secure, it's pratically text on port 23 (wonder why the warez sites still use it, aren't they trying to avoid goverment agencies? and M$ and all that crap?).
HTTP is faster for smaller files as FTP eates up a whole lot of time doing the connection procedure.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe RedHat came close, but it's Linux is marketed as a Business (e.g NT) distro
Mandrake might of tried doing the same thing, but when it supposedly did, some of them didn't have successors
SuSE came close
Of course, you can build the same thing yourself, but it's true that customers don't want to recompile their kernels. I.E for a "Pro" workstation, you can leave all the PAM_* modules, but for the "Home" one, you only have PAM_Unix.
You can't really stop people from recompiling their kernels and whatever, but you don't really want to compile a distro with stuff that a novice with never seem to use. E.g, you would want to put WineX in a novice/home distro, since there is a big amount of games that would be played.
What is your take on this issue. Will any Linux company ever try this approach?
I covered up the holes in one of the panels of my ATX case with Aluminium Foil and I haven't seen a lot of dust lately. Also, it makes a good effect with a Cold Cathdote light :-).
Or wait until you remove a reversed LED fan, look at the dust!
Well, anyway. Of course, you'll want to be careful when ISO's of a new distro come out when you are on cable, especially in this incresingly open source world. You might benifit if your ISP has the stuff you want on their servers (e.g, your ISP has a Tucows (linux.tucows.com is just crap, it doesn't store actual programs, just links) server located near where you live), and might help multiplayer on your ISP's servers between several guys near where you live.
There are other options, like T1's, T3's, SDSL (Symetrical DSL).
Note that cable is limited by the fact that you need to have a distribution cable in your street. I don't have one in my street, so I need to use ADSL. You could use Sattelite, but it takes some time for pages to 'take off' considering your precious pr0n needs to exit the atmosphere, come back in, go through several cables, leave the atmosphere and come back in again. I wouldn't consider hosting a CS server on a connection like that, I would use several 56k modems. Oh.. did I mention either way, several intelligence agencies will log your connections, and see if you intend to declare _real_ war on a western country, or if you are harbouring illegal immigrants. (Note to CIA, ASIO whoever: I do not harbour illegal immigrants at all. Why waste money on queue jumpers)
Just remember that Cable could be described as an Ethernet Hub. Your connection is not dedicated. While ADSL is.
/. Doesn't have that much bandwith.
Ahh... what the hell. Just get me 25xT3's. Oops..
Remember that SCO has it's own proprietary UNIX product?. You could easily say that Linux has wiped out the sales of OpenUnix whatever. If SCO keeps on doing this, the only distro that will remain safe is probably Debian (It's quite hard to sue them, there all volunteers remember).
:-)
Hey.. hang on.. it's suing SuSE!! Ok.. the future of UnitedLinux is in the balance here.
I only wish there were such thing as the 'Slashdotters share fund'. Umm... it could prove really p0w3rfu1
Set your MX record to a IPv6 address. Alternatively, set your email address to:
y ou
!BillGates!MSPostmaster!FreePr0n!GWBush!TBlair!
I remember once having 7 mail filters in Evoloution. This is how I created it:
- block 'teen', 'sex', 'porn', 'sluts', 'gay', 'lesbian', 'penis', 'pussy'
- Anaylse spam that isn't marked crap. Add corresponding rules to filter
- Forward all mails from Africa asking you to be the next of kin for a stranger or money laundering to Kofi Annan and your local inteligence agency
There's no point blocking off hotmail.com on it's own. ALL Hotmail-originating mail has an "X-Originating-IP" header. If there is one, it's from hotmail.com and if it's spam, go ahead and DDos it. If it ain't, it's not a genuine hotmail.com address.
"Anybody want free pr0n?, I'll sell you all the pr0n mails in my inbox for 5c a messange!"
He should of just hosted hotmail.com on his Linux box, and not transferred it until Microsoft drops it 's Windoze product line
My ISP TOS says that I can't host a _public_ web server. I rang the service desk, and they say that you can run on _private_ web server, but not on port 80.
Can some one give me an explanation?
Maybe Debian, FreeDOS, gnu parted and maybe Q3 Arena
Ok. Time we start using bzip2 in everything.
Phoenix is OK, but I rather prefer the current Mozilla browser showing how darn good my Duron 800Mhz@840Mhz is.
What I think is going:
- Mozilla sidebar. Oh.. i've liked this from the start. The Phoenix one sucks.
- Modern theme. Classic looks so crap on a LH 3683 OS.
- MailNews. Whats wrong with MailNews?. Stop offending my p0w3rful box.
- Being able to show that Netscape is just a clone. Umm.. not exactly true. as NS 7.1 has gone a bit futher away from Mozilla 1.0.1. I believe that it's going to be a Nightmare for NS introducing a new browser with less commonality. I think that Phoenix will be introduced as a seperate product at first, and when the modern theme gets ported (probably by NS), we might see a switch.
I'll miss you XPFE!
To make this a worldwide law:
FUCK TELECOMMUNICATIONS (and DMCA, non-POSIX) LAWS CONVENTION
Section 1.
(a) No darn goverment in the world will legislate any telcommunications laws.
(b) IPv4 Sucks. Everyone will be assigned a unique IPv6 address.
(c) There will be no DMCA-style legislation anywhere. Everything will be licensed under a GNU GPL-compatible license
Section 2.
(a) Any Operating system NOT implementing the POSIX standard, with exception of embedded devices is banned.
Section 3.
(a) A person shall not use a Fifty-Six Kilobaud analog modem device.
(b) A person must have access to an T3 line within 200 meters of residence.
Section 4.
(a) Every person over the age of 6 that is capable of operating a computing device will recieve free copies of the latest stable release of either FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Minix or Linux.
(b) Every person who is able to operate a SQL92/99 Server will recieve a stable copy of PostgreSQL every time a stable release of that 'computer application' is released
starting with Longhorn Server in 2005
LOL!. I already have it. Just download any Longhorn 3683 or 4008 build and use a tool called TweakNT to switch OS editions. I did say that a syncronised release was likley with Longhorn didn't I?. WTF? You ask. Lookee here. Don't switch if you depend on Telephony though.
Ok, just hope it doesn't come into Windoze installers. That might put of hopes of YAWLL (yet-another-windows-longhorn-leak)
I don't wish to offend Europeans (NOT a troll), but this E.U commision is a whole pile of shit..
1) That damn U.K Government is the only thing relevant between Europe and the rest of the world
2) When will they learn. M$ ain't going to change it's product (Windoze) to accomodate the legal problems of one Continent. If they need to stay there, they might end up selling off their European subsidiaries to reliable and trusted (read: No Linux) companies and give them the license to sell Microsoft products, therefore making it impossible for Microsoft to be lawsuit'ed in Europe directly.
I don't think so. Otherwise my ISP would of killed me for doing a segmented (feature of GetRight) download using several hosts a long time ago...
This comes as no suprise. Software costs an arm and a leg here. Damn Aussie dollar. Heck, I bring a copy of Command and Conquer generals in my laptop bag to school, next thing, everybody want's a bloddy copy. Then the technicians claim it's a virus caused by the game when you go to get your laptop reimaged. (I know that's _not_ right)
I seem to get the same thing with an Acer TravelMate 270 which is only a few weeks old. It usually happens on progress bars.
If Intel stays on it's current plans, the only markets for the GeForce and Quadro FX as well as the ATI R400 (refreshed 9700) will be the AMD market. But then, if new Intel CPU's can't use them, such cards may only have a limited production run before being taken off until PCI Express versions come out.
Does this mean that ISP's with a huge number of Geek users will try null-routing slashdot and sites like it to prevent having to pay the cost when someone elses site gets slashdotted?
We all know everytime someone says it, Allan Fells says it's bullshit.
You might look a PostgreSQL....it beat out Oracle as the DB for the .org name servers....
Yeah. MySQL lacks transaction support, making it useless in certain enterprises. (e.g sourceforge.net stopped using it and started using PostgreSQL when it introduced foundries).
And a, a Recent PostgreSQL.org poll shows that 20% of postgres users formerly used SQL server. Just behind Sybase.
(Wasn't SQL server included in personal web server in NT 4.0 and 98/SE
I want my copy of Windows 98 to go more than 3 days without a reset. Does that mean I'm in the minority? Or is OS stability just a 'feature'?.
Just avoid installing IE 6.0. It seems that Windows 98 is most stable when it's in it's original product state (i.e no updates).
FTP, in my opinion is antiquated.
In the uploads arena, I could transfer any file faster on rsync or scp, or even cvs -z5. And thats over 56k.
FTP isn't so secure, it's pratically text on port 23 (wonder why the warez sites still use it, aren't they trying to avoid goverment agencies? and M$ and all that crap?).
HTTP is faster for smaller files as FTP eates up a whole lot of time doing the connection procedure.
Paperless currency, in my opinion is well overdue.
1) Such cards could be used overseas more easily.
2) Good alternatives to credit cards. You won't get charged a fee for a lot of small transactions.
Until I see a notebook with a Itanium or Xeon processor and a Quadro FX graphics chip, this ain't friggin good enough.
- or -
Until I see a notebook with a x86-64 or dual Athlon processors and a Quadro FX graphics chip, this ain't ***ing good enough.
And oh, if it has a f**king WinModem, that ain't good enough either.
And it can't cost more than a 20 (Pentium II based) node Linux cluster