...is a must. He (and Galileo) were reviled with extreme prejudice for the revolutionary concept that not everything revolves around the Earth. (Well, that the Earth revoles around the sun, but you know what I mean).
Some of my other suggestions would be:
Albert Einstein, an obvious choice, but one that will be on the list; let's face it, he was the ubergeek personified
The Curies.
Ada Lovelace and
Charles Babbage. The difference engine was a leap forward in computing, even if it was completely mechanical.
I would of course be remiss without noting that Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace's contributions are even more remarkable considering the tremendous bias against women doing serious scientific work at their respective times in history.
To be honest, though, you are talking about the top geeks of the millennium. Ten slots aren't going to be enough to do justice. Technology has come a long way in this millennium, and there are too many people that are responsible for that to limit the number to 10 slots. You need to recognize 25 people at least. 50 would be better.
I'm not worried about food and stuff come midnight tomorrow. I simply plan on looting the grocery stores. I live in one of those areas where, if abject terror starts, everyone will start looting the electronics stores for expensive merchandise. While they're all doing that, I'll just load up my Firebird with all the food it can hold and take off before anyone realizes the electronic equipment they just stole is useless 'cause there's no electricity. Of course, I'm sure someone else has thought of this, so I'll bring my gun along to erase any competition....
1) to stay on top of WinCE. While it's true that suits don't _need_ color, a lot of suits (the ones with expense accounts) are also PHBs, and when they look at a Palm device and then a WinCE device, they say, "Wow, the screen is so much better." They don't see the Palm's better usability, more productive apps, longer battery life, etc. Yes, I effectively just said "Executives are distracted by brightly colored objects." I'm right, and Palm Computing knows it. In addition, the same sort of thing goes for the home user that knows nothing about computers, especially parents buying gifts for little Tommy to go off to college. "Wow, the screen is so bright and colorful; Tommy can surf the Web right from this device." Of course, the screens aren't big enough to actually do this, but parents/other consumers don't know this.
2) because color adds subtle, but important benefits. If an item on my ToDo list is overdue, I'm much more likely to notice it if its highlighted in red than the current setup (an exclmation point on the right side of the due date, which is normally obscured by my Targus carrying case). And color in the month and week views of the Date Book could be used to denote the priority of events, etc. The benefits of color screens may be subtle, but they can be very important, and can add even more productivity to and already productive experience. Of course, one can look at WinCE and see color can also complicate an already over-complicated experience, but Palm Computing *did* make the Palm in the first place; surely they can integrate color in a way to add, rather than subtract, to their already wonderful user experience. Can't they?
Yes, it was a publicity stunt to promote their new "online VJ." Only, it went over so badly the whole thing disappeared faster than that Jesse dude that won the contest...
because the word hackers has just been run through the mud way too much. Call us coders, geeks, or whatever, I do NOT want to be in the same group as these guys. I actually thought the Shamrock dude might sort of be half-credible (I still can't believe MTV understood the concept of a phone phreaker) until I found out he was a freakin' drug dealer! And the blue-haired dude was a script kiddie; grandize him all you want, he had script kiddie written all over him. No self-respecting hacker I know (especially with a camera on him/her), when asked to open a Web site, immediately opens Internet Explorer on Windows. I still also find it hard to believe the government didn't prosecute him; it sounded like they had more evidence (he had code to the GPS system, for pete's sake) than in the Kevin Mitnick case, but let's don't go there....
When the guys from L0pht came on, I thought, "great, finally real hackers." But the only reason MTV interviewed them is because they testified before Congress, because the all too short clip with them included stock footage of Mudge telling Senator Fred Thompson that one of them could take out the Internet "with just a few packets."
At least the one dude (what was name? Mantis? the black dude from New York) was actually seen at a *nix CLI of some kind, and he did have The Matrix on DVD (or in some digital form) before it came out (although that would have had a more dramatic impact if the show had been shown *before* The Matrix had been out on DVD and at Blockbuster for two weeks).
Hey, MTV: I know you've heard this a lot the past few years, but you're going to hear it from me, again:
and did they install them? In addition to its monsteriously huge Service Packs and Option Packs, NT also has hotfixs, which are patches for things between service packs. Did they apply them?
Actually, I take issue with the whole "real sysadmin" scenario. If this were a _real_ sysadmin, he would have looked at all the Windows NT and Red Hat Linux patches and remembered that, even if it was troublesome, if he didn't apply them, it could be _his or her job_. I know this because _I am a sysadmin_, and if someone breaks into our company or something fails because of a patch I didn't apply, _I_ have to tell the President what went wrong and why. _Real_ sysadmins take responsbility for the actions (or inaction). If, after you've been made aware of a patch (security of otherwise), you don't apply it, you are accepting the consequences for not applying that patch, regardless of whether you're running Windows NT, Linux, UnixWare, Novell NetWare, or any other OS. Now, if people want to talk about making "packages of patches" or something like that to make things easier, fine, but ZDNet can't cry to me about "real world sysadmins," because _I_ know better.
Actually, I wasn't commenting on the protocol itself as much as the dripping marketting hype.
IPP development was/is backed largely by Novell and HP, among others. Gee, that's the first time something from HP has been been accused of "dripping marketing hype" since 100VG AnyLAN (yuck!). And it's the first time anything from Novell has been accused of having any hype, ever.
OK, while I've always said DS9 was just a rip-off of other SF series, it really just hit me the other day just HOW BAD of a rip-off it is.
So, I'm sitting there watching DS9 for the first time in probably a year, because the plots are just LAME, but I was bored and flipping channels, and it's on, so I'm thinking, OK, let's see what's up. So I'm watching, and something about the shape of the Defiant catches my eye. You know, how it's kinda rounded in front, but has that deflector thing sticking out. I've seen that somewhere else before...
Aha! The Defiant looks like the Ark from the Transformers! OK, the Star Trek people have tacked on their gawdy warp nacelles, but other than that, it's the Autobot ship that crashed on Earth like 4 million years ago. Don't believe me? Check out the last episodes of Beast Wars: Transformers. There it is, different color, engines are a bit different in back, otherwise it's the Defiant.
Admittedly, I've just told everyone I have no life. Plus, you may not agree with me. I still think I'm right. And my Slashdot karma will probably drop me into the garden slug class after this message. I don't care, I still say ST is so desparate they've been ripping off cartoons!
Hmm...get home at between 5 or 6...get online around 6...online 'til midnight at least...sometimes until 2...whenever I go to bed anyway, let's see, that's 6-8 hours a day. Hi, I'm WolfShades, and I'm a 'Net-aholic....and I love it.
From the PC Week article: ========== Previously, we had found that Samba could outperform NT 4.0 using NT workstation clients (see "NOS crossroads," PC Week's Shoot-Out of network operating systems). As a direct result of that Shoot-Out, Microsoft's performance engineers were prompted to find ways to enhance file throughput from NT servers to NT workstation clients. =========
Apparently, one of the reasons Linux hasn't been blowing NT out of the water as in previous tests is that Microsoft has figured out how to reconfigure NT to do better. I wonder if they haven't also made changes to the NT kernel or other underlying software? Of course, since we have no NT source code, we can't tell. OTOH, we *know* the Linux community is already hard at work changing its code, as is the Apache and Samba communities, and both the programs and their users will be better off in the long run. How long have people been doing Linux versus NT tests, and NT is just now catching up? How long does anyone think it will take for Linux/Apache/Samba to adapt and come back even stronger?
(Maybe Linux is more Borg-like than MS after all, but in a good way!)
As some people pointed out, this was not, "to add Linux, we need to drop something, let's drop NetWare." When the R5 project started, Lotus decided to drop the following Notes/Domino platforms:
Domino -- NetWare, OS/2 Notes -- all *nix-based versions
Linux was *not* considered at this point. It was decided that OS/2 and NetWare's future were questionable (this was before NetWare 5 became such a huge success, and before NDS 8 was announced), and so few people were using the *nix clients it didn't seem important to continue them. Even a Mac version of Notes was apparently not considered until late in development.
The Domino port to Linux most certainly comes from Lotus's experience porting Domino 4.6 to OS/400. In order to accomplish this, Lotus attempted to compile the Domino for Solaris source code on an AS/400. The error percentage was small and apparently fixed easily. Lotus's previous experience with porting Domino, combined with others' successful ports of software to Linux from other *nixes, and IBM's newfound support of a Microsoft fighter..err, Linux, made Domino for Linux a logical progression, Jeff Papows and his fake Marine career notwithstanding.
You've been talking to the wrong people. AIX will _not_ be killed, especially by Linux, for several reasons. The most important reason is the fact that AIX users aren't going to give up AIX (and all their AIX apps) that easily, especially some OS that's been newly-ported to the POWER2 platform and that has not had the proven track record of AIX. (Now, you AIX-haters out there, remember, people that bought AIX bought a *nix system from IBM, creator of EBCDIC. 'nuf said.)
Your information on Apache on IBM platforms is only partially correct. Apache is slated to become the core server in IBM's WebSphere Application Server and probably Domino Go Webserver. Domino Go (which is NOT Domino) is scheduled to replace the lame (and apparently NCSA-derived) web server on the AS/400 and other IBM platforms. There apparently isn't much code that is actually shared between Go and Domino now, and Lotus isn't about to recode Domino around an Apache core anytime soon, especially after all the delays in shipping R5 in the first place. (Keep in mind the AS/400 version of Domino just shipped a month or so ago, and the Mac version of Notes _still_ hasn't shipped.)
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Some of my other suggestions would be:
I would of course be remiss without noting that Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace's contributions are even more remarkable considering the tremendous bias against women doing serious scientific work at their respective times in history.
To be honest, though, you are talking about the top geeks of the millennium. Ten slots aren't going to be enough to do justice. Technology has come a long way in this millennium, and there are too many people that are responsible for that to limit the number to 10 slots. You need to recognize 25 people at least. 50 would be better.
I'm not worried about food and stuff come midnight tomorrow. I simply plan on looting the grocery stores. I live in one of those areas where, if abject terror starts, everyone will start looting the electronics stores for expensive merchandise. While they're all doing that, I'll just load up my Firebird with all the food it can hold and take off before anyone realizes the electronic equipment they just stole is useless 'cause there's no electricity. Of course, I'm sure someone else has thought of this, so I'll bring my gun along to erase any competition....
1) to stay on top of WinCE. While it's true that suits don't _need_ color, a lot of suits (the ones with expense accounts) are also PHBs, and when they look at a Palm device and then a WinCE device, they say, "Wow, the screen is so much better." They don't see the Palm's better usability, more productive apps, longer battery life, etc. Yes, I effectively just said "Executives are distracted by brightly colored objects." I'm right, and Palm Computing knows it. In addition, the same sort of thing goes for the home user that knows nothing about computers, especially parents buying gifts for little Tommy to go off to college. "Wow, the screen is so bright and colorful; Tommy can surf the Web right from this device." Of course, the screens aren't big enough to actually do this, but parents/other consumers don't know this.
2) because color adds subtle, but important benefits. If an item on my ToDo list is overdue, I'm much more likely to notice it if its highlighted in red than the current setup (an exclmation point on the right side of the due date, which is normally obscured by my Targus carrying case). And color in the month and week views of the Date Book could be used to denote the priority of events, etc. The benefits of color screens may be subtle, but they can be very important, and can add even more productivity to and already productive experience. Of course, one can look at WinCE and see color can also complicate an already over-complicated experience, but Palm Computing *did* make the Palm in the first place; surely they can integrate color in a way to add, rather than subtract, to their already wonderful user experience. Can't they?
Unless Marc and his pals are working on creating thunderstorms, LoudCloud is definitely the stupidest corporate name I've ever heard.
Yes, it was a publicity stunt to promote their new "online VJ." Only, it went over so badly the whole thing disappeared faster than that Jesse dude that won the contest...
because the word hackers has just been run through the mud way too much. Call us coders, geeks, or whatever, I do NOT want to be in the same group as these guys. I actually thought the Shamrock dude might sort of be half-credible (I still can't believe MTV understood the concept of a phone phreaker) until I found out he was a freakin' drug dealer! And the blue-haired dude was a script kiddie; grandize him all you want, he had script kiddie written all over him. No self-respecting hacker I know (especially with a camera on him/her), when asked to open a Web site, immediately opens Internet Explorer on Windows. I still also find it hard to believe the government didn't prosecute him; it sounded like they had more evidence (he had code to the GPS system, for pete's sake) than in the Kevin Mitnick case, but let's don't go there....
When the guys from L0pht came on, I thought, "great, finally real hackers." But the only reason MTV interviewed them is because they testified before Congress, because the all too short clip with them included stock footage of Mudge telling Senator Fred Thompson that one of them could take out the Internet "with just a few packets."
At least the one dude (what was name? Mantis? the black dude from New York) was actually seen at a *nix CLI of some kind, and he did have The Matrix on DVD (or in some digital form) before it came out (although that would have had a more dramatic impact if the show had been shown *before* The Matrix had been out on DVD and at Blockbuster for two weeks).
Hey, MTV: I know you've heard this a lot the past few years, but you're going to hear it from me, again:
Go back to playing videos.
and did they install them? In addition to its monsteriously huge Service Packs and Option Packs, NT also has hotfixs, which are patches for things between service packs. Did they apply them?
Actually, I take issue with the whole "real sysadmin" scenario. If this were a _real_ sysadmin, he would have looked at all the Windows NT and Red Hat Linux patches and remembered that, even if it was troublesome, if he didn't apply them, it could be _his or her job_. I know this because _I am a sysadmin_, and if someone breaks into our company or something fails because of a patch I didn't apply, _I_ have to tell the President what went wrong and why. _Real_ sysadmins take responsbility for the actions (or inaction). If, after you've been made aware of a patch (security of otherwise), you don't apply it, you are accepting the consequences for not applying that patch, regardless of whether you're running Windows NT, Linux, UnixWare, Novell NetWare, or any other OS. Now, if people want to talk about making "packages of patches" or something like that to make things easier, fine, but ZDNet can't cry to me about "real world sysadmins," because _I_ know better.
Actually, I wasn't commenting on the protocol itself as much as the dripping marketting hype.
IPP development was/is backed largely by Novell and HP, among others. Gee, that's the first time something from HP has been been accused of "dripping marketing hype" since 100VG AnyLAN (yuck!). And it's the first time anything from Novell has been accused of having any hype, ever.
OK, while I've always said DS9 was just a rip-off of other SF series, it really just hit me the other day just HOW BAD of a rip-off it is.
So, I'm sitting there watching DS9 for the first time in probably a year, because the plots are just LAME, but I was bored and flipping channels, and it's on, so I'm thinking, OK, let's see what's up. So I'm watching, and something about the shape of the Defiant catches my eye. You know, how it's kinda rounded in front, but has that deflector thing sticking out. I've seen that somewhere else before...
Aha! The Defiant looks like the Ark from the Transformers! OK, the Star Trek people have tacked on their gawdy warp nacelles, but other than that, it's the Autobot ship that crashed on Earth like 4 million years ago. Don't believe me? Check out the last episodes of Beast Wars: Transformers. There it is, different color, engines are a bit different in back, otherwise it's the Defiant.
Admittedly, I've just told everyone I have no life. Plus, you may not agree with me. I still think I'm right. And my Slashdot karma will probably drop me into the garden slug class after this message. I don't care, I still say ST is so desparate they've been ripping off cartoons!
Hmm...get home at between 5 or 6...get online around 6...online 'til midnight at least...sometimes until 2...whenever I go to bed anyway, let's see, that's 6-8 hours a day. Hi, I'm WolfShades, and I'm a 'Net-aholic....and I love it.
From the PC Week article:
==========
Previously, we had found that Samba could outperform NT 4.0 using NT workstation clients (see "NOS crossroads," PC Week's Shoot-Out of network operating systems). As a direct result of that Shoot-Out, Microsoft's performance engineers were prompted to find ways to enhance file throughput from NT servers to NT workstation clients.
=========
Apparently, one of the reasons Linux hasn't been blowing NT out of the water as in previous tests is that Microsoft has figured out how to reconfigure NT to do better. I wonder if they haven't also made changes to the NT kernel or other underlying software? Of course, since we have no NT source code, we can't tell. OTOH, we *know* the Linux community is already hard at work changing its code, as is the Apache and Samba communities, and both the programs and their users will be better off in the long run. How long have people been doing Linux versus NT tests, and NT is just now catching up? How long does anyone think it will take for Linux/Apache/Samba to adapt and come back even stronger?
(Maybe Linux is more Borg-like than MS after all, but in a good way!)
As some people pointed out, this was not, "to add Linux, we need to drop something, let's drop NetWare." When the R5 project started, Lotus decided to drop the following Notes/Domino platforms:
Domino -- NetWare, OS/2
Notes -- all *nix-based versions
Linux was *not* considered at this point. It was decided that OS/2 and NetWare's future were questionable (this was before NetWare 5 became such a huge success, and before NDS 8 was announced), and so few people were using the *nix clients it didn't seem important to continue them. Even a Mac version of Notes was apparently not considered until late in development.
The Domino port to Linux most certainly comes from Lotus's experience porting Domino 4.6 to OS/400. In order to accomplish this, Lotus attempted to compile the Domino for Solaris source code on an AS/400. The error percentage was small and apparently fixed easily. Lotus's previous experience with porting Domino, combined with others' successful ports of software to Linux from other *nixes, and IBM's newfound support of a Microsoft fighter..err, Linux, made Domino for Linux a logical progression, Jeff Papows and his fake Marine career notwithstanding.
You've been talking to the wrong people. AIX will _not_ be killed, especially by Linux, for several reasons. The most important reason is the fact that AIX users aren't going to give up AIX (and all their AIX apps) that easily, especially some OS that's been newly-ported to the POWER2 platform and that has not had the proven track record of AIX. (Now, you AIX-haters out there, remember, people that bought AIX bought a *nix system from IBM, creator of EBCDIC. 'nuf said.)
Your information on Apache on IBM platforms is only partially correct. Apache is slated to become the core server in IBM's WebSphere Application Server and probably Domino Go Webserver. Domino Go (which is NOT Domino) is scheduled to replace the lame (and apparently NCSA-derived) web server on the AS/400 and other IBM platforms. There apparently isn't much code that is actually shared between Go and Domino now, and Lotus isn't about to recode Domino around an Apache core anytime soon, especially after all the delays in shipping R5 in the first place. (Keep in mind the AS/400 version of Domino just shipped a month or so ago, and the Mac version of Notes _still_ hasn't shipped.)