I questioned this clause, had it struck for what I was already working on in the same field, then gave them a small part of what I was working on personally, and watched a young engineer stuff up applying it to what they were doing. It sort of worked for them, but they didn't get the full benefit.
It just took MS over 5 years to develop their next OS
weighting in at 30% larger, who's going to guess how long
it'll take to build the next incarnation of Win2K
and how big will it be,
remember bugs go up exponentially with codebase size
they might be forced to move everything over to a real OS
it would be less effort and they could port over as many tricks as they like
with all their nice proprietory interface no one would ever catch them up,
and they wouldn't have to waste effort on the base OS
really no customer cares what's underneath as long as the familiar interface is there
Apple did it very sucessfully
Microsoft is a juggernaught and they're very slow at turning these days
As I've said before a hacker doesn't need extra privileges
to grab your passwords or collect data from you
or delete all your personal files
or otherwise mess with you personally
forget deleting your vi executable, they don't give a toss
about vi, they only want your money or mess with your head.
I see this as a long term problem never properly addressed by Linux.
you want silly
when I emailed an enquiry the reply was
prepare 1 cd of source code
sell code / install cd to customer
sell source cd to customer
offer to buy back source cd for 1 cent
go to next customer
I see an issue is the operating system allows this software to be hidden
and become unremovable. Apart from not giving root access does Linux
have any mechanisms for users to avoid this pitfall. This type of
addware could in the future be installed and run in user directories.
BSD can be configured to only run applications installed in $PATH
can Linux do similar, could Linux stop it if targeted?
You young people have it so easy,
when I was young....
TTL was hot and fast
CMOS was cool and slow
a fave joke was about the Russians designing the worlds largest micro chip
these days its not a joke its reality
CMOS is hot enough to cook an egg
hard drives shut down from over heat
components accelerate their aging when running hot which they always are
in summer you have to be in air con or have multiple fans
I now always have a 4" fan on my cpu
V8's are becoming dinosaurs
the next generation is 128bit processors
then 256bit
put some intelligence back into hardware and software design
throw away the sledgehammer
slim down, speed up
I've presently got a Belkin 54G pci card running,
ndiswrapper just works
the hardest thing was installing on someone elses windows
machine to extract the firmware, I'd rather the firmware
that comes with the card or a known manufacturer update.
RT2500-Linux-STA-1-4-6-2.tar.gz from http://www.ralinktech.com/
its gpl and has a nice qt3 utility for configuration, etc.
The problem isn't buying as much as selling. Technicians are shitting themselves that they might have to actually learn something new. They are soo busy removing viruses they just don't have the time to invest in learning a new operating system. Not that they have the mindset to open a simple editor or use some command line tools. The support company owners don't know where they will get their fat profits from. You can't sell an antivirus with every machine, then do a few service calls to sort out the firewall interacting with the 'doze apps, then do another couple of service calls to remove virus infections after the loosers have stopped updates because they slow the machine down too much.
My brother has a computer shop in the next small town (HippiesVille - aka Bellingen) He puts Mandrake or whichever newest magazine freebie linux on numerous machines. Because he is soo busy removing Windoze viruses doesn't really have time to learn Linux well enough to properly support those customers. The result is more work for me removing a half working install and putting in Debian and then getting them started with one to one. I feel you need a passion to spend the time to do a good job.
On our home network I watch the infections eminating from the grandsons Windoze gaming boxen with etherape - http://etherape.sourceforge.net/ it's not a desktop background, but it's cool (the grandson reckons its sick)
Because they are a really ugly corporation.
After working a couple of contracts for them I have learned to not trust their modus operandi.
I used to advise people to buy HP gear, no more.
Consumers can control corporations.
Forget fining them, whip them, don't purchase HP, don't work for them, don't trade their shares.
THIS IS A SHAMELESS PLUG, SEND THE ORDERS TO:---
I use (have developed) a Debian offshoot, which installs next to a windoze partition in 6 minutes. 1 Gb of web applications, music, video, most plugins, dialer, winmodem support, network, adsl, firewall, spam & virus filter. It's not for Joe Bloggs to install, its for a tech to do a professional job saving just these type of people from their life of windoze torture. It works, it's simple to use, customers love it mainly because they don't have to worry any more.
Build your own and install into as many windows machines as you can.
Cheers,
I live in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Oztralia
and our local library has had linux
terminals for years. They run a very
bare X shell and Netscape 4.7. They
are used to access the search system
which also seems to access a state-wide
library search.
Limited functionality?
What can't you do with a web browser?
no access to a shell and from memory
pretty tightly secured (hate to say, its
a while since I've been in the library)
I've just finished 6 weeks of 'advanced' Word and
Excel at our local tech college. Once a WordXP document gets too complex it rearranges itself because the network admin won't install service packs for officeXP. it sucks.
Some of the other students hadn't done much computer work and were mostly struggling. We were taught the quick click method with little understanding of what was happening.
Now We're doing Access I'm parralleling the course personally with PostgresQL.
Why don't you load Office and OpenOffice, teach the knowledge behind the clicks, then let the students decide which works better or easier.
I first used Libranet v1.2.2 then 1.9.1. It was great to use. The support was good, ran fast, apt, good selection of packages, stable, easy install. I'm presently using Woody. If you're
looking for something highly usable, try Libranet.
Hi,
It's a really trivial bit of circuitry,
and program.
Get the chip type,
download the specs,
bit of breadboard with a socket,
wire up to your printer port,
for a serial device wire direct to the socket,
for an 8 bit device use a chain of 4040's to
generate the address, data/control bits, 8 bit
latches.
need 12V, yellow wire on hard drive power lead,
switched, transistor, need a higher voltage,
use a string of batteries.
I program in Forth, so for me the program is
simple. and its probably just as easy in your
favourite language.
Make your program time off the pc tick and
make your timing very conservative.
Or generate a binary data/control.file and just
cp data/control.file/dev/lp0.
Cheers,
Colin
Slashdot Mirror
I questioned this clause, had it struck for what I was already working on in the same field, then gave them a small part of what I was working on personally, and watched a young engineer stuff up applying it to what they were doing. It sort of worked for them, but they didn't get the full benefit.
Microsoft might use it
It just took MS over 5 years to develop their next OS
weighting in at 30% larger, who's going to guess how long
it'll take to build the next incarnation of Win2K
and how big will it be,
remember bugs go up exponentially with codebase size
they might be forced to move everything over to a real OS
it would be less effort and they could port over as many tricks as they like
with all their nice proprietory interface no one would ever catch them up,
and they wouldn't have to waste effort on the base OS
really no customer cares what's underneath as long as the familiar interface is there
Apple did it very sucessfully
Microsoft is a juggernaught and they're very slow at turning these days
As I've said before a hacker doesn't need extra privileges
to grab your passwords or collect data from you
or delete all your personal files
or otherwise mess with you personally
forget deleting your vi executable, they don't give a toss
about vi, they only want your money or mess with your head.
I see this as a long term problem never properly addressed by Linux.
you want silly
when I emailed an enquiry the reply was
prepare 1 cd of source code
sell code / install cd to customer
sell source cd to customer
offer to buy back source cd for 1 cent
go to next customer
I see an issue is the operating system allows this software to be hidden
and become unremovable. Apart from not giving root access does Linux
have any mechanisms for users to avoid this pitfall. This type of
addware could in the future be installed and run in user directories.
BSD can be configured to only run applications installed in $PATH
can Linux do similar, could Linux stop it if targeted?
What's wrong with ties??
I used to have a red bow tie with white spots
usually for Fridays after lunch up the pub
I love poets day
You young people have it so easy,
when I was young....
TTL was hot and fast
CMOS was cool and slow
a fave joke was about the Russians designing the worlds largest micro chip
these days its not a joke its reality
CMOS is hot enough to cook an egg
hard drives shut down from over heat
components accelerate their aging when running hot which they always are
in summer you have to be in air con or have multiple fans
I now always have a 4" fan on my cpu
V8's are becoming dinosaurs
the next generation is 128bit processors
then 256bit
put some intelligence back into hardware and software design
throw away the sledgehammer
slim down, speed up
cool dude
I've presently got a Belkin 54G pci card running, ndiswrapper just works the hardest thing was installing on someone elses windows machine to extract the firmware, I'd rather the firmware that comes with the card or a known manufacturer update. RT2500-Linux-STA-1-4-6-2.tar.gz from http://www.ralinktech.com/ its gpl and has a nice qt3 utility for configuration, etc.
The problem isn't buying as much as selling. Technicians are shitting themselves that they might have to actually learn something new. They are soo busy removing viruses they just don't have the time to invest in learning a new operating system. Not that they have the mindset to open a simple editor or use some command line tools. The support company owners don't know where they will get their fat profits from. You can't sell an antivirus with every machine, then do a few service calls to sort out the firewall interacting with the 'doze apps, then do another couple of service calls to remove virus infections after the loosers have stopped updates because they slow the machine down too much.
One place I resigned from I signed off the resignation with So long, thanks for all the fish
My brother has a computer shop in the next small town (HippiesVille - aka Bellingen) He puts Mandrake or whichever newest magazine freebie linux on numerous machines. Because he is soo busy removing Windoze viruses doesn't really have time to learn Linux well enough to properly support those customers. The result is more work for me removing a half working install and putting in Debian and then getting them started with one to one. I feel you need a passion to spend the time to do a good job.
On our home network I watch the infections eminating from the grandsons Windoze gaming boxen with etherape - http://etherape.sourceforge.net/ it's not a desktop background, but it's cool (the grandson reckons its sick)
Because they are a really ugly corporation. After working a couple of contracts for them I have learned to not trust their modus operandi. I used to advise people to buy HP gear, no more. Consumers can control corporations. Forget fining them, whip them, don't purchase HP, don't work for them, don't trade their shares.
THIS IS A SHAMELESS PLUG, SEND THE ORDERS TO :---
I use (have developed) a Debian offshoot, which installs next to a windoze partition in 6 minutes. 1 Gb of web applications, music, video, most plugins, dialer, winmodem support, network, adsl, firewall, spam & virus filter. It's not for Joe Bloggs to install, its for a tech to do a professional job saving just these type of people from their life of windoze torture. It works, it's simple to use, customers love it mainly because they don't have to worry any more.
Build your own and install into as many windows machines as you can.
Cheers,
I live in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Oztralia and our local library has had linux terminals for years. They run a very bare X shell and Netscape 4.7. They are used to access the search system which also seems to access a state-wide library search. Limited functionality? What can't you do with a web browser? no access to a shell and from memory pretty tightly secured (hate to say, its a while since I've been in the library)
I've just finished 6 weeks of 'advanced' Word and Excel at our local tech college. Once a WordXP document gets too complex it rearranges itself because the network admin won't install service packs for officeXP. it sucks. Some of the other students hadn't done much computer work and were mostly struggling. We were taught the quick click method with little understanding of what was happening. Now We're doing Access I'm parralleling the course personally with PostgresQL. Why don't you load Office and OpenOffice, teach the knowledge behind the clicks, then let the students decide which works better or easier.
I first used Libranet v1.2.2 then 1.9.1. It was great to use. The support was good, ran fast, apt, good selection of packages, stable, easy install. I'm presently using Woody. If you're looking for something highly usable, try Libranet.
Hi, It's a really trivial bit of circuitry, and program. Get the chip type, download the specs, bit of breadboard with a socket, wire up to your printer port, for a serial device wire direct to the socket, for an 8 bit device use a chain of 4040's to generate the address, data/control bits, 8 bit latches. need 12V, yellow wire on hard drive power lead, switched, transistor, need a higher voltage, use a string of batteries. I program in Forth, so for me the program is simple. and its probably just as easy in your favourite language. Make your program time off the pc tick and make your timing very conservative. Or generate a binary data/control.file and just cp data/control.file /dev/lp0.
Cheers,
Colin