"enhanced support for Red Hat and SuSE Linux" most probably means that IBM will do their best to get those workstations certified by Red Hat and SuSE.
As far as I can see, all Thinkcentre models ship with WinXP (Home or Pro) with a few shipping with a PC-DOS license. Anyhow, unless they really do release a Linux preload model as stated in the India Times article, I really doubt that IBM will support anything but the preload. Install a RH on your Intellistation, it will probably be certified by Red Hat, and you'll have to turn to them for support.
As for Linux preloads, some Thinkpads used to have them a couple of years, and therefore IBM would support the Caldera preload (that must have been before they bought SCO:), although I can imagine than in most cases what you heard was "Do a recovery"!
He added that India should emerge not only as a software industry but as an "ICT (Information and communication technology) industry" with equal strengths in software, hardware, embedded systems design, integration and total end-to-end solutions.
I think India is to be reckoned with in the future. Take the pharmaceutical industry at the moment, India has big companies manufacturing generic medicines. That story actually reminded of that: give them the source/ingredients and they will try to make it, but cheaper. Obviously they can't make free software any cheaper, but if they try to make it a complete solution, then why couldn't they have a chance of succeeding? The major problem they are facing at the moment imho is probably a lack of qualified IT people, but give them time, and they will surely be there.
I like superbad. However it is not infinite clicks as you mention. I recall a page that has links to all the others on the site. Oh, and it's worth checking the source of some pages for additional comments.
The NYTimes article seems to be mostly based on the Jodi project. While I've been disappointed that the site itself has been mostly stagnant these last few years (http://map.jodi.org is mostly a collection of dead links now eg., although it has its charms), the way they are taking their work outside the internet, with such exhibitions all around the world is probably the main thing in this article.
Some people have already pointed out that HTML is not art, just a medium to create art, but the important thing here is that by taking their project outside the internet, the jodi team are showing to the world that HTML can create art indeed.
I was also considering they might have been selling copied CDs until I found other articles, explaining that they were running a MP3 and WMA website. In a way that probably made them easier to catch than if they'd been selling copied CDs. Clever.
I must admit I am quite puzzled by all this and why the grant has been suppressed. Surely DARPA has no interest in stopping OpenBSD development or even just slowing it down since they use it themselves. However they say it is for security reasons. Shock horror, terrorists could be benefiting from the use of Open BSD too!!
I am wondering whether DARPA could not have plans to try and do development from the current Open BSD themselves? Check the Open BSD copyright policy again. There's nothing preventing them to use the source for their own closed source or open source software, and while Open BSD is available to everyone, they could keep it for themselves.
It's the only explanation that makes sense that I can think of. Obviously I may be wrong and the real explanation could be one that makes no sense.
Ok, this is off topic, and I'm not that well informed about Islam, but I'm not sure how exactly your statement "Politics is for the mass, religion is for your own" applies to Islam. Has anyone got more information on the separation or collusion of state and religion with Islam?
The closest I've been to a Concorde is in Le Bourget aviation museum, where they have a more and more derelict Concord. I don't think I'd ever have been able to afford a Concorde journey, but still no more truly fast commercial flights with Concorde gone:/
My experience has taught me a few things when it comes to choosing ISPs, which fall roughly into 2 types:
- The big corporate ones, targetted mostly at home users, although some do have business customers as well. They're the ones likely to introduce those weird clauses in their TOS, or to provide poor service because they're big and they don't care anyway, if some customers leave, they'll get new ones who have seen the TV ads or picked up a CD at Walmart. A lot of those ISPs originate from their country's phone company too.
- The smaller ones, and those that are mostly targetted at business users. If you're on the same lines as business users, the ISP will have to react really quickly in case of problems on their networks. If you need support they won't only support Windows. Downside is that you probably won't be a priority for them, but if they keep things running smoothly for business users, they'll run smoothly for home users as well.
Windows 2003 server is the OS that really follows W2K. Windows XP is not a server operating system. Windows 2003 does not come with the XP Luna GUI but a classic one (or correct me if I'm wrong!).
Don't base your expectations of 2003 on XP, as we're talking different kinds of operating systems here.
I completely agree about 1984. And not just for the privacy part.
I am always amazed at how Bush and his administration manage to get so much support from the Americans. Are the schools there teaching children not to question anything, stop thinking and take what's being said on TV as some holy thoughts?
It is shocking how easily people are being manipulated into thinking this is all being done for their own good. The basis of all this at the moment seems to be the creation of a black and white world: with us/against us - patriotic/unpatriotic etc. making more and more difficult to express disagreement and encouraging censorship.
I suggest we start a large charity organisation and distribute a copy of 1984 to every American citizen. It might hopefully open the minds of the millions of Americans who admire Dubya Bush most.
I am not the lucky owner of an Xbox but my flatmate is. I'm not a huge gamer, so I can't really compare with the PS2 or the gamecube, but if I was to buy my own game console, I don't think the Xbox would be my pick (even though I would miss Amped:)
Right there is no bluescreen, but it's frozen on me on a few occasions. The next one is most likely a game issue, but menus can be really slow and unresponsive. An extra £20 for the DVD kit. Games have the same transparency errors as 32bit games on the PS1 had. And now our controller has died. After less than a year.
I'd like to know how succesful the launch of the network thing is however. But still, MS would have to improve things with the Xbox for me to be even remotely tempted to buy one.
Slashdot Mirror
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2968106.stm
"enhanced support for Red Hat and SuSE Linux" most probably means that IBM will do their best to get those workstations certified by Red Hat and SuSE.
:), although I can imagine than in most cases what you heard was "Do a recovery"!
As far as I can see, all Thinkcentre models ship with WinXP (Home or Pro) with a few shipping with a PC-DOS license. Anyhow, unless they really do release a Linux preload model as stated in the India Times article, I really doubt that IBM will support anything but the preload. Install a RH on your Intellistation, it will probably be certified by Red Hat, and you'll have to turn to them for support.
As for Linux preloads, some Thinkpads used to have them a couple of years, and therefore IBM would support the Caldera preload (that must have been before they bought SCO
He added that India should emerge not only as a software industry but as an "ICT (Information and communication technology) industry" with equal strengths in software, hardware, embedded systems design, integration and total end-to-end solutions.
I think India is to be reckoned with in the future. Take the pharmaceutical industry at the moment, India has big companies manufacturing generic medicines.
That story actually reminded of that: give them the source/ingredients and they will try to make it, but cheaper. Obviously they can't make free software any cheaper, but if they try to make it a complete solution, then why couldn't they have a chance of succeeding?
The major problem they are facing at the moment imho is probably a lack of qualified IT people, but give them time, and they will surely be there.
It might not be the exact recipe from your local Indian restaurant, but you can find a recipe here or here for instance.
./'s new colours?
Has anyone else got difficulties getting used to
Was it SCO or Yahoo that added:
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. ?
download.com took off the kazaalite files from their site after kazaa requested it.
Don't tell me /.ers are busy reading the article...
There's just nothing as good as the BSD game collection :)
*goes for another round of mille bornes*
The same notion of trust that you can find in TCPA:
Check points 24 and 25 of the TCPA FAQ:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
could we have your source?
I like superbad. However it is not infinite clicks as you mention. I recall a page that has links to all the others on the site. Oh, and it's worth checking the source of some pages for additional comments.
The NYTimes article seems to be mostly based on the Jodi project. While I've been disappointed that the site itself has been mostly stagnant these last few years (http://map.jodi.org is mostly a collection of dead links now eg., although it has its charms), the way they are taking their work outside the internet, with such exhibitions all around the world is probably the main thing in this article.
Some people have already pointed out that HTML is not art, just a medium to create art, but the important thing here is that by taking their project outside the internet, the jodi team are showing to the world that HTML can create art indeed.
I was also considering they might have been selling copied CDs until I found other articles, explaining that they were running a MP3 and WMA website. In a way that probably made them easier to catch than if they'd been selling copied CDs. Clever.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/24/10507773 42470.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1027-998132.html
I must admit I am quite puzzled by all this and why the grant has been suppressed. Surely DARPA has no interest in stopping OpenBSD development or even just slowing it down since they use it themselves. However they say it is for security reasons. Shock horror, terrorists could be benefiting from the use of Open BSD too!!
I am wondering whether DARPA could not have plans to try and do development from the current Open BSD themselves?
Check the Open BSD copyright policy again. There's nothing preventing them to use the source for their own closed source or open source software, and while Open BSD is available to everyone, they could keep it for themselves.
It's the only explanation that makes sense that I can think of. Obviously I may be wrong and the real explanation could be one that makes no sense.
It's not about a free OS but about Open Source.
Ok, this is off topic, and I'm not that well informed about Islam, but I'm not sure how exactly your statement "Politics is for the mass, religion is for your own" applies to Islam.
Has anyone got more information on the separation or collusion of state and religion with Islam?
Sheesh, in my time it involved working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week without vacation for 4 years straight...
Superb. Those are 2 publishers that he may consider contacting now!
And the best in this, is that courtesy of them he might be able get advice on getting a new identity to protect himself in case he gets sued.
The closest I've been to a Concorde is in Le Bourget aviation museum, where they have a more and more derelict Concord. :/
I don't think I'd ever have been able to afford a Concorde journey, but still no more truly fast commercial flights with Concorde gone
This sounds like you still work with them!
My experience has taught me a few things when it comes to choosing ISPs, which fall roughly into 2 types:
- The big corporate ones, targetted mostly at home users, although some do have business customers as well. They're the ones likely to introduce those weird clauses in their TOS, or to provide poor service because they're big and they don't care anyway, if some customers leave, they'll get new ones who have seen the TV ads or picked up a CD at Walmart. A lot of those ISPs originate from their country's phone company too.
- The smaller ones, and those that are mostly targetted at business users. If you're on the same lines as business users, the ISP will have to react really quickly in case of problems on their networks. If you need support they won't only support Windows. Downside is that you probably won't be a priority for them, but if they keep things running smoothly for business users, they'll run smoothly for home users as well.
Windows 2003 server is the OS that really follows W2K. Windows XP is not a server operating system.
Windows 2003 does not come with the XP Luna GUI but a classic one (or correct me if I'm wrong!).
Don't base your expectations of 2003 on XP, as we're talking different kinds of operating systems here.
I completely agree about 1984. And not just for the privacy part.
I am always amazed at how Bush and his administration manage to get so much support from the Americans. Are the schools there teaching children not to question anything, stop thinking and take what's being said on TV as some holy thoughts?
It is shocking how easily people are being manipulated into thinking this is all being done for their own good. The basis of all this at the moment seems to be the creation of a black and white world: with us/against us - patriotic/unpatriotic etc. making more and more difficult to express disagreement and encouraging censorship.
I suggest we start a large charity organisation and distribute a copy of 1984 to every American citizen. It might hopefully open the minds of the millions of Americans who admire Dubya Bush most.
Or once again:
"If you're not with us, you're against us"
I am not the lucky owner of an Xbox but my flatmate is. I'm not a huge gamer, so I can't really compare with the PS2 or the gamecube, but if I was to buy my own game console, I don't think the Xbox would be my pick (even though I would miss Amped :)
Right there is no bluescreen, but it's frozen on me on a few occasions. The next one is most likely a game issue, but menus can be really slow and unresponsive.
An extra £20 for the DVD kit.
Games have the same transparency errors as 32bit games on the PS1 had.
And now our controller has died. After less than a year.
I'd like to know how succesful the launch of the network thing is however.
But still, MS would have to improve things with the Xbox for me to be even remotely tempted to buy one.