If you immediately pitched the game, I wouldn't say that you got it for free.
And that older software is often avaiable in the jewelbox racks for $5-10 anyway. Unless you also want the magazine, it's usually an overpriced mistake to buy the mag just to get the CD.
Those huge 'PC Plus' CD sets are the only exception.
Well, yeah. I guess this is one of those times when it's not as suitable to the advocacy propaganda to claim that "Windows is just DOS", eh?
Why anybody would want to run it as a 'Windows Game' is a little mystifying.... boot up the DOS system. And why anybody is trying to get it up and running on Linux is even MORE mystifying. Is someone going to get TopView, Wordstar 3.3 and Visicalc running on Linux next?
Are you crazy? Of course anything we 'warez' gets burned to CDR. And from what I have heard recently, the shelf life on CDR media is longer than that on mass-pressed CDROMs.
There's a workaround for bypassing the 'eprom' password on Sparcs (actually it's NVRAM with a battery built into the module). You remove the NVRAM chip from it's socket, boot up the system to the OK prompt, then plug the chip in live, with the system running, and make your security changes. I have successfully done this on SparcStations that I bought on eBay that had a password. It's slightly risky, but on older Sparc boxes (all those nice classic SparcStations) it would be NUTS to have to buy new NVRAMs.
There's also a technique to tack on a replacement external battery on those NVRAMs. There's no reason to EVER buy a new one for non-critical boxes. Most of my older Sparc boxes have had that surgery performed on their NVRAM chips (involves actual physical surgery on the module) and live happily powered by a pair of AAA cells.
The thing that concerns me is that the 'free music' types are equating themselves with the sleazy 'buy this car now and don't start paying full retail price on it until it's two years old' promotions. I hear those 'no interest until 2005' promotions and I wonder- why do people think they'll be able to better afford it in 2005 than now? Surely many people who bought one of those deals back in 1997 are regretting it now...
If music must be free lets' at least try to keep it from being a sleazy marketing gimmick.
Thank goodness the CIO isn't in charge of deciding which employees are retained outside his small all-overhead-expense department.
The glass house is dead. I know it makes IT people nervous to think that, but it's true.
The 'personal computer' revolution began when a few non-computer people smuggled in PCs that the stiffs in IT didn't have control over. Suddenly people had more power over their own information. They didn't have to wait for those arrogant guys in the white lab coats in the air-conditioned room with a glass door to shove a printout in the out basket. It bugs central-control guys to hear it, but it's the way things are.
Every once in awhile I 'jones' for the ApplixWare that I bought a commercial copy of for Linux back in 1998. It was pretty nice, to the degree that I used it.
By that thinking, Microsoft, who have implmented some 'reference design' code from BSD, i.e. their TCP/IP code, are a paritally OSS model.
Apple basically coopted a certain amount of the 'OSS image' as a marketing move. They did this at the same time that basically gave up on producing an OS layer of their own with any integrity **. It was a survival tactic on their part.
Granted some of us hate Apple with a passion that makes the Micro$oft haters seem like amateurs, but just as Apple's products have improved over the past several years (the UNIX-coopting MacOS10 as opposed to the pitiful OS9 and earlier **), Microsoft's products have improved as well (W2K as opposed to NT4)
(**What ever happened to all those 'next generation' OS initiatives that Apple was ballyhooing about and spent billions on in the early to mid 90's? They flopped dismally. So Apple infested a UNIX code base with their proprietary goop instead.)
I haven't heard of any cases recently where Microsoft is putting people through shredders, and holding IT staffer's families hostage and threatening to kill them unless they implement an IIS server solution.
Xterms, and other 'thin workstations' are just another 'smarter' generation of dumb terminals. People hate them. The goon in IT makes the server crash, and people congregate in the break room to commiserate about all the productive revenue-producing work that was just lost. Repeat several times.
There's a reason why the people who 'love' the stand alone PC are many times a company's most productive employees.
There's also a reason why the IT types 'push' a technology that makes them, again, central to the operation of the company.
You wouldn't believe the number of Linux desktop installs where Apache (and Sendmail) are enabled. The 'check-off-box' method of prompting a user to install Linux has it's problems. People like to think they're playing with power so they'll install all the server stuff, even if they'll never use it.
Actually, where IIS is dominant is in Workgroup servers on Intranets. Companies have departmental websites, and the administrative secretary and team leaders can open up the web pages with Microsoft Office if they're served on IIS. It cleanly prompts them for a password when they choose 'save' in Word and the web page is updated.
It's kinda one of the things that Netscape was hoping to use their proprietary Server/Client features for before Microsoft drove them out of that market. And it's a big revenue area for Web Servers, unlike where Apache does well. Apache excels in the lose-money sector, where Internet sites are scrambling to find a revenue stream to back up their content.
I know, I know, this sounds like Microsoft marketing boilerplate, but it's how things are.
PDF is an archival output form, in many cases as opaque and uneditable as a bitmap. I wouldn't call it a useful format for documents that are 'live' and need to be editable. It isn't even intended for such purposes. As such, it's a horrible choice as an interoperability format for 'Office' documents.
It's great for 'freezing' things to archive them, of course.
It has historically been common to find Linux in use at cut-rate 'Mom and Pop' ISPs. This has been the case for many years, going back to the mid 90's. In fact, there might be a net decline in commercial Linux server ISP market share due to the demise of many small ISPs as the big boys consolidate the market.
Knowing Larry Ellison he fully knew what the word 'decimate' means in classical usage, and will back his claims up using said defintion. And of course in the true spirit of marketing scum, will turn around and imply the meaning common usage gives to his claims.
I worry about anything Larry Ellision gets behind. Not saying this to besmirch Open Source or Linux, but Ellision is evil, and always has ulterior motives.
Hate and spitefulness are not good forms of advocacy.
Well, I guess this means that a shell corporation could be created with all the hardware manufacturers as members. Any hardware vendor who wants their stuff well-supported under Linux but doesn't want to release the source. The new Line-ucks Corporation can then hire 'employees' at a nominal salary of, say seven cents a decade. These 'employees' would then contribute $80 each to the break room coffee fund and get their copy of the binaries of the new closed-source Line-ucks Operating systems.
EmmPeeThree Corporation could also be formed, either as a seperate body or a subsidiary. The subsidiary idea might be best, as then they can share a common corporate logo, featuring a drifter-sort giving the finger to a bearded hippie and his guitar-playing buddy.
The point being: so few people have seen a Windows XP BSOD that it was necessary to bring in one from the much, much less stable NT 4.0. And since the whole skit is playing to a Linux zealot audience, they wouldn't know as the last time they ran a Microsoft OS was when NT 4.0 was current.
Actually, some of the humor in this RFC is that it mocks the futile 'consensus' basis of all the RFCs.
Take it just a little bit serious and you say to yourself 'Wait a minute, this isn't that funny. People really do believe a consensus-based network will scale well worldwide....'
Your Kreskin link is dead. Now, this probably doesn't matter to some readers, but there are those of us who can tell an authentic 'BSD is Dead' post by wether the Kreskin link is an href or just plain text, indicating the post is a cheap cut-and-paste job.
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Does the fax from DNC headquarters say 'claim to be a libertarian' this week?
If you immediately pitched the game, I wouldn't say that you got it for free.
And that older software is often avaiable in the jewelbox racks for $5-10 anyway. Unless you also want the magazine, it's usually an overpriced mistake to buy the mag just to get the CD.
Those huge 'PC Plus' CD sets are the only exception.
Well, yeah. I guess this is one of those times when it's not as suitable to the advocacy propaganda to claim that "Windows is just DOS", eh?
Why anybody would want to run it as a 'Windows Game' is a little mystifying.... boot up the DOS system. And why anybody is trying to get it up and running on Linux is even MORE mystifying. Is someone going to get TopView, Wordstar 3.3 and Visicalc running on Linux next?
Are you crazy? Of course anything we 'warez' gets burned to CDR. And from what I have heard recently, the shelf life on CDR media is longer than that on mass-pressed CDROMs.
There's a workaround for bypassing the 'eprom' password on Sparcs (actually it's NVRAM with a battery built into the module). You remove the NVRAM chip from it's socket, boot up the system to the OK prompt, then plug the chip in live, with the system running, and make your security changes. I have successfully done this on SparcStations that I bought on eBay that had a password. It's slightly risky, but on older Sparc boxes (all those nice classic SparcStations) it would be NUTS to have to buy new NVRAMs.
The technique is documented here. And here. And here too.
There's also a technique to tack on a replacement external battery on those NVRAMs. There's no reason to EVER buy a new one for non-critical boxes. Most of my older Sparc boxes have had that surgery performed on their NVRAM chips (involves actual physical surgery on the module) and live happily powered by a pair of AAA cells.
The thing that concerns me is that the 'free music' types are equating themselves with the sleazy 'buy this car now and don't start paying full retail price on it until it's two years old' promotions. I hear those 'no interest until 2005' promotions and I wonder- why do people think they'll be able to better afford it in 2005 than now? Surely many people who bought one of those deals back in 1997 are regretting it now...
If music must be free lets' at least try to keep it from being a sleazy marketing gimmick.
Sure, there are alternative 'kludge' methods that can be used. That 'edit' button in Internet Explorer is easier to train people how to use, though.
Departmental web servers on intranets aren't exposed to 'the internet worldwide.' That's an entirely seperate market segment for web servers.
Thank goodness the CIO isn't in charge of deciding which employees are retained outside his small all-overhead-expense department.
The glass house is dead. I know it makes IT people nervous to think that, but it's true.
The 'personal computer' revolution began when a few non-computer people smuggled in PCs that the stiffs in IT didn't have control over. Suddenly people had more power over their own information. They didn't have to wait for those arrogant guys in the white lab coats in the air-conditioned room with a glass door to shove a printout in the out basket. It bugs central-control guys to hear it, but it's the way things are.
Every once in awhile I 'jones' for the ApplixWare that I bought a commercial copy of for Linux back in 1998. It was pretty nice, to the degree that I used it.
By that thinking, Microsoft, who have implmented some 'reference design' code from BSD, i.e. their TCP/IP code, are a paritally OSS model.
Apple basically coopted a certain amount of the 'OSS image' as a marketing move. They did this at the same time that basically gave up on producing an OS layer of their own with any integrity **. It was a survival tactic on their part.
Granted some of us hate Apple with a passion that makes the Micro$oft haters seem like amateurs, but just as Apple's products have improved over the past several years (the UNIX-coopting MacOS10 as opposed to the pitiful OS9 and earlier **), Microsoft's products have improved as well (W2K as opposed to NT4)
(**What ever happened to all those 'next generation' OS initiatives that Apple was ballyhooing about and spent billions on in the early to mid 90's? They flopped dismally. So Apple infested a UNIX code base with their proprietary goop instead.)
I haven't heard of any cases recently where Microsoft is putting people through shredders, and holding IT staffer's families hostage and threatening to kill them unless they implement an IIS server solution.
People. Hate. Dumb. Terminals.
Xterms, and other 'thin workstations' are just another 'smarter' generation of dumb terminals. People hate them. The goon in IT makes the server crash, and people congregate in the break room to commiserate about all the productive revenue-producing work that was just lost. Repeat several times.
There's a reason why the people who 'love' the stand alone PC are many times a company's most productive employees.
There's also a reason why the IT types 'push' a technology that makes them, again, central to the operation of the company.
You wouldn't believe the number of Linux desktop installs where Apache (and Sendmail) are enabled. The 'check-off-box' method of prompting a user to install Linux has it's problems. People like to think they're playing with power so they'll install all the server stuff, even if they'll never use it.
That's one I hadn't heard. Larry Ellison putting lots of money in medical research?
Is he back at it with his amateur gynecology practice again, then?
Actually, where IIS is dominant is in Workgroup servers on Intranets. Companies have departmental websites, and the administrative secretary and team leaders can open up the web pages with Microsoft Office if they're served on IIS. It cleanly prompts them for a password when they choose 'save' in Word and the web page is updated.
It's kinda one of the things that Netscape was hoping to use their proprietary Server/Client features for before Microsoft drove them out of that market. And it's a big revenue area for Web Servers, unlike where Apache does well. Apache excels in the lose-money sector, where Internet sites are scrambling to find a revenue stream to back up their content.
I know, I know, this sounds like Microsoft marketing boilerplate, but it's how things are.
PDF is an archival output form, in many cases as opaque and uneditable as a bitmap. I wouldn't call it a useful format for documents that are 'live' and need to be editable. It isn't even intended for such purposes. As such, it's a horrible choice as an interoperability format for 'Office' documents.
It's great for 'freezing' things to archive them, of course.
It has historically been common to find Linux in use at cut-rate 'Mom and Pop' ISPs. This has been the case for many years, going back to the mid 90's. In fact, there might be a net decline in commercial Linux server ISP market share due to the demise of many small ISPs as the big boys consolidate the market.
Knowing Larry Ellison he fully knew what the word 'decimate' means in classical usage, and will back his claims up using said defintion. And of course in the true spirit of marketing scum, will turn around and imply the meaning common usage gives to his claims.
I worry about anything Larry Ellision gets behind. Not saying this to besmirch Open Source or Linux, but Ellision is evil, and always has ulterior motives.
Hate and spitefulness are not good forms of advocacy.
Well, I guess this means that a shell corporation could be created with all the hardware manufacturers as members. Any hardware vendor who wants their stuff well-supported under Linux but doesn't want to release the source. The new Line-ucks Corporation can then hire 'employees' at a nominal salary of, say seven cents a decade. These 'employees' would then contribute $80 each to the break room coffee fund and get their copy of the binaries of the new closed-source Line-ucks Operating systems.
EmmPeeThree Corporation could also be formed, either as a seperate body or a subsidiary. The subsidiary idea might be best, as then they can share a common corporate logo, featuring a drifter-sort giving the finger to a bearded hippie and his guitar-playing buddy.
The point being: so few people have seen a Windows XP BSOD that it was necessary to bring in one from the much, much less stable NT 4.0. And since the whole skit is playing to a Linux zealot audience, they wouldn't know as the last time they ran a Microsoft OS was when NT 4.0 was current.
Actually, some of the humor in this RFC is that it mocks the futile 'consensus' basis of all the RFCs.
Take it just a little bit serious and you say to yourself 'Wait a minute, this isn't that funny. People really do believe a consensus-based network will scale well worldwide....'
Um... okay.
Your Kreskin link is dead. Now, this probably doesn't matter to some readers, but there are those of us who can tell an authentic 'BSD is Dead' post by wether the Kreskin link is an href or just plain text, indicating the post is a cheap cut-and-paste job.
A suggested new link for Kreskin is here.
Thank you.