"Did you know: You can get all your office work done faster, with more multimedia excitement and internet connectivity with the new Windows Milennium Edition! Order today!"
"Tip of the Day: In order to enable the remaining 95% of functionality, click here to install Windows over/dev/hda1! Windows Milennium Edition works hard and plays hard!"
On second thought, don't rush too much, Beez. I smell FUD on the horizon.
There is no way that anyone at MS (besides the marketing department) is actually doing any work on porting MS Office to Linux. You realize how much programming work that would be, right? This is just another in a long list of PR stunts. MS will never do anything that might reduce its OS leverage, unless the DOJ can force 'em. If that happens, maybe ol' Lucifer should be running for the shovel.
"Oh, you see, that's because our son's Novell pants won't wash in the same WinCE-powered appliance with that Philips jacket of yours... Here, I'll write a little perl script... hmm... hard-code the wash and rinse cycles... almost working... have to add the laundry detergent manually...... *humm* Hey! It works! Isn't technology liberating!"
Well, you could always step back and realize that there are a lot of people on/., and perhaps the people that root for Napster are not necessarily the same ones that denounce the theft of intellectual property. Except for the karma whores.
But then again, "Dog bites man" isn't news, but "Man bites dog" is.
You don't need to shell out for a router! Make your own!
I'm in the Kingston area, on COGEGO@Home, living in a student house. We have six computers sharing a cablemodem connection using a linux box running the Linux Router Project. Very nice. It has no HD, no fan, and does its job quietly and well. A hub and two shitty network cards were all we had to buy.
The cable guys who installed the modem were very understanding about it too... I pretended that my computer was the only one being connected, but strangely enough they ended up leaving behind enough free coax cable so that we could run it into the closet...:)
Bottom line, I have lots of friends who are running LANs behind the scenes, and, at least in the Kingston area, none of them have been hassled.
You're forgetting the exponential consumption of wood and oil that we are consuming as a species. Too bad the planet's supply of both is not logarithmic.
Even Anheiser[sic]-Busch has to refrain from selling a beer called Budweiser in some markets
For those who don't know, the original Budweiser (pronounced Budveiser) is made at the Budvar brewery in the Czech Republik. Damn fine beer, which has been around a long long time.
Her name was Donna, she was an author, / She's been on daytime TV, got a shiny B.Sc. / She wants to censor - all of the porno / But being the EiE VP, that was not enough for she / She had recieved a sign, to protect kids on-line / With a congressional appointment, who could ask - for - more - 'cause the COPA,... (etc)
mmM, taiwanese restaurants are good.... I personally like eating at the Pho'King Bich, or perhaps Pho'Bich Nga, both to be found in sunny Vancouver, B.C.
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"Did you know: You can get all your office work done faster, with more multimedia excitement and internet connectivity with the new Windows Milennium Edition! Order today!"
"Tip of the Day: In order to enable the remaining 95% of functionality, click here to install Windows over /dev/hda1! Windows Milennium Edition works hard and plays hard!"
There is no way that anyone at MS (besides the marketing department) is actually doing any work on porting MS Office to Linux. You realize how much programming work that would be, right? This is just another in a long list of PR stunts. MS will never do anything that might reduce its OS leverage, unless the DOJ can force 'em. If that happens, maybe ol' Lucifer should be running for the shovel.
"Honey, the washer isn't starting."
"Oh, you see, that's because our son's Novell pants won't wash in the same WinCE-powered appliance with that Philips jacket of yours... Here, I'll write a little perl script... hmm... hard-code the wash and rinse cycles... almost working... have to add the laundry detergent manually... ... *humm* Hey! It works! Isn't technology liberating!"
Expensive, large toasters. That require their own 220V power outlet.
Not a single Perl Haiku to be found? C'mon people!
But then again, "Dog bites man" isn't news, but "Man bites dog" is.
Lame, I'm in Kingston, where Bell ADSL and COGECO@Home are the only two choices. DSL.ca sounds sweet.
I'm in the Kingston area, on COGEGO@Home, living in a student house. We have six computers sharing a cablemodem connection using a linux box running the Linux Router Project. Very nice. It has no HD, no fan, and does its job quietly and well. A hub and two shitty network cards were all we had to buy.
The cable guys who installed the modem were very understanding about it too... I pretended that my computer was the only one being connected, but strangely enough they ended up leaving behind enough free coax cable so that we could run it into the closet... :)
Bottom line, I have lots of friends who are running LANs behind the scenes, and, at least in the Kingston area, none of them have been hassled.
And, @Home sucks. Is ADSL any better?
You're forgetting the exponential consumption of wood and oil that we are consuming as a species. Too bad the planet's supply of both is not logarithmic.
For those who don't know, the original Budweiser (pronounced Budveiser) is made at the Budvar brewery in the Czech Republik. Damn fine beer, which has been around a long long time.
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Haha! Nice. Next time get him to use the easteregg Doom clone as a process manager.
Bands like Propagandhi, who used to be on the Fat label, have moved off to start their own indie labels. Check out the G-7 Welcoming Committee.
I don't trust the general population to decide what is and is not appropriate.
Her name was Donna, she was an author, / She's been on daytime TV, got a shiny B.Sc. / She wants to censor - all of the porno / But being the EiE VP, that was not enough for she / She had recieved a sign, to protect kids on-line / With a congressional appointment, who could ask - for - more - 'cause the COPA, ... (etc)
Fun with languages!
Check this out
Lord knows we need another one of those...
Has anyone done a good comparison of Mozilla and Emacs yet? Seems to me they both have a lot in common... and the kitchen sink.
"I want out!"
Courtesy of Stile and the Stile Project.
VAXman, since I can't email you, I'll just have to say, "Well done old chap". That was a very cohesive argument.
That was right before the Africans came out of the jungle and started tribal dancing, I believe. Nelson Mandela would be proud.