Oh for crying out loud, so they toss a couple hundred thousand SCO's way to make sure they don't get sued, who cares? I'm sure EV1 has better things to do than fight it out with SCO's lawyers.. like hosting? If SCO loses their lawsuit then EV1 can turn around and sue them to recover the money. Honestly though, with today's legal system I'd be utterly amazed if SCO DOESN'T win their case and IBM doesn't have to pay up at least $100 million. That'll open the floodgates for suing just about every Linux using company out there. Linux is a nice operating system, but sometimes I have my doubts about the legitimacy of the code. Out of all those millions of lines of code, nobody has slipped in SCO's IP? I doubt it.
There's no such thing as bad publicity. Anything that gets a little-known company attention is bound to be good.
Hell, I never even heard of ev1 before, but now I'm thinking about using them for my dedicated hosting to get my web/mail server off my DSL line and out of my basement. I never really thought about using dedicated servers like that until this article showed up. Huge farms of similar machines sounds easier to maintain than a colocation environment with people bringing in god-knows-what. I just need a generic x86 box running Linux... although they don't seem to support Debian so I guess I can't use them. Perhaps Servermatrix or one of those other ones.
Exactly, once broadband starts spreading like phone lines (though probably not exactly as well distributed), it will mean a lot more competition and a better market, probably with the companies competing with higher and higher bandwidth caps between them
Using the telcos as an example of competition is misguided at best. I can only get phone service through one local carrier, SBC. If I don't want to use them then I don't get to use a landline phone.
Also, in the Hobbit, he kills orcs with a flash of light. As for the Silmarillion, although I have not read it, I have been told that that is more like a history book on Middle Earth than a story. Of all of Tolkien's books, that should be the last one to read. The LOTR series also gets dry unless you skip some of the scenery descriptions. Tolkien loved to describe scenery, to a point that I was like "OK, enough already, lets get back to the story!".
Hmm, I guess that makes sense then. I guess I will try to read through the LoTR trilogy after I see RoTK. I've gone this far without reading it, I might as well not spoil the ending of the movies. I guess I really AM the only one here that has never read the LoTR novels because I really have no idea what happens at the end of them. I imagine good prevails over evil as is customary, but other than that I'm looking forward to seeing it. Perhaps I'll even break down and go to a theater and see it, although I prefer watching DVDs on my projector at home.
My point is, the first two were ok (I know others that hated the first one) for those that didn't read the books. But for those that have, the movies were done well enough to express the books visually (even with the changes that were made). I believe that the ROTK is excellent whether or not you read the books, although this time I can't judge that, because I read them before seeing the movie.
I have to admit I was kidding a bit with the last part of my post, but I seriously have not read the books and am waiting until I watch RoTK before making a decision on whether I will ever read them or not. I tried to read the Hobbit in grade school but found it to be very boring so I never went back. Then later in High School I found a copy of the Silmarillion at a garage sale (which I still have) for a quarter and tried reading that... again, I got about 3 pages into it and lost interest. I guess I find Tolkien's writing style to be dubiously boring at best.
What it all came down to was that I've read many of the more "pop" fantasy D&D genre lines like Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms. LoTR is so different from AD&D that it just becomes confusing to me. For example, Gandalf is supposedly some really powerful wizard, but do we ever see him take out an army of orcs with lightning bolts or fireballs? At least not so far in the first movies. Then people say wizards are different in that world. That's unfortunate since in AD&D type novels, wizards are by far my favorite class.
Did I enjoy the LoTR movies? Sure, like I said they were watchable and the battle scenes in the second one were pretty cool, but Oscar-worthy? Definitely not. So anyway, I will reserve further judgement until I see RoTK, which unfortunately won't be until May when they release it on DVD.
P.S.: I finally went and looked at what the nominee lists were for the Oscars.. I guess of the movies they nominated it was the best picture, but it must've been a bad movie year in general. Master and Commander? Seabiscuit?! WTF?
That made me laugh, and it's sad but true, it literally took one of the greatest achievements in film making to get the movie industry to recognize the fantasy genre as a valid medium of film making, not just a bunch of movies for fanboys in costume.
Now if they'd only recognize comedies as best picture material. How many comedies throughout the years have one best picture?
LoTR tied for most Oscar's all time with Ben Hurr and Titanic. I guess the academy decided to wait for the finish of the series to give the props that they so deserved.
I know I'm going to get a lot of flames for saying this, but I really didn't find the first two LoTR movies to be Oscar quality. I haven't seen the third one yet so I'll have to see how it turns out before I judge the trilogy as a whole. I am curious how the whole thing pans out in the end (no, I didn't read any of the books). I hope the fellowship guys beat the bad guy because it'd really suck to have an unhappy ending with the Mordor guy taking over the entire world with his monsters.
Any way to have this work under Panther? I only have the USB cable that came with it, and would prefer not to get the firewire cable.
Sadly this is one of the areas where Macs far fall behind PCs running Windows. Getting digital video editing going on a Mac is one of the hardest feats you'll ever encounter next to game playing. I'd sell the G5 and pick up a nice Alienware box if I were you. I would be willing to take the G5 off your hands since I'm such a sucker for hard luck cases... how about $1000 for the whole thing out the door and we'll call it even?
Cleveland State has these as well, except they're not marked. Basically when you don't see a car coming, you start walking across the street anywhere you want whether the light is green or red. At least, 90% of the students seem to think that's the proper way to cross the street.
There is one near me. The nearest intersections are probably a 1/4 mile away in either direction. So just to get across the street to the bus stop would be a half-mile walk without this crosswalk. And it's a really busy 4-lane, so just jaywalking without the crosswalk is pretty difficult. Even when it was just a crosswalk, people rarely stopped for you.
Ah, interesting. We don't have these in Ohio then. Cross walks are only at intersections and they either have a stop sign or a traffic signal to stop traffic while pedestrians cross. Seems kind of silly though.. if it's a common pedestrian crossing then they should probably put stop signs there.
These things just command attention, when pressed you can see drivers approaching immediately step on the brakes. IMO they have already saved lives because even I have not noticed the pedestrian before I saw the lights.
I don't understand what you mean. Wouldn't it make more sense just to switch the traffic light to red at the crosswalks? Do you have crosswalks across streets without stop signs or signals? That just seems crazy. Now if a guy is going to blow a stop sign or run a red light then a bright flashing LED sure isn't going to stop them from doing that.
Hmm, I had forgotten how crappy NES games really were. Take away the color and the suckage forms a black hole. Just get a GBA if you want to play games. Sheesh.
And I don't want her seeing even a peek of porn whether I'm standing there or not.
So make up a list of domains she's allowed to visit and restrict her Internet Explorer privileges to those. It's relatively easy and you don't have to worry about an accidental click taking her to a porn site. Anyway, she's 5 so it'd be easier if she just had a bookmarked list she browsed from instead of having to type in websites and go through hyperlinks. I'm sure at that age she isn't going to know how to get around the simple site blocks.
History has shown that when the peasant mass is uneducated, the church and monarchy rule. Are we not heading in this direction again? Technology being the new "power"? How long until the masses catch up and stop being screwed?
Historically speaking it would be about 750 years from now. System administration.. it's the new priesthood! Bow down lusers and pay homage to the messiah Simon.
At home? No. At work, sure it is, that's why we automate everything we can. My Red Hat boxes had a new OpenSSH patch applied for it (via RHN) before I even noticed the vulnerability announcement last fall.
As for at home, my time isn't worth anything. I'd either be sitting on the couch watching TV or playing computer games or browsing the web anyway. I have plenty of free time to do an occasional update.
Why does it have to be installed on Micro ATX? I personally dont see you selling a lot of these, since (even if you dont want to hear this) the average Joe User is not going to be very receptive to a machine with Linux pre-installed.
Put them in those Shuttle cube style cases, forget the modem (if they need a modem they can go buy a USB one) and then do a full install of some friendly Linux setup. The KDE desktop is very nice with the latest release.. I've even switched to it from Gnome. Other than playing games there's nothing I need a Windows box for.
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Micro ATX does not require everything to be half-height. That may be the case (pun not intended) with some Mini-ITX cases, but there are quite a few Micro ATX small tower cases that support full-height, half-length PCI and AGP cards, smaller ATX power supplies and standard drives (be it 5.25" or 3.5").
Heck, my Coolermaster 620 case takes a micro-ATX motherboard but has 4 regular full height slots in the back. Of course, it's also the size of a full 4U size desktop case so I'm not sure why it only takes a micro-ATX board.:-)
No, you save those for a rainy day when you need to exert leverage.:-) Those days are coming up for Microsoft in its battle against Open Source.
If you want to complain about patents then look no further than the current Open Source posterboy company: IBM. They probably file for more patents than any other company. Granted, theirs are actually innovations funded by a hefty research and development budget, but they're still patents.
If an Introduction to Java involves too much coding, perhaps this will never be the field you feel really happy in.
I disagree. Just because you're not happy coding doesn't mean you can't go into computer science. There's a hell of a lot more to computer science than first year programming classes. The trouble is that most colleges treat computer science as a major to teach people how to become code monkeys and that's generally pointless since those jobs are going to India.
Example, I was on the Cisco Advanced Routing Course and the instructor was covering OSPF (a dynamic routing Protocol). He was of the opinion that no one could know what SPF was, but I knew this from my algoriths course in 3rd year.
That's funny, I had the exact opposite experience. I was able to make it through a similar class because I understood OSPF and other routing protocols. When you think of it in terms of OSPF after working with it for years it's a relatively simple concept.:-)
How can you traceroute, ping, dig, whois, host, etc. Honestly, Windows is for users not gurus. Admittidly it's a good desktop, but it by no means is a power OS for administration of networked systems.
Just insist you need a Solaris box to run CiscoWorks 2000 on and then everyone can run Cygwin's XFree86 port. Then run your apps off the Solaris box while exporting your displays to the Windows box. Management sees your using Windows on your desktop, you're using UNIX, everyone is happy. Of course, this could backfire if the management rubs two neurons together and realizes they could just buy a Windows version of CW2000.:-)
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Oh for crying out loud, so they toss a couple hundred thousand SCO's way to make sure they don't get sued, who cares? I'm sure EV1 has better things to do than fight it out with SCO's lawyers.. like hosting? If SCO loses their lawsuit then EV1 can turn around and sue them to recover the money. Honestly though, with today's legal system I'd be utterly amazed if SCO DOESN'T win their case and IBM doesn't have to pay up at least $100 million. That'll open the floodgates for suing just about every Linux using company out there. Linux is a nice operating system, but sometimes I have my doubts about the legitimacy of the code. Out of all those millions of lines of code, nobody has slipped in SCO's IP? I doubt it.
Hell, I never even heard of ev1 before, but now I'm thinking about using them for my dedicated hosting to get my web/mail server off my DSL line and out of my basement. I never really thought about using dedicated servers like that until this article showed up. Huge farms of similar machines sounds easier to maintain than a colocation environment with people bringing in god-knows-what. I just need a generic x86 box running Linux... although they don't seem to support Debian so I guess I can't use them. Perhaps Servermatrix or one of those other ones.
Using the telcos as an example of competition is misguided at best. I can only get phone service through one local carrier, SBC. If I don't want to use them then I don't get to use a landline phone.
Hmm, I guess that makes sense then. I guess I will try to read through the LoTR trilogy after I see RoTK. I've gone this far without reading it, I might as well not spoil the ending of the movies. I guess I really AM the only one here that has never read the LoTR novels because I really have no idea what happens at the end of them. I imagine good prevails over evil as is customary, but other than that I'm looking forward to seeing it. Perhaps I'll even break down and go to a theater and see it, although I prefer watching DVDs on my projector at home.
I have to admit I was kidding a bit with the last part of my post, but I seriously have not read the books and am waiting until I watch RoTK before making a decision on whether I will ever read them or not. I tried to read the Hobbit in grade school but found it to be very boring so I never went back. Then later in High School I found a copy of the Silmarillion at a garage sale (which I still have) for a quarter and tried reading that... again, I got about 3 pages into it and lost interest. I guess I find Tolkien's writing style to be dubiously boring at best.
What it all came down to was that I've read many of the more "pop" fantasy D&D genre lines like Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms. LoTR is so different from AD&D that it just becomes confusing to me. For example, Gandalf is supposedly some really powerful wizard, but do we ever see him take out an army of orcs with lightning bolts or fireballs? At least not so far in the first movies. Then people say wizards are different in that world. That's unfortunate since in AD&D type novels, wizards are by far my favorite class.
Did I enjoy the LoTR movies? Sure, like I said they were watchable and the battle scenes in the second one were pretty cool, but Oscar-worthy? Definitely not. So anyway, I will reserve further judgement until I see RoTK, which unfortunately won't be until May when they release it on DVD.
P.S.: I finally went and looked at what the nominee lists were for the Oscars.. I guess of the movies they nominated it was the best picture, but it must've been a bad movie year in general. Master and Commander? Seabiscuit?! WTF?
Now if they'd only recognize comedies as best picture material. How many comedies throughout the years have one best picture?
I know I'm going to get a lot of flames for saying this, but I really didn't find the first two LoTR movies to be Oscar quality. I haven't seen the third one yet so I'll have to see how it turns out before I judge the trilogy as a whole. I am curious how the whole thing pans out in the end (no, I didn't read any of the books). I hope the fellowship guys beat the bad guy because it'd really suck to have an unhappy ending with the Mordor guy taking over the entire world with his monsters.
Sadly this is one of the areas where Macs far fall behind PCs running Windows. Getting digital video editing going on a Mac is one of the hardest feats you'll ever encounter next to game playing. I'd sell the G5 and pick up a nice Alienware box if I were you. I would be willing to take the G5 off your hands since I'm such a sucker for hard luck cases... how about $1000 for the whole thing out the door and we'll call it even?
Cleveland State has these as well, except they're not marked. Basically when you don't see a car coming, you start walking across the street anywhere you want whether the light is green or red. At least, 90% of the students seem to think that's the proper way to cross the street.
Ah, interesting. We don't have these in Ohio then. Cross walks are only at intersections and they either have a stop sign or a traffic signal to stop traffic while pedestrians cross. Seems kind of silly though.. if it's a common pedestrian crossing then they should probably put stop signs there.
Why would you need a NES emulator? Just play Gameboy Advance games. They're 100 times better than the NES games, AND it'd be in color.
I don't understand what you mean. Wouldn't it make more sense just to switch the traffic light to red at the crosswalks? Do you have crosswalks across streets without stop signs or signals? That just seems crazy. Now if a guy is going to blow a stop sign or run a red light then a bright flashing LED sure isn't going to stop them from doing that.
Hmm, I had forgotten how crappy NES games really were. Take away the color and the suckage forms a black hole. Just get a GBA if you want to play games. Sheesh.
That's really a poor example. Getting lpd printing working on Linux is pretty simple, far easier than Windows.
So make up a list of domains she's allowed to visit and restrict her Internet Explorer privileges to those. It's relatively easy and you don't have to worry about an accidental click taking her to a porn site. Anyway, she's 5 so it'd be easier if she just had a bookmarked list she browsed from instead of having to type in websites and go through hyperlinks. I'm sure at that age she isn't going to know how to get around the simple site blocks.
Yes, sorry, I just assumed everyone knew Simon the BOFH. :-)
Historically speaking it would be about 750 years from now. System administration.. it's the new priesthood! Bow down lusers and pay homage to the messiah Simon.
At home? No. At work, sure it is, that's why we automate everything we can. My Red Hat boxes had a new OpenSSH patch applied for it (via RHN) before I even noticed the vulnerability announcement last fall. As for at home, my time isn't worth anything. I'd either be sitting on the couch watching TV or playing computer games or browsing the web anyway. I have plenty of free time to do an occasional update.
Put them in those Shuttle cube style cases, forget the modem (if they need a modem they can go buy a USB one) and then do a full install of some friendly Linux setup. The KDE desktop is very nice with the latest release.. I've even switched to it from Gnome. Other than playing games there's nothing I need a Windows box for.
Heck, my Coolermaster 620 case takes a micro-ATX motherboard but has 4 regular full height slots in the back. Of course, it's also the size of a full 4U size desktop case so I'm not sure why it only takes a micro-ATX board. :-)
If you want to complain about patents then look no further than the current Open Source posterboy company: IBM. They probably file for more patents than any other company. Granted, theirs are actually innovations funded by a hefty research and development budget, but they're still patents.
I disagree. Just because you're not happy coding doesn't mean you can't go into computer science. There's a hell of a lot more to computer science than first year programming classes. The trouble is that most colleges treat computer science as a major to teach people how to become code monkeys and that's generally pointless since those jobs are going to India.
That's funny, I had the exact opposite experience. I was able to make it through a similar class because I understood OSPF and other routing protocols. When you think of it in terms of OSPF after working with it for years it's a relatively simple concept. :-)
So you get the usability of UNIX with the stability of a Windows NT kernel? Wouldn't it be easier to just boot off a Knoppix CD?
Just insist you need a Solaris box to run CiscoWorks 2000 on and then everyone can run Cygwin's XFree86 port. Then run your apps off the Solaris box while exporting your displays to the Windows box. Management sees your using Windows on your desktop, you're using UNIX, everyone is happy. Of course, this could backfire if the management rubs two neurons together and realizes they could just buy a Windows version of CW2000. :-)