Let's suppose I rewrote say... grep. I decide to call up some of my friends and say "Dudes check this out and see if I've done anything stupid before I show my ass to the world." Would this be a violation of the GPL? If so I expect that Linus and the rest of the gang have violated the GPL thousands of times. There's plenty of really important things to bitch about and this just isn't one of them IMHO.
E-Paying Speeding Tickets Help the Linux OpenBook Project Macromedia Flash for Unix out soon Perl Activists win White Camel Awards Wearable PCs Wacky port of BSD to Dreamcast set top box Belluzo post-SGI joining Microsoft Feature:Open Source as an Ant Farm Review: MySQL and mSQL Internet Addiction Quiz Anakin Actor to Star in Ender's Game Lineo Releases Embrowser Network Solutions to Sell WHOIS Ads (bastards)
None of those crappy, high-reply, get my blood pressure up, troll topics that we've had lately like....well you know the ones.
Good job SlashDot!
I've been complaining about the quality of the articles here so much lately I thought I should post a positive comment when things are good.
I have The Complete FreeBSD right here.....Second Edition. Latest copyright 1997. Was written with troff and formatted Dec 16 1997 running on FreeBSD 3.0 Current. I can't tell what release of FreeBSD I actually have, I don't know where the CDs are... prob 3ish though.
How much has changed since then?
How similiar dissimiliar are the 3 BSDs? I have a SparcServer 630 MP next to me. It's pretty much just making the electric company rich. Can I run a BSD(Net Prob) on it? It's got some wierd bus (has a fiber interface on it among other stuff)that Sun stopped supporting after Solaris 2.5.1 I'd like to put this baby to use but Solaris 2.5.1 is too much of a pain. (useradd vs. adduser etc.)
Only reason I switched to Linux is because there weren't any xBSD books with media at our local bookstore from hell years ago... only Slackware. Did you know that NT has a commandline scheduler? I just discovered this...it's called "at" I'm totally serious.:)
What's with this title? This article has nothing, whatsoever todo with "The Re-Unification of Linux"... the re-unification of Unix maybe, but even that's stretching things a bit. How many Linux distros are there? What are the irritating differences between them? Which ones are better for which applications? Answers to these questions would make an article that could justify the buzz-word Linux in it's title.
I've been a Linux guy for a looong time and it's this kind of misleading hype that makes me want to switch to xBSD just so I can hang out with those seemingly less loud and obnoxious BSD people. Is this kind of crap going to drive us linux users into the closet and make us develop secret handshakes and stuff due to the embarrassment?
Hey.... if I write an article about changing a tire and put the word Linux in it, will it get posted at Slashdot?
This article kicked ass, even if it was like reading from Mother Goose.
We all basically like Redhat right? We want them to do good because we think that will give Linux the respect it deserves and grab that all-important marketshare. What happens when Redhat's stockholders start pulling the strings because their dividends aren't growing by X%. They'll start to throw their weight around and make a few "suggestions". The majority of the stockholders are capitalist businesspeople. They don't generally have as many morals as your typical factory worker. Let alone as many as your typical known-to-be saintly Linux developer. A majority of stockholders can have a CEO removed or can threaten to dump their stocks if the company doesn't do what they want. Eventually they will gain control of Redhat because it's what will make sense tp them and it's how they will reach their goals. Why did Redhat have to go public anyway? What do they need all those millions for? Weren't they chugging along just fine before?
What happens if Redhat replaces Microsoft as the monopolistic, shove their buggy OS down your throat company? Or Microsft buys Redhat? Are all you Linux coders going to continue to give their work to these people? I think not. When that happens there will be a revolution just like the one we're having now.
I have never quite understood why the Linux community wants to dominate the market. I'd prefer Linux was a secret society with cool secret handshakes and stuff. Why do you care if I like WindowsX? Doesn't it make more sense to just snicker and tell me I'm stupid rather than try to convert me? I admin 2 Linux (SuSE) servers, 1 Solaris server and an NT Intranet server. I have found Linux to be easier to work with than Solaris and just as stable (Except for CDE its rock solid on the Sparc). I've also found Linux to be easier to config than NT and far more stable. If my competition down the street wants to run NT I'm sure as hell not going to try to convert them. I digress...
Redhat going public was a bad thing, unless you do the math on the stock I bought:)
It's be fun..... I wouldn't have any moral reservations about evading something like this.
BTW shame on you/. This post was about as insightful as the typical "Yet Another 999 Windows Tips" crap you see on those "other" sites. Whatever happened to the good old days when you posted stuff like "What is the bandwidth of a nerve?"
I was going to go to bed... but noooo... somebody posts something and now I gotta respond to this one. Microsoft bashing is counterproductive for Linux advocacy even when the fact are correct...... yours are not correct and they're skewed the same kind of way we've seen the enemy twist the words.
For instance: "now 7 different versions of the Windows 98 second edition and they're not all the same product!"
Oh My God!!!!.. Microsoft puts their patches out in chunks, not individually like we do. If they did create a patch for ftp.exe and every other little app that's included in the box I'd be rich running around patching this and that. Microsoft takes all their little patches and combines them into a service pack/new version so the mindless hordes of start button clickers can do a whole lot of patching with one double click.
How many different versions of samba or apache have been released in the last 6 months? I don't know either, but there have been a couple anyway. So if I want to upgrade my webserver I gotto apache.org,/dl the new one, compile it, then do the same for my windows sharing client/server (samba). Microsoft's way is to create a service pack that contains all that stuff. Is their method better? Probably for them. Should they get bitched at for this practice? Should Apache or Perl get bitched at for releasing bug fixes often? I don't think so. Why is it if Redhat releases a new version, they're gods and if Microsoft releases one they're stupid money grubbing, bad code writing, assholes (mind you I'm NOT saying they're not money grubbing, bad coding, assholes).
As far as backward compatibility? They win hands down.... Which is why they will eventually fail. I've got 16 bit win 3.1 apps, EGA dos apps etc., running on a 98 FE (First Edition:) box. Yeah, it crashes daily and yeah, I don't like it but it's a necessary evil at this point. Microsoft cannot alienate their customer base without taking a serious, serious, hit. Linux shows up, it's free, no one in their right mind would ever bitch at Linus 'cause him and his group are doing us all a favor and you don't look a gift horse in the mouth. If, next week, Linus says "hey Xwindows won't work with our new kernel" the guys who are doing the hacking, hunker down and modify X. Those of us who aren't that talented, wait patiently and are very grateful when the Xwin guys get things working and we can up to the new, new kernel. I've had this thought for months now and am amazed I haven't heard any of you guys suggest it yet......
Microsoft has painted themselves into a corner and can't seem to see a way out. They're got an unstable OS (any of them except weak old dos) and have billions of lines of code in their dlls that they've built their little house of cards on. Their oses have to continue to get less stable, unless they clean house. They have a really big house with a lot of clutter and it will be difficult if not impossible to clean without accidently breaking some windows (get it? hehe).
Here's my prediction... and you all won't like it.
Microsoft will create their own, Linux distrib. I'll bet they're working on it right now. They would get the best of both worlds that way. Let's call it micro-nix. They have some very talented people, slick installs, cpu power out the butt (they need it, you all know why), a wan that the US gov would kill for, a marketting group from hell (I think that's pretty obvious) and their gaggle of lawyers. They'll start porting office (their only decent product if you exclude Access IMHO) Now they'll start out all fine and well and stick to the GNU/GPL and with their huge marketing engine they'll capture every newbie Linux wannabe for the next 3 years. And it'll probably be pretty good. They'll create their own window manager and install/configuration app and everyone except us hardcore Open Source people will buy their distrib for $25 or $35 bucks. Next thing you know they'll start whittling away at the GPL and begin to change things just a bit to break everyone else. Just look at what they did to HTML 3.X . We'll take them to court and it'll get stalled, drug out till we're out of cash and their lawyers will rip up the GPL. Next thing you know, they're right back in the driver's seat and are busy monopolizing once again. Hey Slashdot guys, this would be a good discussion all in itself.
How much negative coverage of Win9X/NT have you ever read about in the standard media? I get 3 or 4 idiot PC mags a week (They just started showing up one day I don't know why) and You never ever hear anything bad about whatever the current Microsoft OS is. Security holes/bugs are never mentioned till the service pack is available. Even then, the articles are slanted to make us want to thank Microsoft for saving our data or fixing our computer.
It will undoubtably be difficult to keep all the negative Microsoft coverage from/. out of your mind when you're thinking back but I guarantee there hasn't been much negative Microsoft OS coverage.
Who's to say it's not "Open" already? Yyou can't tell me that copies of that database haven't gotten out already. I can register a new domain and use a newly created email address as the billing contact and get spammed within 24 hours every friggin time. Somebody's either hacked it our more likely money bumps into some dried up bubblegum on a daily basis. Does this mean I'm one of those wacked out conspiracy people?
Who says we can't burn SuSE CDs? We used to copy shareware floppies back in the BBS days all the time. Copying/uploading shareware to the BBSs was encouraged by the shareware authors.
Most of them would even let you charge a small fee for the media and the pain of doing a diskcopy. The GPL is a wonderful thing but there are other licenses that aren't too shabby either.
I'm amazed that anyone would bitch about getting anything on a CD.... I have a T1 at the office and a modem at home. I don't want to download vmware or via voice from home if I can help it. Just my.02
This whole thing pisses me off... I saw it coming years ago but couldn't think of a way to do anything about it. We were led to believe that the Internic was a not for profit division of Netwinksolutions. When they started charging for domain names I didn't bitch I realized it takes some serious hardware to handle that database. I watched and helped network solutions create a monopoly.
Now Nutwink Solutins is practically hosting websites! Where in the hell do they get off? Where was Uncle Sam when I was starting out? Why didn't I get setup with a buttload of money and talk about a captive audience!
I don't understand why we can run our own DNS but not register domain names and host a little piece of the whois database just like we do with dns. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems doable to me.
And why does www.internic.net have a link to netwadsolutins right at the top but no link to register.com or any of the others?
And this is the clincher..... how can the whois database be theirs? I typed in the info for 60 or 70 domain names and no one has mentioned anything to me about being a non-paycheck getting, data entry person who works for Nitwit Solutions.
Let's take a look at the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution (Yeah I'm from the US)
These were great documents written by a bunch of guys who mostly meant well. Statements like "all men are created equal" and "we the People" were put forth as law from guys who "owned" slaves.
The constitution was written with as much forethought as possible in an attempt to keep the new country from falling into the same traps that they believed Britain had fallen into.
Now take a look at the US.
This is cycle that is as old as humanity and doesn't seem to be getting any better IMHO.
/. is great! It's new, fresh, and honest (unless you like Microsoft products), not too much unlike the US in the 1700's. Eventually, however,/. - like sites will get corrupted just like everything else. New ones will replace them and they'll be wonderful for awhile then they'll go the way of big business or close-mindedness and begin chipping away at our "rights". It's happened to just about every organized group of humans in history. I remember seeing a post here on/. About a Perl book review. People were posting prices of various book-selling websites and one of the prices was snipped.
You can't blame someone for not wanting to advertise the fact that they or their friend sells the same product at a higher price than a competitor's can you? I wouldn't and I would have snipped the post too. But hey, I'm a capitalist pig, and darn proud of it. These little things creep in and pretty soon we've got cops pulling us over and taking our lunch money......err fining us for a seatbelt violation.
I believe/. is one of the all-time great sites and I hope it will remain so for as long as possible but unfortunately all good things must eventually come to an end. Now we'll see how much of this gets posted.
"Well, face it, the vast majority of society cannot be trusted to make responsible decisions about drugs."
So you're saying that Clinton and Co. are more capable of making my drug decisions for me???
Or maybe you mean the church???
If our government would keep it's nose out of things, natural selection would once again take over and people who are too stupid or lazy or depressed to not get addicted and OD would OD and die.
I've tried it all and used to smoke some serious pot and drank whole bunches of beer... I'm not as smart as I used to be and regret much of what I have done. I reliazed real quick that cocaine was way too addicitve and gave it up after the third time. It wasn't easy even after 3 times but no one made me do it.
This is my first post and It's gonna be a wopper. Here goes....
Let me start by saying this. I have a Sun server 630MP (Solaris 2.51) a P2-350 (win98) a P2-266 (Suse 6.0) and some other older crap here in the old basement with me. I use them all and I run a fairly busy Linux (Suse 5.3/Apache) web server. Which resides at my office with a bunch of 98 machines and an NT Server primary domain controller behind a firewall. I feel I have a pretty open mind, and while although, I'm not an expert at with any of these Os's I get by in all of them.
Microsoft stuff crashes? Hell yes (Nt server at work uptime 70 or 80 days... last down to add a modem... just lucky I think) Linux crashes? hell no (uptime= infinity)
Microsoft put a computer on everyone's desk? Yepper (with a little help from Apple and Amiga among others.) Linux put a computer on everyone's desk? Nope it wasn't even really around when the PC craze started.
Microsoft made the Internet take off? (from a home perspective) Sorta with a little help from Trumpet Winsock and Nutscape, cause Billy was sleeping. Microsoft keeps the Internet going? Ha! Linux/Solaris/BSD and Cisco make the Internet go.
Microsoft created win95/98/Nt's explorer interface? We assume so (copied from the Mac?) You can't look at KDE and not realize it's trying it's best to look like Windoze. right down to the K/Start button and the "settings" menu option. Course then there's Enlightment (Oooh Aahhh seriously cool stuff)
Microsoft made office? Yep and it really was pretty good. Star office, a better interface? Nah it looks/feels nearly identical.
It's pretty easy (way beyond me however) to look at Microsft products and improve upon them. Microsoft can't just stop what they're doing/have done and say... "Ok people this dll situation is way out of control we're going to create a new OS and all the software you've bought won't work with this new OS... you're just SOL. So they're stuck. Linux is new (ie. A better stronger faster foundation/kernel) and free! Linux developers get a kick out of rewriting their apps to work with the newest kernel in record time. And Linux developers can say hey this whole VB thing is shit and we're not gonna take it any more, and they can get away with it. Microcrap can't.. without loosing their little war immediately. They're gonna loose eventually there's no way around it.
Windoze has a registry? how stupid can they be? What was wrong with those lovely little ini files anyway? Linux has about a billion conf files? Currently necessary but a pretty big pain for someone like me who refuses to use linuxconfig or YaST in order to seek the truth.
We gotta give them some credit for what they did and understand why they're doing what they're doing now. They're desperate. In the immortal word of Elvis.... "they're caught in a trap". ) Elvis was one of the first rock and roll singers... he can't compare to today's quality of rock and roll but he made rock and roll happen. Witnhelp from others I'm not a music expert and don't really care.
I was having a PPP dialup prob recently and I posted a question to onje of those linux newsgroups asking for help. Many posts suggested that I use KPP something or other to connect to the net. THIS IS WRONG! Didn't we learn anything from Microsoft? We can't let ourselves become so dependant on any Windowed app runnig on top of the real os. If we do someone will get greedy and stop giving away what we've become dependent upon or addicted to. It's happened before. Seek the truth always.
G
PS. Billy is the anti-Christ I have proof (Just kiddin Mr. Bill)
PPS. anybody remember an old dos app called 3DMenu? Take another look at a Windoze start button sometime.
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Let's suppose I rewrote say... grep. I decide to call up some of my friends and say "Dudes check this out and see if I've done anything stupid before I show my ass to the world." Would this be a violation of the GPL? If so I expect that Linus and the rest of the gang have violated the GPL thousands of times. There's plenty of really important things to bitch about and this just isn't one of them IMHO.
Have a really great day!
We've got:
E-Paying Speeding Tickets
Help the Linux OpenBook Project
Macromedia Flash for Unix out soon
Perl Activists win White Camel Awards
Wearable PCs
Wacky port of BSD to Dreamcast set top box
Belluzo post-SGI joining Microsoft
Feature:Open Source as an Ant Farm
Review: MySQL and mSQL
Internet Addiction Quiz
Anakin Actor to Star in Ender's Game
Lineo Releases Embrowser
Network Solutions to Sell WHOIS Ads (bastards)
None of those crappy, high-reply, get my blood pressure up, troll topics that we've had lately like....well you know the ones.
Good job SlashDot!
I've been complaining about the quality of the articles here so much lately I thought I should post a positive comment when things are good.
I have The Complete FreeBSD right here.....Second Edition. Latest copyright 1997. Was written with troff and formatted Dec 16 1997 running on FreeBSD 3.0 Current. I can't tell what release of FreeBSD I actually have, I don't know where the CDs are... prob 3ish though.
How much has changed since then?
How similiar dissimiliar are the 3 BSDs? I have a SparcServer 630 MP next to me. It's pretty much just making the electric company rich. Can I run a BSD(Net Prob) on it? It's got some wierd bus (has a fiber interface on it among other stuff)that Sun stopped supporting after Solaris 2.5.1
I'd like to put this baby to use but Solaris 2.5.1 is too much of a pain. (useradd vs. adduser etc.)
TIA
Only reason I switched to Linux is because there weren't any xBSD books with media at our local bookstore from hell years ago... only Slackware. Did you know that NT has a commandline scheduler? I just discovered this...it's called "at" I'm totally serious. :)
What's with this title? This article has nothing, whatsoever todo with "The Re-Unification of Linux" ... the re-unification of Unix maybe, but even that's stretching things a bit. How many Linux distros are there? What are the irritating differences between them? Which ones are better for which applications? Answers to these questions would make an article that could justify the buzz-word Linux in it's title.
I've been a Linux guy for a looong time and it's this kind of misleading hype that makes me want to switch to xBSD just so I can hang out with those seemingly less loud and obnoxious BSD people. Is this kind of crap going to drive us linux users into the closet and make us develop secret handshakes and stuff due to the embarrassment?
Hey.... if I write an article about changing a tire and put the word Linux in it, will it get posted at Slashdot?
This article kicked ass, even if it was like reading from Mother Goose.
:)
We all basically like Redhat right? We want them to do good because we think that will give Linux the respect it deserves and grab that all-important marketshare. What happens when Redhat's stockholders start pulling the strings because their dividends aren't growing by X%. They'll start to throw their weight around and make a few "suggestions". The majority of the stockholders are capitalist businesspeople. They don't generally have as many morals as your typical factory worker. Let alone as many as your typical known-to-be saintly Linux developer. A majority of stockholders can have a CEO removed or can threaten to dump their stocks if the company doesn't do what they want. Eventually they will gain control of Redhat because it's what will make sense tp them and it's how they will reach their goals. Why did Redhat have to go public anyway? What do they need all those millions for? Weren't they chugging along just fine before?
What happens if Redhat replaces Microsoft as the monopolistic, shove their buggy OS down your throat company? Or Microsft buys Redhat? Are all you Linux coders going to continue to give their work to these people? I think not. When that happens there will be a revolution just like the one we're having now.
I have never quite understood why the Linux community wants to dominate the market. I'd prefer Linux was a secret society with cool secret handshakes and stuff. Why do you care if I like WindowsX? Doesn't it make more sense to just snicker and tell me I'm stupid rather than try to convert me? I admin 2 Linux (SuSE) servers, 1 Solaris server and an NT Intranet server. I have found Linux to be easier to work with than Solaris and just as stable (Except for CDE its rock solid on the Sparc). I've also found Linux to be easier to config than NT and far more stable. If my competition down the street wants to run NT I'm sure as hell not going to try to convert them. I digress...
Redhat going public was a bad thing, unless you do the math on the stock I bought
It's be fun..... I wouldn't have any moral reservations about evading something like this.
/. This post was about as insightful as the typical "Yet Another 999 Windows Tips" crap you see on those "other" sites. Whatever happened to the good old days when you posted stuff like "What is the bandwidth of a nerve?"
BTW shame on you
Grrrreg
I've got a $20. People this could be a real opportunity to shine and help this guy.
ooh that hadn't even occured to me. Now I really am scared.
Hey wankers, this dude has $700,000 and he's famous. I bet he's got more cash than most of us and is getting laid more than most of us. Hats off dude.
I was going to go to bed... but noooo... somebody posts something and now I gotta respond to this one. Microsoft bashing is counterproductive for Linux advocacy even when the fact are correct...... yours are not correct and they're skewed the same kind of way we've seen the enemy twist the words.
/dl the new one, compile it, then do the same for my windows sharing client /server (samba). Microsoft's way is to create a service pack that contains all that stuff. Is their method better? Probably for them. Should they get bitched at for this practice? Should Apache or Perl get bitched at for releasing bug fixes often? I don't think so. Why is it if Redhat releases a new version, they're gods and if Microsoft releases one they're stupid money grubbing, bad code writing, assholes (mind you I'm NOT saying they're not money grubbing, bad coding, assholes).
For instance:
"now 7 different versions of the Windows 98 second edition and they're not all the same product!"
Oh My God!!!!.. Microsoft puts their patches out in chunks, not individually like we do. If they did create a patch for ftp.exe and every other little app that's included in the box I'd be rich running around patching this and that. Microsoft takes all their little patches and combines them into a service pack/new version so the mindless hordes of start button clickers can do a whole lot of patching with one double click.
How many different versions of samba or apache have been released in the last 6 months? I don't know either, but there have been a couple anyway. So if I want to upgrade my webserver I gotto apache.org,
As far as backward compatibility? They win hands down.... Which is why they will eventually fail.
I've got 16 bit win 3.1 apps, EGA dos apps etc., running on a 98 FE (First Edition:) box. Yeah, it crashes daily and yeah, I don't like it but it's a necessary evil at this point. Microsoft cannot alienate their customer base without taking a serious, serious, hit. Linux shows up, it's free, no one in their right mind would ever bitch at Linus 'cause him and his group are doing us all a favor and you don't look a gift horse in the mouth. If, next week, Linus says "hey Xwindows won't work with our new kernel" the guys who are doing the hacking, hunker down and modify X. Those of us who aren't that talented, wait patiently and are very grateful when the Xwin guys get things working and we can up to the new, new kernel.
I've had this thought for months now and am amazed I haven't heard any of you guys suggest it yet......
Microsoft has painted themselves into a corner and can't seem to see a way out. They're got an unstable OS (any of them except weak old dos) and have billions of lines of code in their dlls that they've built their little house of cards on. Their oses have to continue to get less stable, unless they clean house. They have a really big house with a lot of clutter and it will be difficult if not impossible to clean without accidently breaking some windows (get it? hehe).
Here's my prediction... and you all won't like it.
Microsoft will create their own, Linux distrib. I'll bet they're working on it right now. They would get the best of both worlds that way. Let's call it micro-nix. They have some very talented people, slick installs, cpu power out the butt (they need it, you all know why), a wan that the US gov would kill for, a marketting group from hell (I think that's pretty obvious) and their gaggle of lawyers. They'll start porting office (their only decent product if you exclude Access IMHO) Now they'll start out all fine and well and stick to the GNU/GPL and with their huge marketing engine they'll capture every newbie Linux wannabe for the next 3 years. And it'll probably be pretty good. They'll create their own window manager and install/configuration app and everyone except us hardcore Open Source people will buy their distrib for $25 or $35 bucks. Next thing you know they'll start whittling away at the GPL and begin to change things just a bit to break everyone else. Just look at what they did to HTML 3.X . We'll take them to court and it'll get stalled, drug out till we're out of cash and their lawyers will rip up the GPL. Next thing you know, they're right back in the driver's seat and are busy monopolizing once again. Hey Slashdot guys, this would be a good discussion all in itself.
Just my $.002
How much negative coverage of Win9X/NT have you ever read about in the standard media? I get 3 or 4 idiot PC mags a week (They just started showing up one day I don't know why) and You never ever hear anything bad about whatever the current Microsoft OS is. Security holes/bugs are never mentioned till the service pack is available. Even then, the articles are slanted to make us want to thank Microsoft for saving our data or fixing our computer.
/. out of your mind when you're thinking back but I guarantee there hasn't been much negative Microsoft OS coverage.
It will undoubtably be difficult to keep all the negative Microsoft coverage from
Who's to say it's not "Open" already? Yyou can't tell me that copies of that database haven't gotten out already. I can register a new domain and use a newly created email address as the billing contact and get spammed within 24 hours every friggin time. Somebody's either hacked it our more likely money bumps into some dried up bubblegum on a daily basis. Does this mean I'm one of those wacked out conspiracy people?
Who says we can't burn SuSE CDs? We used to copy shareware floppies back in the BBS days all the time. Copying/uploading shareware to the BBSs was encouraged by the shareware authors.
.02
Most of them would even let you charge a small fee for the media and the pain of doing a diskcopy. The GPL is a wonderful thing but there are other licenses that aren't too shabby either.
I'm amazed that anyone would bitch about getting anything on a CD.... I have a T1 at the office and a modem at home. I don't want to download vmware or via voice from home if I can help it. Just my
This whole thing pisses me off... I saw it coming years ago but couldn't think of a way to do anything about it. We were led to believe that the Internic was a not for profit division of Netwinksolutions. When they started charging for domain names I didn't bitch I realized it takes some serious hardware to handle that database. I watched and helped network solutions create a monopoly.
:)
Now Nutwink Solutins is practically hosting websites! Where in the hell do they get off? Where was Uncle Sam when I was starting out? Why didn't I get setup with a buttload of money and talk about a captive audience!
I don't understand why we can run our own DNS but not register domain names and host a little piece of the whois database just like we do with dns. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems doable to me.
And why does www.internic.net have a link to netwadsolutins right at the top but no link to register.com or any of the others?
And this is the clincher..... how can the whois database be theirs? I typed in the info for 60 or 70 domain names and no one has mentioned anything to me about being a non-paycheck getting, data entry person who works for Nitwit Solutions.
Did I mention this pisses me off?
Let's take a look at the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution (Yeah I'm from the US)
/. - like sites will get corrupted just like everything else. New ones will replace them and they'll be wonderful for awhile then they'll go the way of big business or close-mindedness and begin chipping away at our "rights". It's happened to just about every organized group of humans in history. I remember seeing a post here on /. About a Perl book review. People were posting prices of various book-selling websites and one of the prices was snipped.
......err fining us for a seatbelt violation.
/. is one of the all-time great sites and I hope it will remain so for as long as possible but unfortunately all good things must eventually come to an end. Now we'll see how much of this gets posted.
These were great documents written by a bunch of guys who mostly meant well. Statements like "all men are created equal" and "we the People" were put forth as law from guys who "owned" slaves.
The constitution was written with as much forethought as possible in an attempt to keep the new country from falling into the same traps that they believed Britain had fallen into.
Now take a look at the US.
This is cycle that is as old as humanity and doesn't seem to be getting any better IMHO.
/. is great! It's new, fresh, and honest (unless you like Microsoft products), not too much unlike the US in the 1700's. Eventually, however,
You can't blame someone for not wanting to advertise the fact that they or their friend sells the same product at a higher price than a competitor's can you? I wouldn't and I would have snipped the post too. But hey, I'm a capitalist pig, and darn proud of it. These little things creep in and pretty soon we've got cops pulling us over and taking our lunch money
I believe
"Well, face it, the vast majority of society cannot be trusted to make responsible decisions about drugs."
So you're saying that Clinton and Co. are more capable of making my drug decisions for me???
Or maybe you mean the church???
If our government would keep it's nose out of things, natural selection would once again take over and people who are too stupid or lazy or depressed to not get addicted and OD would OD and die.
I've tried it all and used to smoke some serious pot and drank whole bunches of beer... I'm not as smart as I used to be and regret much of what I have done. I reliazed real quick that cocaine was way too addicitve and gave it up after the third time. It wasn't easy even after 3 times but no one made me do it.
Give me a break. You are clueless.
This is my first post and It's gonna be a wopper. Here goes....
Let me start by saying this. I have a Sun server 630MP (Solaris 2.51) a P2-350 (win98) a P2-266 (Suse 6.0) and some other older crap here in the old basement with me. I use them all and I run a fairly busy Linux (Suse 5.3/Apache) web server. Which resides at my office with a bunch of 98 machines and an NT Server primary domain controller behind a firewall. I feel I have a pretty open mind, and while although, I'm not an expert at with any of these Os's I get by in all of them.
Microsoft stuff crashes? Hell yes (Nt server at work uptime 70 or 80 days... last down to add a modem... just lucky I think)
Linux crashes? hell no (uptime= infinity)
Microsoft put a computer on everyone's desk? Yepper
(with a little help from Apple and Amiga among others.)
Linux put a computer on everyone's desk? Nope it wasn't even really around when the PC craze started.
Microsoft made the Internet take off? (from a home perspective) Sorta with a little help from Trumpet Winsock and Nutscape, cause Billy was sleeping.
Microsoft keeps the Internet going? Ha! Linux/Solaris/BSD and Cisco make the Internet go.
Microsoft created win95/98/Nt's explorer interface? We assume so (copied from the Mac?)
You can't look at KDE and not realize it's trying it's best to look like Windoze. right down to the K/Start button and the "settings" menu option. Course then there's Enlightment (Oooh Aahhh seriously cool stuff)
Microsoft made office? Yep and it really was pretty good.
Star office, a better interface? Nah it looks/feels nearly identical.
It's pretty easy (way beyond me however) to look at Microsft products and improve upon them. Microsoft can't just stop what they're doing/have done and say... "Ok people this dll situation is way out of control we're going to create a new OS and all the software you've bought won't work with this new OS... you're just SOL. So they're stuck.
Linux is new (ie. A better stronger faster foundation/kernel) and free! Linux developers get a kick out of rewriting their apps to work with the newest kernel in record time. And Linux developers can say hey this whole VB thing is shit and we're not gonna take it any more, and they can get away with it. Microcrap can't.. without loosing their little war immediately. They're gonna loose eventually there's no way around it.
Windoze has a registry? how stupid can they be? What was wrong with those lovely little ini files anyway?
Linux has about a billion conf files? Currently necessary but a pretty big pain for someone like me who refuses to use linuxconfig or YaST in order to seek the truth.
We gotta give them some credit for what they did and understand why they're doing what they're doing now. They're desperate. In the immortal word of Elvis.... "they're caught in a trap". ) Elvis was one of the first rock and roll singers... he can't compare to today's quality of rock and roll but he made rock and roll happen. Witnhelp from others I'm not a music expert and don't really care.
I was having a PPP dialup prob recently and I posted a question to onje of those linux newsgroups asking for help. Many posts suggested that I use KPP something or other to connect to the net. THIS IS WRONG! Didn't we learn anything from Microsoft? We can't let ourselves become so dependant on any Windowed app runnig on top of the real os. If we do someone will get greedy and stop giving away what we've become dependent upon or addicted to. It's happened before. Seek the truth always.
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PS. Billy is the anti-Christ I have proof (Just kiddin Mr. Bill)
PPS. anybody remember an old dos app called 3DMenu? Take another look at a Windoze start button sometime.