The problem is I can't have a laptop in my pocket, but at least a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500. The 5600 has a bulge because it has a much bigger battery with 1700 mAh instead of 700 mAh on the 5500.
Rumor goes you can put the 5500 battery compartment door onto the 5600, the battery would fit anyway (same contacts).
I prefer to buy an iPaq and then install something like Familiar installed on it. And I'm more productive with it since I don't have to go looking for a Windows machine for half an hour and annoy myself beyond recognition.
Else, my other PDA runs on OpenZaurus, but there's no WinCE version for it, possibly a lucky coincidence. And I'm more productive with OpenZaurus than with WinCE which does not even have something like a shell, or even a real keyboard and handwriting recognition.
And I can emulate the greatest computer ever on the Zaurus - the Amiga classic. No WinCE can offer me that, and Palm neither.
I'm buying fewer and fewer DVDs and CDs. It ain't because they're copy-protected (usually, you can rip that, or if that's impossible, your friendly neighbor has a sound studio and you can rip them easily.
It's because the content sucks. Profusely. I haven't been in the cinema for now something like 6 months. I buy relatively few CDs, most of the Heavy Metal and Death Metal bands started producing lousy music. There's little left to buy. Metallica? Became "Selloutica". The latest Sepultura stuff sucks as well.
Now if I can't play a DVD in my laptop, I simply won't buy it. The test is thanks to the fact that my machine is luggable, doable at my preferred store and quickly accepted as final judgement.
Maybe in Winter, we'll have some better stuff to buy, but before, revenues won't go up in the media industry.
My company switched away from MS on the server side, and now we're getting MacOS and Linux for the desktops (yep, not gone completely Linux - the crowd needs MS Office and PhotoShop).
So far, I haven't had to rebuild a desktop system because something broke so completely I couldn't fix it, and thanks to NIS+, mostly everything has been tidied up.
I do both Unix and Windows, and yes, I am a MCSE as well. However, I'm a bit more open-minded than most zealots and do, from time to time, evaluate Windows solutions. To take an example, there's no real thing like Citrix Metaframe for Linux, in a current version that could work seamlessly with Linux, and of course, it doesn't help if your customers insist on writing software for Windows.
However, we're noticing that our customers start to deploy some Linux as well, and some even got the Ximian module for MS Exchange, and it definitely rocks. For another customer, I set up an SMTP Fire/Viruswall with Exim that Exchange smarthosts to, which saves us a lot of headache. Just, in the Linux antivirus world, there's nothing like Trend Serverprotect for Linux to catch Windows virii. Alas, OpenSource has not overtaken them (yet).
To me, it looks as slowly, we can't trust any software anymore because of this policy. I mostly stopped buying MS products because of this, and a few more companies will find out sooner or later that I'm not their customer anymore.
And even if I could analyze the source code, I don't have the time to do so, especially with big projects like sendmail, or PostgreSQL that I use a lot.
Do it like some cantons in Switzerland - tax vehicles for their weight and their horsepower, and factor in fuel consumption. No fancy GPS for cars. Trucks here have to pay a specific econazi transportation tax, where a solution for the financing of new alpine rail transversals would have been easier:
- every truck registered in Switzerland pays 5000 Swiss Francs flat-rate.
- every truck registered abroad pays according to it's weight.
For Oregon, you can either vote off your local gubmint yokels or what is probably better, tar and feather them, or feed them to grizzlies.
You can have that with AIX, Solaris or MacOS X as well, and very very possibly also with the Redhat AS platform.
What you have with MS, and not yet with other vendors, is an integration of the platform. Just think of Active Directory, MS Exchange 2000, Sharepoint, Internet Explorer etc.
If there's a Linux distro that does something like Active Directory, provides a enterprise messaging platform integrated into the first with all gimmicks like instant messenger, and then provides a desktop OS with the applications a company needs, then something unsatisfactory might happen to Microsoft.
And Novell isn't a contender as it does not supply the whole gamut of software I described that extends to the desktop OS.
Of of course, back then in the French TV, Fist of the North Star (Ken le survivant). Now all the toons are sterile crap. That's why I have a pretty good collection of old toons.
I once had to show up in a chocolate factory where they were running some old Citrix server on NT4 terminal server edition, with some old industrial server serving a special serial interface for packaging boxes onto a pallet and wrapping the whole stuff in plastic. The hardware problem was pretty interesting as the chips the stuff was running on were actually some 6502 and some old UARTs I remember vividly to be found on old ISA serial cards. I luckily had one of these in my stocks, coming from ole Amiga days. A few solder operations later, I turned on that old box, and lo behold, it was running CP/M, with a copyright notice from 1982.
I asked the guy in charge if he was not afraid the hardware would break one day and that it would be irreplacable. Upon this question, he lead me down into the cellar and showed me five fresh PCs of the same time, with the batteries removed so they could not leak! They were still on their first industrial 6502 controller box!
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I'm MCSE as well. And lo behold, I have a very good command of Unix as well (except installing Winmodems, but that's another issue with RH 9), and I actually prefer RH9. No, don't take me for a zealot, but except for gaming, I rarely start up windows. Why?
To explore into this, one must understand that I don't have a CS background. I'm kind of a mechanic. And in Linux, I can go and fine-tune things, at the expense that configuring something is sometimes more difficult. But at least there I can tune it. And if I shoot my system, I don't have to repair it using an intransparent process. In fact, in 99% of the cases, inserting a knoppix CD and mounting my partition in read-write allows me to fix the problem. I can't do that with Windows much too often without buggering the registry or transforming my system into a barebones again. And, oh, my Linux systems don't proactively talk back to distro manufacturer unless I want them to.
If I want to use my favorite development tool (Emacs), I have to install a truckload of stuff on my Win box. On Linux, presto, you can have it. And there are free IDEs even on Linux.
Also, on Windows, lots of stuff is awfully expensive to license, or a PITA to install because of Cygwin requirements. And even after Cygwin, it's still a Windows box. And for a server license, I need to fork over some serious money, which I'm unwilling to do. And furthermore, due to the fact that Linux is less sensitive against virii, I have one problem less.
Basically, I need something that will work for 4 weeks when I'm away, getting my mail, and serve a few webpages and filter spam. And it's definitely cheaper and more fun on Linux. Yet a big part of my income is still tied to Windows as well. Still....but I'm trying to change this a bit.
OK, and how much do 11 Mbps of guaranteed bandwidth cost per month, with a traffic allowance of 3 TB?
At least over here in Europe, that's the price decent car. If I were an AOL customer, I wouldn't be willing to have 1 or 2 dollars every month dedicated to fighting spam.
I'd prefer to pay 1 dollar every month (together with all other AOL customers) to send out a death squad to execute spammers and their families world-wide. Go figure the impact if Ralsky was found with his head blown off the body in a pile of paper catalogs....
Depends. There are webforums that keep the information, although sometimes like the monument The Firing Line has become.
It's just much more difficult to search web forums than Usenet, but they tend to have a better signal/noise ratio.
Always have a professional collection service on retainer. Else, you will run after your money all the time.
I usually tell customers to pay 25 % upfront, 25% on delivery of the service and 50% inside 60 days.
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The problem is I can't have a laptop in my pocket, but at least a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500. The 5600 has a bulge because it has a much bigger battery with 1700 mAh instead of 700 mAh on the 5500.
Rumor goes you can put the 5500 battery compartment door onto the 5600, the battery would fit anyway (same contacts).
So basically this is to hide that the OS sold by MS is partially broken?
I'd definitely call this thing STAIN: S: Superfluous T: Throwable A: Awful I: Interface N: Novelty
There's an Outlook plugin for GroupWise for the people whom the box is crashing or they decide they like Outlook better.
If just Evolution had it too...
That would rather be warwalking, since I doubt they have an awful lot of cars over there.
I prefer to buy an iPaq and then install something like Familiar installed on it. And I'm more productive with it since I don't have to go looking for a Windows machine for half an hour and annoy myself beyond recognition.
Else, my other PDA runs on OpenZaurus, but there's no WinCE version for it, possibly a lucky coincidence. And I'm more productive with OpenZaurus than with WinCE which does not even have something like a shell, or even a real keyboard and handwriting recognition.
And I can emulate the greatest computer ever on the Zaurus - the Amiga classic. No WinCE can offer me that, and Palm neither.
Do they have Internet or even enough electrical power in NK to run Linux or even an SCO operating system?
In this case, it ain't "Godwin's Law", but rather "California's Law".
I'm buying fewer and fewer DVDs and CDs. It ain't because they're copy-protected (usually, you can rip that, or if that's impossible, your friendly neighbor has a sound studio and you can rip them easily.
It's because the content sucks. Profusely. I haven't been in the cinema for now something like 6 months. I buy relatively few CDs, most of the Heavy Metal and Death Metal bands started producing lousy music. There's little left to buy. Metallica? Became "Selloutica". The latest Sepultura stuff sucks as well.
Now if I can't play a DVD in my laptop, I simply won't buy it. The test is thanks to the fact that my machine is luggable, doable at my preferred store and quickly accepted as final judgement.
Maybe in Winter, we'll have some better stuff to buy, but before, revenues won't go up in the media industry.
My company switched away from MS on the server side, and now we're getting MacOS and Linux for the desktops (yep, not gone completely Linux - the crowd needs MS Office and PhotoShop). So far, I haven't had to rebuild a desktop system because something broke so completely I couldn't fix it, and thanks to NIS+, mostly everything has been tidied up.
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Hmmm...the first exloit didn't work, and the second took me more than five minutes to wait for the .class to download so I aborted.
Maybe I'm one of these linux admins actually patching their boxen?
I do both Unix and Windows, and yes, I am a MCSE as well. However, I'm a bit more open-minded than most zealots and do, from time to time, evaluate Windows solutions. To take an example, there's no real thing like Citrix Metaframe for Linux, in a current version that could work seamlessly with Linux, and of course, it doesn't help if your customers insist on writing software for Windows.
However, we're noticing that our customers start to deploy some Linux as well, and some even got the Ximian module for MS Exchange, and it definitely rocks. For another customer, I set up an SMTP Fire/Viruswall with Exim that Exchange smarthosts to, which saves us a lot of headache. Just, in the Linux antivirus world, there's nothing like Trend Serverprotect for Linux to catch Windows virii. Alas, OpenSource has not overtaken them (yet).
To me, it looks as slowly, we can't trust any software anymore because of this policy. I mostly stopped buying MS products because of this, and a few more companies will find out sooner or later that I'm not their customer anymore.
And even if I could analyze the source code, I don't have the time to do so, especially with big projects like sendmail, or PostgreSQL that I use a lot.
If I take out my dictionary, I see "create" as a synonym of "fabricate". So if we rewrite the sentence it says "BSA fabricates piracy statistics"
Or said in again another way - they make them up.
Do it like some cantons in Switzerland - tax vehicles for their weight and their horsepower, and factor in fuel consumption. No fancy GPS for cars. Trucks here have to pay a specific econazi transportation tax, where a solution for the financing of new alpine rail transversals would have been easier: - every truck registered in Switzerland pays 5000 Swiss Francs flat-rate. - every truck registered abroad pays according to it's weight. For Oregon, you can either vote off your local gubmint yokels or what is probably better, tar and feather them, or feed them to grizzlies.
You can have that with AIX, Solaris or MacOS X as well, and very very possibly also with the Redhat AS platform.
What you have with MS, and not yet with other vendors, is an integration of the platform. Just think of Active Directory, MS Exchange 2000, Sharepoint, Internet Explorer etc.
If there's a Linux distro that does something like Active Directory, provides a enterprise messaging platform integrated into the first with all gimmicks like instant messenger, and then provides a desktop OS with the applications a company needs, then something unsatisfactory might happen to Microsoft.
And Novell isn't a contender as it does not supply the whole gamut of software I described that extends to the desktop OS.
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Of of course, back then in the French TV, Fist of the North Star (Ken le survivant). Now all the toons are sterile crap. That's why I have a pretty good collection of old toons.
I once had to show up in a chocolate factory where they were running some old Citrix server on NT4 terminal server edition, with some old industrial server serving a special serial interface for packaging boxes onto a pallet and wrapping the whole stuff in plastic. The hardware problem was pretty interesting as the chips the stuff was running on were actually some 6502 and some old UARTs I remember vividly to be found on old ISA serial cards. I luckily had one of these in my stocks, coming from ole Amiga days. A few solder operations later, I turned on that old box, and lo behold, it was running CP/M, with a copyright notice from 1982. I asked the guy in charge if he was not afraid the hardware would break one day and that it would be irreplacable. Upon this question, he lead me down into the cellar and showed me five fresh PCs of the same time, with the batteries removed so they could not leak! They were still on their first industrial 6502 controller box!
I'm MCSE as well. And lo behold, I have a very good command of Unix as well (except installing Winmodems, but that's another issue with RH 9), and I actually prefer RH9. No, don't take me for a zealot, but except for gaming, I rarely start up windows. Why?
To explore into this, one must understand that I don't have a CS background. I'm kind of a mechanic. And in Linux, I can go and fine-tune things, at the expense that configuring something is sometimes more difficult. But at least there I can tune it. And if I shoot my system, I don't have to repair it using an intransparent process. In fact, in 99% of the cases, inserting a knoppix CD and mounting my partition in read-write allows me to fix the problem. I can't do that with Windows much too often without buggering the registry or transforming my system into a barebones again. And, oh, my Linux systems don't proactively talk back to distro manufacturer unless I want them to.
If I want to use my favorite development tool (Emacs), I have to install a truckload of stuff on my Win box. On Linux, presto, you can have it. And there are free IDEs even on Linux.
Also, on Windows, lots of stuff is awfully expensive to license, or a PITA to install because of Cygwin requirements. And even after Cygwin, it's still a Windows box. And for a server license, I need to fork over some serious money, which I'm unwilling to do. And furthermore, due to the fact that Linux is less sensitive against virii, I have one problem less.
Basically, I need something that will work for 4 weeks when I'm away, getting my mail, and serve a few webpages and filter spam. And it's definitely cheaper and more fun on Linux. Yet a big part of my income is still tied to Windows as well. Still....but I'm trying to change this a bit.
OK, and how much do 11 Mbps of guaranteed bandwidth cost per month, with a traffic allowance of 3 TB? At least over here in Europe, that's the price decent car. If I were an AOL customer, I wouldn't be willing to have 1 or 2 dollars every month dedicated to fighting spam. I'd prefer to pay 1 dollar every month (together with all other AOL customers) to send out a death squad to execute spammers and their families world-wide. Go figure the impact if Ralsky was found with his head blown off the body in a pile of paper catalogs....
Depends. There are webforums that keep the information, although sometimes like the monument The Firing Line has become.
It's just much more difficult to search web forums than Usenet, but they tend to have a better signal/noise ratio.
Use squid, it's been designed for proxying, whereas with Apache, it's more of an afterthought, or "nomen est omen", a patch.
Looks like somebody had their bandwidth overused. :)
Always have a professional collection service on retainer. Else, you will run after your money all the time.
I usually tell customers to pay 25 % upfront, 25% on delivery of the service and 50% inside 60 days.