This is really important to note because Microsoft doesn't have the same stranglehold on which browser gets installed on the Mac like they do on the PC
Is that really true? I have not seen a Macintosh for a long time that did not come with Internet Explorer (and not Netscape) all the Powerbooks/ Imacs/ and G3's that are sold at my University come from the factory with such a configuration.
Our Mac guy told me that part of the deal MS conviced Apple to agree to forced IE to be included with recent MacOS cd's in exchange for the creation of a Macintosh version of MS Office. Can anyone verify this?
My greatest congratulations to all those who make Redhat available. The last version I used was 5.2 before my switch to debian, but RedHat, Caldera, etc are certainly making Linux known to big business and the world. I wish them the very best and look forward to see how this endeavor migh benefit RedHat, but mostly its effect on the Linux community as a whole.
Linux is a UNIX-like operating system. Linux fundamentally relies on 30-year-old operating system technology and architecture.
It is so strange that Microsoft claims Linux is equal to unix and Unix Vendors make linux sound like the comparision isn't even close.
Linux was not designed from the ground-up to support symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP), graphical user interfaces (GUI), asynchronous I/O, fine-grained security model, and many other important characteristics of a modern operating system
No, that's true, but was windows? As I understand win9x was an attempt to copy the easy things from unix ala DOS. Is the NT kernel really that different?
Linux performance and scalability is architecturally limited in the 2.2 Kernel.
Yes, that's true, and we all know that PPC version of Windows is in beta somewhere, right? The hell? Windows really just runs on two platforms, x86 and alpha and I'm sure the "scalability" is limited by platform as well.
Does NT have a journaling file system? It might, when I turn it off "the bad way" it does not complain like win9x. Anyone know?
Linux security is all-or-nothing. Administrators cannot delegate administrative privileges: a user who needs any administrative capability must be made a full administrator, which compromises best security practices.
Yeah, you're right, Linux doesn't have anything like NT's permission system which is a rip off of unix, wait... it does moron. Also, ever heard of sudo? or groups? This one makes no sense.
Linux as a desktop operating system makes no sense. A user would end up with a system that has fewer applications, is more complex to use and manage, and is less intuitive.
Thats how I like it.
You can take your notepad and that damn paper clip guy and the annoying way to change file permissions and the silly non-case sensitive [aA] in [Aa]dmininstator and peddle it to someone else.
Disclaimer, Yesterday my NT machine at work surprised me by displaying the root directory's files and addresses on a horrid blue background. Needless to say I was none to pleased.
Granted I am only a little experience with the macOS, but when I asked our MAC guys if booting from a disk was possible, they told me the system was way to big to do so.
If you know of a way to boot any modern macintosh with a floppy, please email, although I'm pretty sure it is not possible.
Can anyone explain the MAC boot up process? How might I boot a MAC off a linux floppy? What changes might I have to make to an existing ext2 formatted floppy which works fine on my i686?
The original poster was not complaining that the IMAC was without a floppy, but that Apple was making a brain-dead marketing move by not including some kind or writable/removable medium inside the imac. I would wager a guess that Imation would practically give zipdrives to imac users if it meant the zipdisk became the new definitive standard.
Yes, I know you can buy a removable drive and many do, but if they already had the drive, they wouldn't think twice about buying media for it.
The Previous poster is mistaking. AFAIK sniffing is restricted to a single subnet, so if the sniffer was on my own subnet or the mirrors he could potentially find me. What a headache with all the other traffic.
A more workable idea would be to:
Write a cool software program
Package it
Become a Debian developer
Work diligently and become regarded as someone truly in the know so that you can upload your packages without someone checking them.
Hooray, your Trojan infects many innocent Debian users.
The next day it is fixed and your Developer status is revoked.
Windows comes pre-installed and some/most of its user base do consider reinstalling to be a serious chore worthy of a weekend at the very least, while the underdog (BSD/linux) OS's do not.
Is the cooling unit very loud? I have a tiny dorm 'fridge that produces the the most annoying sound, I couldn't imagine that in my office even if it did mean better Q3 performance.
Tom's Hardware is usually very current. This article seems a little old. Anyone know if that is the fault of Tomshardware or Slashdot?
In any case. It was a great read. Everyone go out and buy a computer which doubles as a place to keep icecream cold.
At my college the Lab of machines (Win 95)rebuild themselves using PC-Rdist after a user logs out. On the newest machines (Dell 450mhz) This process is under a minute. On some of the lower end machines it is considerably longer, but still useful. This seems much more workable to me than restoring from a ghost image which it sounds as though you are doing.
Taking part in a pilot program that could revolutionize education...
One server and many clients is not revolutionary. Is it not a step back? The beauty of individual machines is redundancy. Anyone have a guess as to what the server machine(s) might cost. The article estimated the price of the terminals at $400, but what about software, And the monster machines to control all those terminals?
It does seem pretty useful that school material could be stored on a central machine for each student, but that is possible with PC's and netware or some other network volumes.
I'm all for this, but I do not want my work machine replaced with by something with no storage, yet I fear this is the future (and past)
How can I bypass "This game require Windows 95" ? The SETWIN95.CMD program has the ability to make a program think it is running under Windows 95. If a game comes up with a message like "This game requires Windows 95" when you try to run the game, then you can try SETWIN95.CMD on To use SETWIN95 do the follow: Put in the NT 4.0 CD, Copy setwin95.cmd and imagecfg.exe from \support\debug\i386 in your system path. You can use SETWIN95 with setwin95 title.exe.
The GPL (!) and free software are the start of an era. Free software had already changed much of the world (Ever heard of perl, php, apache... for god's sake).
Everything in linux should be open sourced. If there is commercial product you can be sure an open source alternative is under development. Free beats money leaving my pocket any day, even if it requires a little more work.
Anyone find it a little strange that Corel based its distro on Debian, the distro that is the most strict about levels of free-ness and using GPL'd software and then broke the GPL?
They can't FORCE the colleges to use windows and as for handing it out free to students, that's pretty silly. Most students would buy computerrs preloaded with windows, anyway.
I agree. The term Windows Software as used in the article is a little vague. If it does mean just the Windows operating system then Bill, his, Media people, and everyone else at MS are idiots as... this is just a guess, but don't 90% of x86 machines come with Windows installed?
What I took this to mean was that software deemed useful to colleges (MS Office) would be free. That would save my university a fortune.
Indiana University (IU) recently announced a $6 million deal that enables the university to freely distribute Windows software to all students and faculty.
I don't understand how this will kill linux. At my University the majority use Windows 9x or NT and only those in the know, if you will, are using unix/linux. Free Windows software isn't something that students cannot get at a million warez sites on the web. The people I see benefiting from this are college computer labs which are typically mostly windows machines and really could benefit from free version of MS Office and friends.
I really do not see any science or math departments giving up their stable unix/linux for untrustworthy nt. What I forsee is that Universities will have more machines running free linux and (now equally free) nt and not so many costly Unix variants.
Is a tiny "K" or Foot for a root menu any worse than a right-click?
I think so. I love having the menu hidden from view, but only a right-click away.
WM is so pleasing to me as when I start it I have a blank screen (with the exception of a few docked items) and nothing to crowd in on my precious screen space. I do have a good sized monitor, but still the various panels take up too much space for my needs. I know what you might say, that the panels can auto-hide (again, like that all too familiar start-menu), but I really enjoy having the freedom to call up a menu anywhere, not just by pressing a button in the lower-left hand corner.
I also can't wait for enlightenment to mature a little (any maybe become a little more like WM)
... Legos were so much better when I was a child. There was rarely a moment of my childhood when I was not gnawing on those delicious and colorful blocks. They don't taste the same anymore. Did they change the recipe?
Firecracker and X-10 are one in the same (as I understand) I think that is what he was speaking of.. As far as I've seen the X-10 products do not as of yet have a univeral remote, which the original poster would like tosee implimented.
Slashdot Mirror
This is really important to note because Microsoft doesn't have the same stranglehold on which browser gets installed on the Mac like they do on the PC
Is that really true? I have not seen a Macintosh for a long time that did not come with Internet Explorer (and not Netscape) all the Powerbooks/ Imacs/ and G3's that are sold at my University come from the factory with such a configuration.
Our Mac guy told me that part of the deal MS conviced Apple to agree to forced IE to be included with recent MacOS cd's in exchange for the creation of a Macintosh version of MS Office. Can anyone verify this?
My greatest congratulations to all those who make Redhat available. The last version I used was 5.2 before my switch to debian, but RedHat, Caldera, etc are certainly making Linux known to big business and the world. I wish them the very best and look forward to see how this endeavor migh benefit RedHat, but mostly its effect on the Linux community as a whole.
You caught me, I did mean iomega and not Imation.
Linux is a UNIX-like operating system. Linux fundamentally relies on 30-year-old operating system technology and architecture.
It is so strange that Microsoft claims Linux is equal to unix and Unix Vendors make linux sound like the comparision isn't even close.
Linux was not designed from the ground-up to support symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP), graphical user interfaces (GUI), asynchronous I/O, fine-grained security model, and many other important characteristics of a modern operating system
No, that's true, but was windows? As I understand win9x was an attempt to copy the easy things from unix ala DOS. Is the NT kernel really that different?
Linux performance and scalability is architecturally limited in the 2.2 Kernel.
Yes, that's true, and we all know that PPC version of Windows is in beta somewhere, right? The hell? Windows really just runs on two platforms, x86 and alpha and I'm sure the "scalability" is limited by platform as well.
Does NT have a journaling file system? It might, when I turn it off "the bad way" it does not complain like win9x. Anyone know?
Linux security is all-or-nothing. Administrators cannot delegate administrative privileges: a user who needs any administrative capability must be made a full administrator, which compromises best security practices.
Yeah, you're right, Linux doesn't have anything like NT's permission system which is a rip off of unix, wait... it does moron. Also, ever heard of sudo? or groups? This one makes no sense.
Linux as a desktop operating system makes no sense. A user would end up with a system that has fewer applications, is more complex to use and manage, and is less intuitive.
Thats how I like it.
You can take your notepad and that damn paper clip guy and the annoying way to change file permissions and the silly non-case sensitive [aA] in [Aa]dmininstator and peddle it to someone else.
Disclaimer, Yesterday my NT machine at work surprised me by displaying the root directory's files and addresses on a horrid blue background. Needless to say I was none to pleased.
Granted I am only a little experience with the macOS, but when I asked our MAC guys if booting from a disk was possible, they told me the system was way to big to do so.
If you know of a way to boot any modern macintosh with a floppy, please email, although I'm pretty sure it is not possible.
Can anyone explain the MAC boot up process? How might I boot a MAC off a linux floppy? What changes might I have to make to an existing ext2 formatted floppy which works fine on my i686?
The original poster was not complaining that the IMAC was without a floppy, but that Apple was making a brain-dead marketing move by not including some kind or writable/removable medium inside the imac. I would wager a guess that Imation would practically give zipdrives to imac users if it meant the zipdisk became the new definitive standard.
Yes, I know you can buy a removable drive and many do, but if they already had the drive, they wouldn't think twice about buying media for it.
The Previous poster is mistaking. AFAIK sniffing is restricted to a single subnet, so if the sniffer was on my own subnet or the mirrors he could potentially find me. What a headache with all the other traffic.
A more workable idea would be to:
Have a good day.
Windows comes pre-installed and some/most of its user base do consider reinstalling to be a serious chore worthy of a weekend at the very least, while the underdog (BSD/linux) OS's do not.
Is the cooling unit very loud? I have a tiny dorm 'fridge that produces the the most annoying sound, I couldn't imagine that in my office even if it did mean better Q3 performance.
Tom's Hardware is usually very current. This article seems a little old. Anyone know if that is the fault of Tomshardware or Slashdot?
In any case. It was a great read. Everyone go out and buy a computer which doubles as a place to keep icecream cold.
At my college the Lab of machines (Win 95)rebuild themselves using PC-Rdist after a user logs out. On the newest machines (Dell 450mhz) This process is under a minute. On some of the lower end machines it is considerably longer, but still useful. This seems much more workable to me than restoring from a ghost image which it sounds as though you are doing.
Taking part in a pilot program that could revolutionize education...
One server and many clients is not revolutionary. Is it not a step back? The beauty of individual machines is redundancy. Anyone have a guess as to what the server machine(s) might cost. The article estimated the price of the terminals at $400, but what about software, And the monster machines to control all those terminals?
It does seem pretty useful that school material could be stored on a central machine for each student, but that is possible with PC's and netware or some other network volumes.
I'm all for this, but I do not want my work machine replaced with by something with no storage, yet I fear this is the future (and past)
I seem to recall a registry hack that made games think that NT was really 9x and play instead of displaying a simliar message. Perhaps it would help?
See this great NT Registry Page
Here is more info from a different site
How can I bypass "This game require Windows 95" ?
The SETWIN95.CMD program has the ability to make a program think it is running under Windows 95. If a game comes up with a message like "This game requires Windows 95" when you try to run the game, then you can try SETWIN95.CMD on To use SETWIN95 do the follow: Put in the NT 4.0 CD, Copy setwin95.cmd and imagecfg.exe from \support\debug\i386 in your system path. You can use SETWIN95 with setwin95 title.exe.
Agreed. A few professors at my college planned an operating system as their thesis - no actual code. If this is enough, Linus is more than eligible.
I'm gonna sue Nintendo for the pain in my thumb from 11 straight hours of Zelda-64.
gcc and gdb are good enough for me
The GPL (!) and free software are the start of an era. Free software had already changed much of the world (Ever heard of perl, php, apache... for god's sake).
Everything in linux should be open sourced. If there is commercial product you can be sure an open source alternative is under development. Free beats money leaving my pocket any day, even if it requires a little more work.
Anyone find it a little strange that Corel based its distro on Debian, the distro that is the most strict about levels of free-ness and using GPL'd software and then broke the GPL?
They can't FORCE the colleges to use windows and as for handing it out free to students, that's pretty silly. Most students would buy computerrs preloaded with windows, anyway.
I agree. The term Windows Software as used in the article is a little vague. If it does mean just the Windows operating system then Bill, his, Media people, and everyone else at MS are idiots as ... this is just a guess, but don't 90% of x86 machines come with Windows installed?
What I took this to mean was that software deemed useful to colleges (MS Office) would be free. That would save my university a fortune.
Indiana University (IU) recently announced a $6 million deal that enables the university to freely distribute Windows software to all students and faculty.
I don't understand how this will kill linux. At my University the majority use Windows 9x or NT and only those in the know, if you will, are using unix/linux. Free Windows software isn't something that students cannot get at a million warez sites on the web. The people I see benefiting from this are college computer labs which are typically mostly windows machines and really could benefit from free version of MS Office and friends.
I really do not see any science or math departments giving up their stable unix/linux for untrustworthy nt. What I forsee is that Universities will have more machines running free linux and (now equally free) nt and not so many costly Unix variants.
Nope. I ssh/telnet into my home box, download the porn with lynx and view it with hexedit.
Look a nipple: "A1 14 23 42 B1 07"
Is a tiny "K" or Foot for a root menu any worse than a right-click?
I think so. I love having the menu hidden from view, but only a right-click away.
WM is so pleasing to me as when I start it I have a blank screen (with the exception of a few docked items) and nothing to crowd in on my precious screen space. I do have a good sized monitor, but still the various panels take up too much space for my needs. I know what you might say, that the panels can auto-hide (again, like that all too familiar start-menu), but I really enjoy having the freedom to call up a menu anywhere, not just by pressing a button in the lower-left hand corner.
I also can't wait for enlightenment to mature a little (any maybe become a little more like WM)
It's good to see deserving people get recognition. And their publicity greatly benefits linux's development.
... Legos were so much better when I was a child. There was rarely a moment of my childhood when I was not gnawing on those delicious and colorful blocks. They don't taste the same anymore. Did they change the recipe?
Firecracker and X-10 are one in the same (as I understand) I think that is what he was speaking of.. As far as I've seen the X-10 products do not as of yet have a univeral remote, which the original poster would like tosee implimented.
I think he was refering to unix as created "by programmers for programmers" this is obviously not true of the MacOS.