I would like to ask ALL the candidates:
Is it not true that there really is NO budget surplus? Is it not true that the dollar figures everyone is tossing around is actually the surplus in the social security fund? (true fact - I researched the "books".).
If "yes" is your answer, how do you plan on funding your new projects, tax cuts etc.. ? If you rob social security to fund your "pet" projects, how will you fund social security, more taxes?
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The hell with the RIAA!
Make every effort to contact the artists you prefer, tell them you would prefer to be able to aquire their music directly from them. The more artists see that the masses would rather get the music from them and more than likely pay less then what they pay for CD's now.
I support at least one musician in this manner. He gives out some of his stuff as MP3's for free download at MP3.com and I buy his CD's direct from him! NO RIAA inbetween! He gets ALL the money.
Also Show the RIAA that downloading MP3's is a good "Try before you buy" program. If you download and like the music, please buy the artists CD. This way part of the RIAA's reasoning that this is all about theft starts to dry up.
Folks,
haven't we learned from the current gas problem here in the U.S. that too much reliance on products and services from outside sources hurts us.
Think about this the more foreign workers we bring into this country the more reliant we get on them. Then, at a future date in time when a whole slew of those visa's expire there will have to be a mass exodus of foreign workers. (But, of course the corporations will bitch and whine and get them extended.) Also, the more foreign workers brought in the less Americans will be needed by big corporations to do the work.
This country needs to start being less reliant on other countries for goods and services and start doing things ourselves. I know this is a strange idea, but we did do this at one point in time in our history. Look at this country WWII and prior. I know someone will mention the Chinese, Irish etc.. that worked on the railroads, and the black slaves that were brought into this country to do the slave labor on the plantations. But, think about this, this is EXACTLY the same thing that is happening with H1-B's! Money grubbing entreprneurs(corporations) using cheap labor. If these companies would be fair with the labor in the U.S. (pay fair wages, fair benifits etc..) and stop relying on cheap foreign labor; more Americans would do an honest days work for an honest days pay. (We also need to get rid of the organized crime run unions! - Yes they are run by organized crime - if you believe the BS your union tells you your a fool. Do the research!)
Maybe the book wasn't finished when it went to press?
If the book wasn't finished that just clearly shows two things:
1) A very crappy publisher - putting a book to print BEFORE it was finshed. Imagine buying a Dean R. Koontz book that wasn't finished. I know I'd be pissed!
2) Very ignorant and piss poor author(s). Authors that let a book go to print before it is finished is just plain silly. They should be ashamed! That just tells me not to buy ANY book by the author, since they have shown to be very sloppy in the past - putting an unfinished book to print.
Solution:
Don't EVER but a book by authors that do this sort of thing and never buy a book from that publisher again. Both have shown they are incapable of having any inteligence and common sense. Not to mention that they are crooks!
Your only getting 100 -200K? Geez your getting ripped. I'm getting 560K + on my 256K DSl line through USWorst. But with all the fiasco going on inside USWest/Quest I have already seen the DSL service start to go to hell. And it will only get worse. I have a few people that work for USWEst/Quest in the class I am taking and there is NO GOOD NEWS comming from the inside! THings are only getting worse!
[Disclaimer] I am not a laywer, just someone who has done a lot of reading of the constituion and the amaendments and the laws of my state! Your state laws my vary.
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If they give you any flack and say they will sue you just plainly and nicely tell them to F*** off!
Then if you get served with papers immidietly contact the judge and tell them you want the case moved directly to a FEDERAL court, as your First amedment rights are being surpressed and turn the whole thing into a constitutional issue. Then the other side will be cought off gaurd and have to decide if they want to take the chance losing and setting a precendece. Use whatever constitutional issue that you can muster up. Use more than one if you can, it makes it much nastier for the other side to justify going to court!
I had this happen ONCE and only once. The sucker drop the case quicker than s*it! (after the judge nicely suggested to the plaintif to do this) Lower level court Judges don't like having to deal with "forced" constitutional issues.
The best thing anyone can do is Know Your Rights! Read the constitution and ALL the emendments over and over until you know them by heart! Then get familiar with as many of the laws of the state you live in. If someone from another state try's to sue you tell them their states laws have no jurisdiction in your state. Unless again they want to go to federal court and turn it into a constitutional issue!
If they contact your ISP and threaten them if they don't take down your website. Tell your ISP you will sue them if they do - based on the same reasons you give the stupid A$$ that wants to sue you. It's simple, Fight Back! Don't take sh*t from anyone!
Back in the late 80's we did this with an Amiga 2000. We bought a multi-eprom board and mounted it in the A2000. We burned the whole amiga OS into EPROMM. The machine booted the OS Instantly!. There were 8 EPROM slots in the board so we had the Whole OS and some small, heavily used programs burned into the EPROMMS. It was awsome!
Of course the Amiga was a hardware hackers dream machine. It was nice having multi-rom boards so you could boot up with Amiga OS 1.1,1.2,1.3,2.0,2.1 at any time. A TRUE multi-boot machine.
I don't see why you couldn't do this same type of thing with Linux. There are a few different "Embedded Linux" distros out there. Just burn them to EPROMM and "Hack" the hardware! Boot from an EPROMM board vs. hard drive. And have the EPROMMed OS mount your hard drive(s) to the OS. Easy? maybe not for the faint of heart. But a truely driven individual could do it.
If someone gets it to work let us all now. Share the wealth per say.
Folks, You all should know by know by now that NO online poll is acurate at all! They are a waste of time. No matter what poll that is put out there on these "corporate" run websites their results will be about as acurate as a sniper rifle with a 90 degree bend in the barrell. I would say don't even waste your time with them. The ignorant PHB's that would actually base business decisions on these things deserve the nasty fallout they would incur. Let the "legend in their own mind" windows crowd believe what ever the hell they want. We all know the truth, and the truth is a virus! It spreads.... The only polls worth any time are the/. polls -- their entertaining!
If your hard drive crashed and you bought another, you'd have to call them again for another install password.
There is one falacy to this. There is a dos program that will allow you to change the Volume ID on your HD (Works great for stupid companies that have their serial # based on your HD Vol ID! can you say Aldon!). So if this situation came up, just have a pre-created boot disk with this dos program on it and change the Volume ID on your HD to the One you previously had (make sure you make note of it when you install the first time!) and Whola! you don't have to call M$ ever again! The program is called VolumeID You can get it by clicking on the "VolumeID" Link Provided!:^).
There is ALWAYS a way around companies blatenly being stupid!
Remember: "There is no such thing as a stupid question, Just a stupid person!"
There is one thing I am fairly sure of though: DeCSS is the tip of the iceberg. Those hackers who have the knowledge, skill and motivation will ceate software that will ignore watermarks and cut through "copy protection devices". Maybe this time
it will be anonymously as well as open source. What the industry execs fear will come to pass despite anything they can do.
Well the "hackers" have already written software that defeats the "mediavision" copy protection. What these stupid companies do not understand is that no matter how smart you think you are, there is ALWAYS someone that is smarter. Copy protections have always been cracked. Heck companies thought that dongle protection was great. Yeah right! anyone with just a hinge of electronics knowledge can duplicate those stupid dongles!
What the MPAA AND the RIAA have to grasp is that if they don't get their head out of their a$$es they will get left way behind, lawsuits or no lawsuits. What they will find will happen is people will get so sick and tired of their cr*p and just start mass posting any and every piece of music they can find and every and any movie they can get their hands on and mass post them on the internet. The only option for the MPAA/RIAA will be to then try and shut down the internet.
Personnally I would say the best thing to do is DO NOT buy anything that comes through the MPAA/RIAA. Boycott. If it hurts the artists, so be it! Get the message out to the artists that the time has come for the MPAA/RIAA to close their doors. I believe that the time has come for direct support of the artists. I do this already with one artist (Bjorn Lynne AKA Dr. Awsome for you Amiga freaks out there.) He produces and distributes is music on his own without the need for the recording industy. I am willing to pay $20 for a cd from him because 1) he is incurring all the costs of production, copying and distribution of his CD's 2) he gets EVERY dime! Nothing goes to the RIAA! He even gives out free samples of his music in MP3 format. As well as having contests and gives out copies of his CD's to winners. How many artists aligned with the RIAA give out their CD's on a weekly basis to their fans? I would encourage everyone to seek out artists like this and support them (if you like their music). Don't mp3 up their music and give it out. Show artists that they can make a decent living doing it on their own without the RIAA or the MPAA.
You have to treat it properly. I.E. Not installing shit software.
What do you consider "shit software" anything NON-Microsoft? If M$ would get their Sh*t together and open up their damn API's and quit hiding crap from developers third party software just might be a little better and stable. And you know damn good and well M$ is hiding stuff ON PURPOSE to make other peoples code crash and burn. That way they can point the finger to other peoples programs and the reason why peoples Windows systems crash. I do, yes - gasp! Windows - development at work and I see how silly and unstable programming for windows really is. I have done programming on IBM AS/400's and have no problems with ANY program I write on it. I have written programs under linux and have had better results there too than with windows. The difference is windows is bloated, unstable, has hidden API functions/features - thanx to M$. Heck even IBM broke down and released the MI (Machine Inerface) manual so regular everyday programmers could code at the MI level. This use to be kept in the domain of the IBM developers only. MI was verboten for anyone outside of IBM at one time - not aynmore.
Personally I would like to see an underground group reverse-engineer/Disassemble windows and quietly release the source on the Internet - even in ASM code would be fine. Yes I know this is only a pipe dream, but hey I think it would wake up M$ and maybe they would do something about their GD monopolistic bullsh*t!
Really Mr. Gates and all at M$ how much is enough. I know you want world domination but guess what - YOU CAN'T HAVE IT! I mean all it would take is to release 10,000 new viruses simultanously on a single day at a specific time. All manner of viruses, MS scripting, macro, worm, trojan, ones with mutation engines and M$ would fall flat on their faces. Corporations, individuals would scream to high heaven. Think about it, this could really happen. By no means am I advocating this type of thing, but I seee that this could happen. And guess what only M$ would proably really be hit the hardest and the worst.
Used to run on AS400's. But running on Windows 2000/SAP now.
AC you know dick! where are you getting your information? I get mine right from within MS!
An ex-Air Force friend of mine went and interviewed with MS. He had a fraternaty brother of his that works as a supervisor at MS. My friend told them about me and MS wanted to hire me as an SE to work on their AS/400's. I told them no way! As I wouldn't compromise my principals and work for a company I despise.
So now Mr. AC where do you get your information? - I thought so MS FUD!
The article failed to mention that MS's back office systems are run on IBM AS/400's. This is a well known fact in the IBM circles. MS runs about 20+ AS/400's. Having been in the IT world for too long I figured I should let this be known. I am surprised this "ex" employee failed to mention this! I am somewhat suspicioius that only the Unices were mentioned and not the AS/400's. Was there some alterior motives in this "ex" employee by only mentioning Unices? I don't know... The fact about MS using AS/400's has been circulated lots of times in the AS400 usenet newsgroup.
I find it funny how many non-MS systems MS actually runs!
I don't know about the rest of you but I have about had it with the MPAA, RIAA and the like thinking they own the fscking world! And think that just because the have the money and power laywers they can push eveyone around by THIER rules.
I think it is HIGH time a large group of individuals try to find some backing (laywers,money) and bring a damn big lawsuit aginst the MPAA and RIAA for say price fixing or something that could hit them hard in the media (except that the media is as liberal as these two groups).
I am sure some how it can be proven that there is say price fixing going on. especially with the reduced cost of manufacutring CD's. I know everyone hates government involvement but in this case it might help. Anti-Trust laws and the like might be a way to put the fear of god into these fscking groups.
Maybe organize some public CD buring, or DVD/VHS burnings to show outrage at the actions of these organizations. I know this would be an expensive effort but it would DEFFINATELY bring some major attention to things.
I am just sick of having the feeling that I/we can't do a damn thing to these corporate giants. Writing and calling congressmen/women doesn't do a damn bit of good. Who do you think dumps tons of cash into lobyists and into their campaign funds?
If anyone here really thinks that writing and calling their congresspeople does any good is in a dreamworld - wake up and smell the coffee!
Actions speak louder than words - organize public protests outside of movie theaters, outside of record stores etc.. We really need some BIG media attention to get OUR view out. We need to get John Q' Public to think with those pea brains of theirs - not just regurgitate the garbage that is fed to them by these big corporate giants.
Stop the Madness!!! --> take our fight to the streets!
So by this dork judges ruling wouldn't that make Google a criminal tool? Since it returns links to DeCSS? In fact ANY search engine would be considered a criminal tool. Since they all would return links to DeCSS. Gee while were at it lets make the whole damn internet illigal.
It's time to get the fsck'ing corporate types off the internet. They are destroying it and taking it over for their own. They are trying to control it. I think the death of BBS's was premature. At least the corporate types couldn't really control them. I think masses of people need to set up BBS internet sties were you need an account to get on to it. and part of the "application process" should be affirming that you are NOT part of ANY corporate entity - No corporatations would be allowed into them - PERIOD!. Then if they lie to get an account and try to take any action then they would be breaking the law. Not like the corporate types don't break the law everyday - and get away with it! If your rich and/or powerful your basically immune from the law.
Sorry, but Republican/conservative = Corporate lover - FACT. Democrat/liberal = Government Lover = FACT.
Neither of these parties give a damn about the average joe - you and me! If they did they would pass such hooey as DMCA and UCita etc..
The US is NO LONGER "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Face it folks it's now "government of the government, by the corporations and for the corporations."
Since it seems that the DMCA passed with a overwhelming majority in the house and senate,
They best way to get the message to this stinkin' government is VOTE THEM ALL OUT. replace every one of them and if the next batch does the same thing vote them out. If that doesn't work start grass roots movements to start voting local everyday folks into offices. start with local stuff then move those people to higher state positions. Then move to the national positions. The everyday person just has to give a damn! But right now to many of the everyday people are lemmings and sheep. They let the media tell them how they should think, feel and act.
Folks, it's time to take our government back! Don't just sit in front of your monitor and talk here at/. and complain and be armchair problem solvers. Get out in your local neighborhoods, beat the pavement ring doorbells and inform & talk to people. Organize like thinkers and organize voters. Corporations can buy politicians but let them try to buy a very large organized movement that votes out those politicians they bought!
Folks, Don't listen to your union reps, don't let them tell you how to vote! Think for yourself, do research ask questions. This more than anything SCARES politicians and scares those in authority. Blately ask your state representatives and senators "did you vote for DCMA?" "Did you or will you vote for Ucita?". Ask them the tought hard questions. Call them, write to them. Folks with the Big election comming up in November we stil have time to make a stink. Email.write, call your friends and relatives and get them to organize.
Read the US constitution, your bill or rights etc.. Know what your rights are! DCMA and Ucita take them away! and if these fly easily others will follow. yes Even you 2nd amendment folks, you don't think they will stop at gun control do you? they want total gun confiscation just like in Australia. Look at recent polls showing major groups of teens want more gun control. They are getting to our kids folks! Does this scare you yet?
Take your government back! Before it's to late. Sorry, but Republican/conservative = Corporate lover - FACT. Democrat/liberal = Government Lover = FACT.
Neither of these parties give a damn about the average joe - you and me! If they did they would pass such hooey as DMCA and UCita etc..
The US is NO LONGER "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Face it folks it's now "government of the government, by the corporations and for the corporations."
Since it seems that the DMCA passed with a overwhelming majority in the house and senate,
They best way to get the message to this stinkin' government is VOTE THEM ALL OUT. replace every one of them and if the next batch does the same thing vote them out. If that doesn't work start grass roots movements to start voting local everyday folks into offices. start with local stuff then move those people to higher state positions. Then move to the national positions. The everyday person just has to give a damn! But right now to many of the everyday people are lemmings and sheep. They let the media tell them how they should think, feel and act.
Folks, it's time to take our government back! Don't just sit in front of your monitor and talk here at/. and complain and be armchair problem solvers. Get out in your local neighborhoods, beat the pavement ring doorbells and inform & talk to people. Organize like thinkers and organize voters. Corporations can buy politicians but let them try to buy a very large organized movement that votes out those politicians they bought!
Folks, Don't listen to your union reps, don't let them tell you how to vote! Think for yourself, do research ask questions. This more than anything SCARES politicians and scares those in authority. Blately ask your state representatives and senators "did you vote for DCMA?" "Did you or will you vote for Ucita?". Ask them the tought hard questions. Call them, write to them. Folks with the Big election comming up in November we stil have time to make a stink. Email.write, call your friends and relatives and get them to organize.
Read the US constitution, your bill or rights etc.. Know what your rights are! DCMA and Ucita take them away! and if these fly easily others will follow. yes Even you 2nd amendment folks, you don't think they will stop at gun control do you? they want total gun confiscation just like in Australia. Look at recent polls showing major groups of teens want more gun control. They are getting to our kids folks! Does this scare you yet?
And This PocketLinux project has been around since 1998! I went so far as to send an email to Transvirtual letting them know that there was a project using PocketLinux long before they were. I also sent an Email to Pawel Wiecek (aka Coven) concerning this. I do host a mirror of this Linux Distro. So I Felt compelled to send some emails on this.
And more than likely this company (Transvirtual) will claim they had it first. And go after the previously mentioned projects that were already using the name and sue them to change the name.
This would be a typical corporate move. - Maybe Ralph Naders Ideas aren't so crazy????
Everything we read these days seems to be opinions. Everyone has one, face it folks. Good or bad. But what makes an opinion good or bad? You Mr./Mrs. Slashdot reader will think your opinon is good and others whose opionions you don't agree with will be considered bad. Likewise, When I am reading here or anywhere else I will feel that opinions I agree with are good and all else are bad. Remember "What do opinions and a$$holes have in common? Everyone has one and they both stink". Many comments posted to slashdot are opinions. CmdrTaco just like everyone else has the right to express his opinion. So give it a rest folks.
And like the bulk of news stories reported by the mainstream press aren't unbiased. Please give me strength! Those stories are ALL slanted to one extreme or the next. The mainstream press is NOT unbiased.
While we are on everyones opinion of the political system here in the U.SA. I will throw mine in!
Both the Democrats and Republicans are crooked to the core! Both ONLY care about themselves and the big companies that flood them with cash! They don't give a raging rats ass about you or me - the normal joe. The Democrats want to take all your rights and freedoms and give the power to the government and the republicans want to take your money and freedom and give it to big corporations. Then we have the green party... The animal rights Freaks! - Oh no animals should be killed - everyone should be vegatarians.
Then there is Flush Limbaugh and the Limbots and dittoheads.
IMHO the whole American political system is shot to hell. It is run by either nuts, the mafia, or big corporations. Anyone who beleives it is still - "Government of the people, for the people and by the people" is a dreamer. Folks wake up! The NWO (New World Order) is already being put into place and not you nor I can do a darn thing about it! We are all soon to be saves to "The Man".
If you know anyone that is with "The Dragons", "The Illuminati" or one of those such High level groups you better make real good friends with them, that's all I have to say.
No I am not a conspiracy nut, just a realist!
Ahh I love having free speech while it lasts.
Linux going the way of M$
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It seems that With SuSE taking the same path as Red Hat in their distro structure and PRICE$$$ structure they will be charging the same if not more than M$ does for thier so-called OS. At this rate we as Linux zelots will have one less thing to use as a strong point to buy and use Linux. I sold my boss on using Linux because of it's price factor.
1) Free - if we download it.
2) SuSE 6.4 was $29.00 at Chump USA for all 6 CD's and the manual.
My boss wanted to use Win2K. But if SuSE goes this route I don't think I will be able to keep the price argument valid. Especially since my boss is a M$ zelot anyway.
Hey SuSE and Red Hat - your making it HARD for us trying to get Linux in the Business world with your drastic price jumps! You should not have gone Public and sold your souls to bean counting stockholders!
The AS/400 isn't that hard to learn. heck I have tought myself SO much of it it isn't funny. It's like ANY OS you have to 1) RTFM(s) 2) Play with it.
There are a lot of really cool things about it, but I have never seen such a vertical learning curve in my life. You have to understand the whole gestalt behind the system before you can write 'hello, world'.
I am sorry, but the AS/400 is the EASIEST OS I have ever learned. Linux has more of a "vertical learning curve" than the AS/400. The AS/400 has VERY nice Context sensitve help on EVERY screen. If you know a couple programming languages, picking up RPG III, RPG IV and CL aren't to difficult. It is actually harder to learn C/C++ under Linux than it is to learn RPG or CL on the AS/400. I have been programming and doing System administration on AS/400's for a few years now, and have released many "helpful" items for people.
Open source has even spilled over into AS/400 projects. Check out WyattERp it is an Open Source ERP project for the AS/400. There was a nice article about it in the July 2000 issue of Midrange computting. And Linux WILL be comming to the AS/400, IBM has made several mentions to this. Which is a turnaround from their previous position with said "Absolutly NO!" Those of us that have been pushing for Linux on the AS/400 were told this repeatedly by IBM. Seems they have had a change of heart!:^).
like the clear disdain for MarchFirst's Flash on their home page but no mention of it on Vitria's main page. I think he wasn't too off base. Whittman-hart (Now MarchFirst) had put this kind of junk on their web page before their merger with USWeb/CKS. They rolled out the new web site and such and a big todo for employees of the company. I and many others were not impressed with the new web page. They just rolled the thing over with the merger. and the name of the new company. God how original! flat out stupid! The name of the new company is the date that the new company was incorporated. Give me strength! talk about a LAME name. Glad I don't work for them anymore! Gabriel/TSS!
Buyer for SCO - Something to Think about
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Ok first the quick history. Micro$oft sells Xenix to SCO. As part of the contract agreement of sales Micro$oft COULD NOT produce or distribute ANY form of a Unix operating system as long as SCO was in business. (Fact). This is why when NT came out it was touted as "better than Unix". Because M$ couldn't release a Unix flavor. This is why They haven't released their own flavor of M$ LInux. Legally until SCO goes under they CAN'T. Now here is the thought. What if M$ bought up SCO? Basically buying back Xenix plus some. At that point they contract with SCo is null and void. They (M$) would be free to release a Unix flavor. Now just think about the ramifications of this. We all know that the bulk of the people that do as BG and the Redmond campus say is because they are Lemmings and/or sheep. Thus to severly damage the growing momentum of Linux they release a M$ Linux that is a total piece of cr*p. Then they could ocme out and in the press say "see how bad Linux is" "we tried to put out a version, but Linux is just not viable." Or somthing to this effect. How many know that M$ just dumped some money into VMWare and signed in with an OEM agreement with them. This could also throw a wrench into Linux. M$ say starts distributing VMWare with Windows and touting if you want to run Linux you can do it through Windows now. I think you all can think of the other endless possibilities M$ could do.
Does anybody have any statistics on how many people have gone to jail as a result of copyright offenses? I'd hazard a guess that it is not many. I imagine the law has basically only gone after those making a hefty profit from what they did. Why should how they are breaking copyright law make a difference?
From knowing a little about the Software Piracy issue, I can say that %99.99999 of the time they never prosocute the "home use" pirate. BUT if you start MASS distributing software they raise an eye to you. And if you start selling the software you have pirated THEN they will come after you.
In the case of MP3's I really don't see any law enforcement agency coming after the "home use" pirate. napstar is nothing more than an "open" form of the old Pirate BBS's. Not very many really got taken down. They slowly faded away. The same will happen with Napstar. It to will fade away into something else. Some new technology will replace Napstar. If the RIAA would get a clue they would see that history repeats itself. But with the mass amount of big corporations trying to take the Internet for themselves anyway they can, what is happening to Napstar doesn't surprise me. If the RIAA can get rid of the Napstar and MP3.com sites. They(RIAA) could open up something similar of their own and have NO compition. It's all about market share. Right now the RIAA has no, zero, zilch, nada, none market share of the MP3 market. I think they realize that MP3's are the next medium for music distribution, and they want ALL the market share, to hold onto their monopoly of the music distribution business. This is why fighting this wave of "stop MP3's!" is so important. Just my comments on this whole thing.
Actually Linux doesn't exactly run on the AS/400, but it will run on the IPCS HINT HINT.
I have talked with many people about Linux on the AS/400 and the only reason you would want Linux on the AS/400 is to put it on the IPCS or integrated netfinity card. Linux won't, I repeat won't be able to replace the capabilites of OS/400 yet .
In the buiness world they want a server that is stable, secure, easy to administer etc...
Comparisons:
Linux: Stable mostly secure - depends on sysadmin not so easy to administer or use cost - cheap!
OS/400 - AS/400: very stable very secure: - again a bad sysadmin can somewhat hurt this. but set at Security level 50 (changing ONE system value) and take the simple steps in the "tips and tricks for securing the AS/400" and you have a C2 rated machine. Easy to use and administer cost - not so cheap
having used both and a host of other OS's I still like the AS/400 for it's overall capabilites.
If I had my choice I would use the AS/400 as the a back office server and use Linux for firewall,proxy server etc.. maybe for a mail/news server. But I don't think that Linux is ready as a replacement for AS/400's OS/400. Especially in the business world.
Just my.03 worth -- inflation you know!
Gabriel/TSS! AS/400 Guru - Aspiring Linux Guru http://www.pcisys.net/~rknech/as400.htm
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I would like to ask ALL the candidates:
Is it not true that there really is NO budget surplus? Is it not true that the dollar figures everyone is tossing around is actually the surplus in the social security fund? (true fact - I researched the "books".).
If "yes" is your answer, how do you plan on funding your new projects, tax cuts etc.. ?
If you rob social security to fund your "pet" projects, how will you fund social security, more taxes?
The hell with the RIAA!
Make every effort to contact the artists you prefer, tell them you would prefer to be able to aquire their music directly from them. The more artists see that the masses would rather get the music from them and more than likely pay less then what they pay for CD's now.
I support at least one musician in this manner. He gives out some of his stuff as MP3's for free download at MP3.com and I buy his CD's direct from him! NO RIAA inbetween! He gets ALL the money.
Check out Bjorn Lynne Here and his other pseudonim Divinorum. Some may know him as Dr. Awsome!
Also Show the RIAA that downloading MP3's is a good "Try before you buy" program. If you download and like the music, please buy the artists CD. This way part of the RIAA's reasoning that this is all about theft starts to dry up.
Folks,
haven't we learned from the current gas problem here in the U.S. that too much reliance on products and services from outside sources hurts us.
Think about this the more foreign workers we bring into this country the more reliant we get on them. Then, at a future date in time when a whole slew of those visa's expire there will have to be a mass exodus of foreign workers. (But, of course the corporations will bitch and whine and get them extended.) Also, the more foreign workers brought in the less Americans will be needed by big corporations to do the work.
This country needs to start being less reliant on other countries for goods and services and start doing things ourselves. I know this is a strange idea, but we did do this at one point in time in our history. Look at this country WWII and prior. I know someone will mention the Chinese, Irish etc.. that worked on the railroads, and the black slaves that were brought into this country to do the slave labor on the plantations. But, think about this, this is EXACTLY the same thing that is happening with H1-B's! Money grubbing entreprneurs(corporations) using cheap labor. If these companies would be fair with the labor in the U.S. (pay fair wages, fair benifits etc..) and stop relying on cheap foreign labor; more Americans would do an honest days work for an honest days pay. (We also need to get rid of the organized crime run unions! - Yes they are run by organized crime - if you believe the BS your union tells you your a fool. Do the research!)
Don't vote Bush, and don't vote Gore!
Vote Harry Brown and run your OWN life!
This thing is so fscking old! In fact I used this reference for a college paper LAST YEAR!
/. will post anything even if it's older than Jesus Christ himself!
I guess
Lets get a grip folks!
Maybe the book wasn't finished when it went to press?
If the book wasn't finished that just clearly shows two things:
1) A very crappy publisher - putting a book to print BEFORE it was finshed. Imagine buying a Dean R. Koontz book that wasn't finished. I know I'd be pissed!
2) Very ignorant and piss poor author(s). Authors that let a book go to print before it is finished is just plain silly. They should be ashamed! That just tells me not to buy ANY book by the author, since they have shown to be very sloppy in the past - putting an unfinished book to print.
Solution:
Don't EVER but a book by authors that do this sort of thing and never buy a book from that publisher again. Both have shown they are incapable of having any inteligence and common sense. Not to mention that they are crooks!
I'm getting(100-200k)
Your only getting 100 -200K? Geez your getting ripped. I'm getting 560K + on my 256K DSl line through USWorst. But with all the fiasco going on inside USWest/Quest I have already seen the DSL service start to go to hell. And it will only get worse. I have a few people that work for USWEst/Quest in the class I am taking and there is NO GOOD NEWS comming from the inside! THings are only getting worse!
[Disclaimer]
I am not a laywer, just someone who has done a lot of reading of the constituion and the amaendments and the laws of my state! Your state laws my vary.
[End of Disclaimer]
If they give you any flack and say they will sue you just plainly and nicely tell them to F*** off!
Then if you get served with papers immidietly contact the judge and tell them you want the case moved directly to a FEDERAL court, as your First amedment rights are being surpressed and turn the whole thing into a constitutional issue. Then the other side will be cought off gaurd and have to decide if they want to take the chance losing and setting a precendece. Use whatever constitutional issue that you can muster up. Use more than one if you can, it makes it much nastier for the other side to justify going to court!
I had this happen ONCE and only once. The sucker drop the case quicker than s*it! (after the judge nicely suggested to the plaintif to do this) Lower level court Judges don't like having to deal with "forced" constitutional issues.
The best thing anyone can do is Know Your Rights! Read the constitution and ALL the emendments over and over until you know them by heart! Then get familiar with as many of the laws of the state you live in. If someone from another state try's to sue you tell them their states laws have no jurisdiction in your state. Unless again they want to go to federal court and turn it into a constitutional issue!
If they contact your ISP and threaten them if they don't take down your website. Tell your ISP you will sue them if they do - based on the same reasons you give the stupid A$$ that wants to sue you. It's simple, Fight Back! Don't take sh*t from anyone!
Back in the late 80's we did this with an Amiga 2000. We bought a multi-eprom board and mounted it in the A2000. We burned the whole amiga OS into EPROMM. The machine booted the OS Instantly!. There were 8 EPROM slots in the board so we had the Whole OS and some small, heavily used programs burned into the EPROMMS. It was awsome!
Of course the Amiga was a hardware hackers dream machine. It was nice having multi-rom boards so you could boot up with Amiga OS 1.1,1.2,1.3,2.0,2.1 at any time. A TRUE multi-boot machine.
I don't see why you couldn't do this same type of thing with Linux. There are a few different "Embedded Linux" distros out there. Just burn them to EPROMM and "Hack" the hardware! Boot from an EPROMM board vs. hard drive. And have the EPROMMed OS mount your hard drive(s) to the OS. Easy? maybe not for the faint of heart. But a truely driven individual could do it.
If someone gets it to work let us all now. Share the wealth per say.
Folks, You all should know by know by now that NO online poll is acurate at all! They are a waste of time. No matter what poll that is put out there on these "corporate" run websites their results will be about as acurate as a sniper rifle with a 90 degree bend in the barrell. I would say don't even waste your time with them. The ignorant PHB's that would actually base business decisions on these things deserve the nasty fallout they would incur. Let the "legend in their own mind" windows crowd believe what ever the hell they want. We all know the truth, and the truth is a virus! It spreads.... The only polls worth any time are the /. polls -- their entertaining!
.03 worth (Inflation you know)
Just my
If your hard drive crashed and you bought another, you'd have to call them again for another install password.
:^).
There is one falacy to this. There is a dos program that will allow you to change the Volume ID on your HD (Works great for stupid companies that have their serial # based on your HD Vol ID! can you say Aldon!). So if this situation came up, just have a pre-created boot disk with this dos program on it and change the Volume ID on your HD to the One you previously had (make sure you make note of it when you install the first time!) and Whola! you don't have to call M$ ever again! The program is called VolumeID You can get it by clicking on the "VolumeID" Link Provided!
There is ALWAYS a way around companies blatenly being stupid!
Remember: "There is no such thing as a stupid question, Just a stupid person!"
There is one thing I am fairly sure of though: DeCSS is the tip of the iceberg. Those hackers who have the knowledge, skill and motivation will ceate software that will ignore watermarks and cut through "copy protection devices". Maybe this time
it will be anonymously as well as open source. What the industry execs fear will come to pass despite anything they can do.
Well the "hackers" have already written software that defeats the "mediavision" copy protection.
What these stupid companies do not understand is that no matter how smart you think you are, there is ALWAYS someone that is smarter. Copy protections have always been cracked. Heck companies thought that dongle protection was great. Yeah right! anyone with just a hinge of electronics knowledge can duplicate those stupid dongles!
What the MPAA AND the RIAA have to grasp is that if they don't get their head out of their a$$es they will get left way behind, lawsuits or no lawsuits. What they will find will happen is people will get so sick and tired of their cr*p and just start mass posting any and every piece of music they can find and every and any movie they can get their hands on and mass post them on the internet. The only option for the MPAA/RIAA will be to then try and shut down the internet.
Personnally I would say the best thing to do is DO NOT buy anything that comes through the MPAA/RIAA. Boycott. If it hurts the artists, so be it! Get the message out to the artists that the time has come for the MPAA/RIAA to close their doors. I believe that the time has come for direct support of the artists. I do this already with one artist (Bjorn Lynne AKA Dr. Awsome for you Amiga freaks out there.) He produces and distributes is music on his own without the need for the recording industy. I am willing to pay $20 for a cd from him because 1) he is incurring all the costs of production, copying and distribution of his CD's 2) he gets EVERY dime! Nothing goes to the RIAA! He even gives out free samples of his music in MP3 format. As well as having contests and gives out copies of his CD's to winners. How many artists aligned with the RIAA give out their CD's on a weekly basis to their fans? I would encourage everyone to seek out artists like this and support them (if you like their music). Don't mp3 up their music and give it out. Show artists that they can make a decent living doing it on their own without the RIAA or the MPAA.
You have to treat it properly. I.E. Not installing shit software.
What do you consider "shit software" anything NON-Microsoft?
If M$ would get their Sh*t together and open up their damn API's and quit hiding crap from developers third party software just might be a little better and stable. And you know damn good and well M$ is hiding stuff ON PURPOSE to make other peoples code crash and burn. That way they can point the finger to other peoples programs and the reason why peoples Windows systems crash. I do, yes - gasp! Windows - development at work and I see how silly and unstable programming for windows really is. I have done programming on IBM AS/400's and have no problems with ANY program I write on it. I have written programs under linux and have had better results there too than with windows. The difference is windows is bloated, unstable, has hidden API functions/features - thanx to M$. Heck even IBM broke down and released the MI (Machine Inerface) manual so regular everyday programmers could code at the MI level. This use to be kept in the domain of the IBM developers only. MI was verboten for anyone outside of IBM at one time - not aynmore.
Personally I would like to see an underground group reverse-engineer/Disassemble windows and quietly release the source on the Internet - even in ASM code would be fine. Yes I know this is only a pipe dream, but hey I think it would wake up M$ and maybe they would do something about their GD monopolistic bullsh*t!
Really Mr. Gates and all at M$ how much is enough. I know you want world domination but guess what - YOU CAN'T HAVE IT! I mean all it would take is to release 10,000 new viruses simultanously on a single day at a specific time. All manner of viruses, MS scripting, macro, worm, trojan, ones with mutation engines and M$ would fall flat on their faces. Corporations, individuals would scream to high heaven. Think about it, this could really happen. By no means am I advocating this type of thing, but I seee that this could happen. And guess what only M$ would proably really be hit the hardest and the worst.
Used to run on AS400's. But running on Windows 2000/SAP now.
AC you know dick! where are you getting your information?
I get mine right from within MS!
An ex-Air Force friend of mine went and interviewed with MS. He had a fraternaty brother of his that works as a supervisor at MS. My friend told them about me and MS wanted to hire me as an SE to work on their AS/400's. I told them no way! As I wouldn't compromise my principals and work for a company I despise.
So now Mr. AC where do you get your information? - I thought so MS FUD!
Anyone, Anyone, Beuller.....
The article failed to mention that MS's back office systems are run on IBM AS/400's. This is a well known fact in the IBM circles. MS runs about 20+ AS/400's. Having been in the IT world for too long I figured I should let this be known. I am surprised this "ex" employee failed to mention this! I am somewhat suspicioius that only the Unices were mentioned and not the AS/400's. Was there some alterior motives in this "ex" employee by only mentioning Unices? I don't know... The fact about MS using AS/400's has been circulated lots of times in the AS400 usenet newsgroup.
I find it funny how many non-MS systems MS actually runs!
I don't know about the rest of you but I have about had it with the MPAA, RIAA and the like thinking they own the fscking world! And think that just because the have the money and power laywers they can push eveyone around by THIER rules.
I think it is HIGH time a large group of individuals try to find some backing (laywers,money) and bring a damn big lawsuit aginst the MPAA and RIAA for say price fixing or something that could hit them hard in the media (except that the media is as liberal as these two groups).
I am sure some how it can be proven that there is say price fixing going on. especially with the reduced cost of manufacutring CD's. I know everyone hates government involvement but in this case it might help. Anti-Trust laws and the like might be a way to put the fear of god into these fscking groups.
Maybe organize some public CD buring, or DVD/VHS burnings to show outrage at the actions of these organizations. I know this would be an expensive effort but it would DEFFINATELY bring some major attention to things.
I am just sick of having the feeling that I/we can't do a damn thing to these corporate giants. Writing and calling congressmen/women doesn't do a damn bit of good. Who do you think dumps tons of cash into lobyists and into their campaign funds?
If anyone here really thinks that writing and calling their congresspeople does any good is in a dreamworld - wake up and smell the coffee!
Actions speak louder than words - organize public protests outside of movie theaters, outside of record stores etc.. We really need some BIG media attention to get OUR view out. We need to get John Q' Public to think with those pea brains of theirs - not just regurgitate the garbage that is fed to them by these big corporate giants.
Stop the Madness!!! --> take our fight to the streets!
So by this dork judges ruling wouldn't that make Google a criminal tool? Since it returns links to DeCSS? In fact ANY search engine would be considered a criminal tool. Since they all would return links to DeCSS. Gee while were at it lets make the whole damn internet illigal.
It's time to get the fsck'ing corporate types off the internet. They are destroying it and taking it over for their own. They are trying to control it. I think the death of BBS's was premature. At least the corporate types couldn't really control them. I think masses of people need to set up BBS internet sties were you need an account to get on to it. and part of the "application process" should be affirming that you are NOT part of ANY corporate entity - No corporatations would be allowed into them - PERIOD!. Then if they lie to get an account and try to take any action then they would be breaking the law. Not like the corporate types don't break the law everyday - and get away with it! If your rich and/or powerful your basically immune from the law.
Remember the golden rule!
"Those who have the gold, make the rules!"
Sorry, but Republican/conservative = Corporate lover - FACT. Democrat/liberal = Government Lover = FACT.
/. and complain and be armchair problem solvers. Get out in your local neighborhoods, beat the pavement ring doorbells and inform & talk to people. Organize like thinkers and organize voters.
/. and complain and be armchair problem solvers. Get out in your local neighborhoods, beat the pavement ring doorbells and inform & talk to people. Organize like thinkers and organize voters.
Neither of these parties give a damn about the average joe - you and me! If they did they would pass such hooey as DMCA and UCita etc..
The US is NO LONGER "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Face it folks it's now "government of the government, by the corporations and for the corporations."
Since it seems that the DMCA passed with a overwhelming majority in the house and senate,
They best way to get the message to this stinkin' government is VOTE THEM ALL OUT. replace every one of them and if the next batch does the same thing vote them out. If that doesn't work start grass roots movements to start voting local everyday folks into offices. start with local stuff then move those people to higher state positions. Then move to the national positions. The everyday person just has to give a damn! But right now to many of the everyday people are lemmings and sheep. They let the media tell them how they should think, feel and act.
Folks, it's time to take our government back!
Don't just sit in front of your monitor and talk here at
Corporations can buy politicians but let them try to buy a very large organized movement that votes out those politicians they bought!
Folks, Don't listen to your union reps, don't let them tell you how to vote! Think for yourself, do research ask questions. This more than anything SCARES politicians and scares those in authority. Blately ask your state representatives and senators "did you vote for DCMA?" "Did you or will you vote for Ucita?". Ask them the tought hard questions. Call them, write to them. Folks with the Big election comming up in November we stil have time to make a stink. Email.write, call your friends and relatives and get them to organize.
Read the US constitution, your bill or rights etc.. Know what your rights are! DCMA and Ucita take them away! and if these fly easily others will follow. yes Even you 2nd amendment folks, you don't think they will stop at gun control do you? they want total gun confiscation just like in Australia. Look at recent polls showing major groups of teens want more gun control. They are getting to our kids folks! Does this scare you yet?
Take your government back! Before it's to late.
Sorry, but Republican/conservative = Corporate lover - FACT. Democrat/liberal = Government Lover = FACT.
Neither of these parties give a damn about the average joe - you and me! If they did they would pass such hooey as DMCA and UCita etc..
The US is NO LONGER "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Face it folks it's now "government of the government, by the corporations and for the corporations."
Since it seems that the DMCA passed with a overwhelming majority in the house and senate,
They best way to get the message to this stinkin' government is VOTE THEM ALL OUT. replace every one of them and if the next batch does the same thing vote them out. If that doesn't work start grass roots movements to start voting local everyday folks into offices. start with local stuff then move those people to higher state positions. Then move to the national positions. The everyday person just has to give a damn! But right now to many of the everyday people are lemmings and sheep. They let the media tell them how they should think, feel and act.
Folks, it's time to take our government back!
Don't just sit in front of your monitor and talk here at
Corporations can buy politicians but let them try to buy a very large organized movement that votes out those politicians they bought!
Folks, Don't listen to your union reps, don't let them tell you how to vote! Think for yourself, do research ask questions. This more than anything SCARES politicians and scares those in authority. Blately ask your state representatives and senators "did you vote for DCMA?" "Did you or will you vote for Ucita?". Ask them the tought hard questions. Call them, write to them. Folks with the Big election comming up in November we stil have time to make a stink. Email.write, call your friends and relatives and get them to organize.
Read the US constitution, your bill or rights etc.. Know what your rights are! DCMA and Ucita take them away! and if these fly easily others will follow. yes Even you 2nd amendment folks, you don't think they will stop at gun control do you? they want total gun confiscation just like in Australia. Look at recent polls showing major groups of teens want more gun control. They are getting to our kids folks! Does this scare you yet?
Take your government back! Before it's to late.
And This PocketLinux project has been around since 1998! I went so far as to send an email to Transvirtual letting them know that there was a project using PocketLinux long before they were. I also sent an Email to Pawel Wiecek (aka Coven) concerning this. I do host a mirror of this Linux Distro. So I Felt compelled to send some emails on this.
And more than likely this company (Transvirtual) will claim they had it first. And go after the previously mentioned projects that were already using the name and sue them to change the name.
This would be a typical corporate move. - Maybe Ralph Naders Ideas aren't so crazy????
Anarchy RULES!
No this is not a TROLL post!
Everything we read these days seems to be opinions. Everyone has one, face it folks. Good or bad. But what makes an opinion good or bad? You Mr./Mrs. Slashdot reader will think your opinon is good and others whose opionions you don't agree with will be considered bad. Likewise, When I am reading here or anywhere else I will feel that opinions I agree with are good and all else are bad. Remember "What do opinions and a$$holes have in common? Everyone has one and they both stink". Many comments posted to slashdot are opinions. CmdrTaco just like everyone else has the right to express his opinion. So give it a rest folks.
And like the bulk of news stories reported by the mainstream press aren't unbiased. Please give me strength! Those stories are ALL slanted to one extreme or the next. The mainstream press is NOT unbiased.
While we are on everyones opinion of the political system here in the U.SA. I will throw mine in!
Both the Democrats and Republicans are crooked to the core! Both ONLY care about themselves and the big companies that flood them with cash! They don't give a raging rats ass about you or me - the normal joe. The Democrats want to take all your rights and freedoms and give the power to the government and the republicans want to take your money and freedom and give it to big corporations. Then we have the green party... The animal rights Freaks! - Oh no animals should be killed - everyone should be vegatarians.
Then there is Flush Limbaugh and the Limbots and dittoheads.
IMHO the whole American political system is shot to hell. It is run by either nuts, the mafia, or big corporations. Anyone who beleives it is still - "Government of the people, for the people and by the people" is a dreamer. Folks wake up! The NWO (New World Order) is already being put into place and not you nor I can do a darn thing about it! We are all soon to be saves to "The Man".
If you know anyone that is with "The Dragons", "The Illuminati" or one of those such High level groups you better make real good friends with them, that's all I have to say.
No I am not a conspiracy nut, just a realist!
Ahh I love having free speech while it lasts.
It seems that With SuSE taking the same path as Red Hat in their distro structure and PRICE$$$ structure they will be charging the same if not more than M$ does for thier so-called OS. At this rate we as Linux zelots will have one less thing to use as a strong point to buy and use Linux. I sold my boss on using Linux because of it's price factor.
1) Free - if we download it.
2) SuSE 6.4 was $29.00 at Chump USA for all 6 CD's and the manual.
My boss wanted to use Win2K. But if SuSE goes this route I don't think I will be able to keep the price argument valid. Especially since my boss is a M$ zelot anyway.
Hey SuSE and Red Hat - your making it HARD for us trying to get Linux in the Business world with your drastic price jumps! You should not have gone Public and sold your souls to bean counting stockholders!
wish the AS/400 wasn't so hard to learn.
:^).
The AS/400 isn't that hard to learn. heck I have tought myself SO much of it it isn't funny. It's like ANY OS you have to 1) RTFM(s) 2) Play with it.
There are a lot of really cool things about it, but I have never seen such a vertical learning curve in my life. You have to understand the whole gestalt behind the system before you can write 'hello, world'.
I am sorry, but the AS/400 is the EASIEST OS I have ever learned. Linux has more of a "vertical learning curve" than the AS/400. The AS/400 has VERY nice Context sensitve help on EVERY screen. If you know a couple programming languages, picking up RPG III, RPG IV and CL aren't to difficult. It is actually harder to learn C/C++ under Linux than it is to learn RPG or CL on the AS/400. I have been programming and doing System administration on AS/400's for a few years now, and have released many "helpful" items for people.
Open source has even spilled over into AS/400 projects. Check out WyattERp it is an Open Source ERP project for the AS/400. There was a nice article about it in the July 2000 issue of Midrange computting. And Linux WILL be comming to the AS/400, IBM has made several mentions to this. Which is a turnaround from their previous position with said "Absolutly NO!" Those of us that have been pushing for Linux on the AS/400 were told this repeatedly by IBM. Seems they have had a change of heart!
like the clear disdain for MarchFirst's Flash on their home page but no mention of it on Vitria's main page.
I think he wasn't too off base. Whittman-hart (Now MarchFirst) had put this kind of junk on their web page before their merger with USWeb/CKS. They rolled out the new web site and such and a big todo for employees of the company. I and many others were not impressed with the new web page. They just rolled the thing over with the merger. and the name of the new company. God how original! flat out stupid! The name of the new company is the date that the new company was incorporated. Give me strength! talk about a LAME name. Glad I don't work for them anymore!
Gabriel/TSS!
Ok first the quick history. Micro$oft sells Xenix to SCO. As part of the contract agreement of sales Micro$oft COULD NOT produce or distribute ANY form of a Unix operating system as long as SCO was in business. (Fact). This is why when NT came out it was touted as "better than Unix". Because M$ couldn't release a Unix flavor. This is why They haven't released their own flavor of M$ LInux. Legally until SCO goes under they CAN'T.
Now here is the thought. What if M$ bought up SCO? Basically buying back Xenix plus some. At that point they contract with SCo is null and void. They (M$) would be free to release a Unix flavor. Now just think about the ramifications of this.
We all know that the bulk of the people that do as BG and the Redmond campus say is because they are Lemmings and/or sheep. Thus to severly damage the growing momentum of Linux they release a M$ Linux that is a total piece of cr*p. Then they could ocme out and in the press say "see how bad Linux is" "we tried to put out a version, but Linux is just not viable." Or somthing to this effect.
How many know that M$ just dumped some money into VMWare and signed in with an OEM agreement with them. This could also throw a wrench into Linux. M$ say starts distributing VMWare with Windows and touting if you want to run Linux you can do it through Windows now.
I think you all can think of the other endless possibilities M$ could do.
Does anybody have any statistics on how many people have gone to jail as a result of copyright offenses? I'd hazard a guess that it is not many. I imagine the law has basically only gone after those making a hefty profit from what they did. Why should how they are breaking copyright law make a difference?
From knowing a little about the Software Piracy issue, I can say that %99.99999 of the time they never prosocute the "home use" pirate. BUT if you start MASS distributing software they raise an eye to you. And if you start selling the software you have pirated THEN they will come after you.
In the case of MP3's I really don't see any law enforcement agency coming after the "home use" pirate. napstar is nothing more than an "open" form of the old Pirate BBS's. Not very many really got taken down. They slowly faded away. The same will happen with Napstar. It to will fade away into something else. Some new technology will replace Napstar. If the RIAA would get a clue they would see that history repeats itself.
But with the mass amount of big corporations trying to take the Internet for themselves anyway they can, what is happening to Napstar doesn't surprise me. If the RIAA can get rid of the Napstar and MP3.com sites. They(RIAA) could open up something similar of their own and have NO compition. It's all about market share. Right now the RIAA has no, zero, zilch, nada, none market share of the MP3 market. I think they realize that MP3's are the next medium for music distribution, and they want ALL the market share, to hold onto their monopoly of the music distribution business. This is why fighting this wave of "stop MP3's!" is so important.
Just my comments on this whole thing.
Gabriel/TSS!
Actually Linux doesn't exactly run on the AS/400, but it will run on the IPCS HINT HINT .
.03 worth -- inflation you know!
I have talked with many people about Linux on the AS/400 and the only reason you would want Linux on the AS/400 is to put it on the IPCS or integrated netfinity card. Linux won't, I repeat won't be able to replace the capabilites of OS/400 yet .
In the buiness world they want a server that is stable, secure, easy to administer etc...
Comparisons:
Linux:
Stable
mostly secure - depends on sysadmin
not so easy to administer or use
cost - cheap!
OS/400 - AS/400:
very stable
very secure: - again a bad sysadmin can somewhat hurt this. but set at Security level 50 (changing ONE system value) and take the simple steps in the "tips and tricks for securing the AS/400" and you have a C2 rated machine.
Easy to use and administer
cost - not so cheap
having used both and a host of other OS's I still like the AS/400 for it's overall capabilites.
If I had my choice I would use the AS/400 as the a back office server and use Linux for firewall,proxy server etc.. maybe for a mail/news server. But I don't think that Linux is ready as a replacement for AS/400's OS/400. Especially in the business world.
Just my
Gabriel/TSS!
AS/400 Guru - Aspiring Linux Guru
http://www.pcisys.net/~rknech/as400.htm