Where on earth did you learn how to write?
Anyway, I "think" you mean that marketing will triumph. If so, I tend to agree. I was reading a ZDnet article the other day about standards. They mentioned a number of times how Windows is a standard, simply because it's everywhere, even though there's no official "desktop standard". We gotta long fight ahead of us!
Douglas Adams, of Hitchikers Guide fame? Oh, shit. He was one of my favorite authors, in a bizaare sort, towelish way. I'm not as moved as when Heinlein died, but still... My condolences to the many fans out there. May your towels always be full of gargleblaster and food!
Time to be the old,weird guy.
I remember, dimly, when gas was as low as 16 cents per gallon, with the average cost around 24 cents. My dad spazzed out when we went to northern Wisconsin (I grew up in La Crosse, WI.) in 1974/5 and gas was an astonishing 48 cents per gallon!! I was paying 35 cents per gallon when I was 19, wayyyyyy back in 1979. The first gas crunch hit us, when, 1983? We really need to get off our collective asses and find a decent alternative to gasoline. Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions.
When I started buying CD-R media, it was around $5 to $6 per disc. I'm still going to go and buy a couple of hundred at current prices though.
But, aren't you stuck with a single button mouse/trackpad/thingie? That's the main reason I bought a Compaq 1800T laptop and stuffed Mandrake 8.0 on it. I know you can put a serial or PS2 mouse externally on a laptop, but what about the built in device?
Think about all the fun you can have with the old coots who won't understand a damn thing you're saying though. You know, like "What out for that cliff." and fun things like that.
Actually, I've got a very big tool. I'm a huge Tool fan too. dumbass troll...
I'm going to delete WinX from my entire network, not just a simple workstation. If you think I'm making this decision bsaed solely on this one M$ bashing story, well I'd like to talk to you about this bridge I have...
And who's the dumbass moderator that modded me down as redundant? Look at the posting order. I'm post #13. You're possibly seeing someone else asking the same sort of question much later than me, but to an earlier post. Jeez, ask a simple question.
Whoops! I spoke to soon. I finally got through to Ameritech. I'm ordering a 768/128 w/ 5 IP DSL connection from them. Damn good price too. $74.00 per month. FSCK cable. I was told that I'd be hooked up in 2 weeks. Now, was it a black goat I sacrifice? Oh, wait, that's for SCSI. Anyone know what the DSL gods want for a sacrifice?
My DSL provider, @link Networks, just went belly up. I have(had) SDSL 512k/512k and 32 IP addresses. All for $159.00/month. My service basically never went down. The people at Nortel Networks are, from what I can garner from various sources, in complete control of @link. Just this morning I subscribed to Charter Cable for 384k/128k with 5 IP addresses. The price? $159.00/month. It totally sucks that I have to degrade my service in order to pay the same price, but, that's life in America these days.
Give him a break. It's his choice if he wants to risk his life doing this, not yours. I, for one, don't think he's a freak at all. Of course, I grew up during the rocket crazed 60's, so I really don't see anything that insane about what he's doing. The guy is only 4 years older than I am and I can empathise with what he's doing very, very much. I also dropped out of college. Wanna compare tax returns? He deserves kudos for having the balls to try what NASA has been saying is impossible. What if he succeeds? Mass produced space-rockets? WOOHOO!! Sign me up!
I'm trying to remember the letter to the Homebrew club. It's been ages since I read "Hackers". Wasn't it something to the effect of "We stole DOS from you, fuck off. Bill G."?
I've yet to make my HP 812c printer work under Linux. Maybe it'll work with the latest Mandrake release. I even bought the commercial version of CUPS. No dice. At least my USB mouse works...
What's really annoying is having to call M$ tech support a lot of times. Like when I worked as a network engineer/consultant, I would usually have to call M$ 1 to 4 times a week. Yes, I knew 90% of the answers or fixes, but when NT4 starts getting pissy and you have absolutely no idea why, you gotta deal with them. At least getting the MSDN stuff helped. But, for gods sake, try getting a straight answer out of M$ tech support. YIKES!
>>DSL sucks and is unstable/unusable at any promised speed
I'm writing this using a 768k ADSL connection. Next month, I will be changing the connection I use at the ISP I own to DSL, only keeping T1's for the phone lines.
I like those channels (Discovery, et. al.), but the same commercials, every 4.76 minutes is enough to drive anyone crazy. Except, of course, those perfectly mentally balanced floks like PETA members. They can't be driven crazier...
PBS is to liberalism as Rush Limbaugh is to conservatism. Being basically conservative myself, if I do watch any PBS, most of the time I'm laughing at the lack of objectivism or screaming at it. NPR (National Public Radio) is even worse. After listening to that in the morning, even I want to go and hug a tree.
I thought that the joke is close to a disater/tragedy classic. Who the hell uses Mastercard anyway? I get so many offers for "pre-approved" credit cards it's silly. To all credit card marketeers out there: get a grip, I really don't need $4,000,000 dollars worth of credit cards. One is enough. The balance? Maybe $200. The limit? $10,000. That's enough to buy a few toys with, but I prefer to save. Think about it. I saw an article today about how our economy might be getting hurt by all the credit cards out there and the ways that people misuse them. Whatever happened to the day when a person saved up for something?
"Maybe you don't trust them, but get a reality check.. the vast majority of people trust Microsoft and Bill Gates implicitly"
I was, in essence, forced to leave my last job, as a network engineer, simply because I was vocal about my distrust and loathing of Microsoft products, specifically servers. There were other mitigating factors, like being setup by a co-worker, but in the main, I was not liked by upper management because I told them they were wasting money buying all these damn licenses and additional hardware, when they didn't need to. I also PROVED to them, in a testbed, that M$ products were unreliable. I was told, by a Director and a VP, "Quit bashing Microsoft, we chose to use it, now make it work.". Of course, they chose M$ without even looking at other approaches. The whole point I'm trying to get at is, management has been brain-washed by M$'s market droids to the point that you can't change their minds! If these well-educated, supposedly intelligent people can get pulled in by the hype-meisters, does the general public really stand a chance?
Just curious here. What do you have against Netware? What version? I just finished a network OS upgrade research project and came up with Netware 5.x as the winner over Linux (yes, go ahead and flame me) and Win2K. This was a small shop that already had a Netware box, um, a 3.11 box. I've ran Netware 4.x on a 3000+ user netwrok with over 75 WAN connections also. I rather like it for file/print and user auth. Certainly not for apps though.
Ech, I had to wipe the drool off my keyboard. Now, what was I going to say? Oh yea. Getting actual ethernet to the house would not be much different than DSL or cable. Faster and cheaper, probably, but realistically what do you get? A connection to a network and an IP address(es). The speed capability of Ethernet though. 100mbs Internet connection. Cheap hosting solutions. Anyone hear about pricing?
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Where on earth did you learn how to write? Anyway, I "think" you mean that marketing will triumph. If so, I tend to agree. I was reading a ZDnet article the other day about standards. They mentioned a number of times how Windows is a standard, simply because it's everywhere, even though there's no official "desktop standard". We gotta long fight ahead of us!
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so long and thanx for all the fish, doug.
Dive Gear
Douglas Adams, of Hitchikers Guide fame? Oh, shit. He was one of my favorite authors, in a bizaare sort, towelish way. I'm not as moved as when Heinlein died, but still... My condolences to the many fans out there. May your towels always be full of gargleblaster and food!
Dive Gear
Thanx for the link to ESR's little doc, it's been a long time since I've read that. :)
Dive Gear
yeah, but does it have 9 hours of battery life?
Ya know, I'm not sure. Probably around 4 hours. I've never seen how long the battery will last.
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Time to be the old,weird guy.
I remember, dimly, when gas was as low as 16 cents per gallon, with the average cost around 24 cents. My dad spazzed out when we went to northern Wisconsin (I grew up in La Crosse, WI.) in 1974/5 and gas was an astonishing 48 cents per gallon!! I was paying 35 cents per gallon when I was 19, wayyyyyy back in 1979. The first gas crunch hit us, when, 1983? We really need to get off our collective asses and find a decent alternative to gasoline. Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions.
When I started buying CD-R media, it was around $5 to $6 per disc. I'm still going to go and buy a couple of hundred at current prices though.
Dive Gear
But, aren't you stuck with a single button mouse/trackpad/thingie? That's the main reason I bought a Compaq 1800T laptop and stuffed Mandrake 8.0 on it. I know you can put a serial or PS2 mouse externally on a laptop, but what about the built in device?
Dive Gear
Think about all the fun you can have with the old coots who won't understand a damn thing you're saying though. You know, like "What out for that cliff." and fun things like that.
Dive Gear
Actually, I've got a very big tool. I'm a huge Tool fan too. dumbass troll...
I'm going to delete WinX from my entire network, not just a simple workstation. If you think I'm making this decision bsaed solely on this one M$ bashing story, well I'd like to talk to you about this bridge I have...
And who's the dumbass moderator that modded me down as redundant? Look at the posting order. I'm post #13. You're possibly seeing someone else asking the same sort of question much later than me, but to an earlier post. Jeez, ask a simple question.
Dive Gear
streamsicle rocks...
Dive Gear
Whoops! I spoke to soon. I finally got through to Ameritech. I'm ordering a 768/128 w/ 5 IP DSL connection from them. Damn good price too. $74.00 per month. FSCK cable. I was told that I'd be hooked up in 2 weeks. Now, was it a black goat I sacrifice? Oh, wait, that's for SCSI. Anyone know what the DSL gods want for a sacrifice?
Dive Gear
My DSL provider, @link Networks, just went belly up. I have(had) SDSL 512k/512k and 32 IP addresses. All for $159.00/month. My service basically never went down. The people at Nortel Networks are, from what I can garner from various sources, in complete control of @link. Just this morning I subscribed to Charter Cable for 384k/128k with 5 IP addresses. The price? $159.00/month. It totally sucks that I have to degrade my service in order to pay the same price, but, that's life in America these days.
Dive Gear
Give him a break. It's his choice if he wants to risk his life doing this, not yours. I, for one, don't think he's a freak at all. Of course, I grew up during the rocket crazed 60's, so I really don't see anything that insane about what he's doing. The guy is only 4 years older than I am and I can empathise with what he's doing very, very much. I also dropped out of college. Wanna compare tax returns? He deserves kudos for having the balls to try what NASA has been saying is impossible. What if he succeeds? Mass produced space-rockets? WOOHOO!! Sign me up!
Dive Gear
I'm trying to remember the letter to the Homebrew club. It's been ages since I read "Hackers". Wasn't it something to the effect of "We stole DOS from you, fuck off. Bill G."?
Dive Gear
Frankly, I prefer my 27" monitor...
Dive Gear
I've yet to make my HP 812c printer work under Linux. Maybe it'll work with the latest Mandrake release. I even bought the commercial version of CUPS. No dice. At least my USB mouse works...
Dive Gear
What's really annoying is having to call M$ tech support a lot of times. Like when I worked as a network engineer/consultant, I would usually have to call M$ 1 to 4 times a week. Yes, I knew 90% of the answers or fixes, but when NT4 starts getting pissy and you have absolutely no idea why, you gotta deal with them. At least getting the MSDN stuff helped. But, for gods sake, try getting a straight answer out of M$ tech support. YIKES!
Dive Gear
>>DSL sucks and is unstable/unusable at any promised speed I'm writing this using a 768k ADSL connection. Next month, I will be changing the connection I use at the ISP I own to DSL, only keeping T1's for the phone lines.
Dive Gear
I like those channels (Discovery, et. al.), but the same commercials, every 4.76 minutes is enough to drive anyone crazy. Except, of course, those perfectly mentally balanced floks like PETA members. They can't be driven crazier...
Dive Gear
PBS is to liberalism as Rush Limbaugh is to conservatism. Being basically conservative myself, if I do watch any PBS, most of the time I'm laughing at the lack of objectivism or screaming at it. NPR (National Public Radio) is even worse. After listening to that in the morning, even I want to go and hug a tree.
Dive Gear
I thought that the joke is close to a disater/tragedy classic. Who the hell uses Mastercard anyway? I get so many offers for "pre-approved" credit cards it's silly. To all credit card marketeers out there: get a grip, I really don't need $4,000,000 dollars worth of credit cards. One is enough. The balance? Maybe $200. The limit? $10,000. That's enough to buy a few toys with, but I prefer to save. Think about it. I saw an article today about how our economy might be getting hurt by all the credit cards out there and the ways that people misuse them. Whatever happened to the day when a person saved up for something?
Dive Gear
"Maybe you don't trust them, but get a reality check.. the vast majority of people trust Microsoft and Bill Gates implicitly"
I was, in essence, forced to leave my last job, as a network engineer, simply because I was vocal about my distrust and loathing of Microsoft products, specifically servers. There were other mitigating factors, like being setup by a co-worker, but in the main, I was not liked by upper management because I told them they were wasting money buying all these damn licenses and additional hardware, when they didn't need to. I also PROVED to them, in a testbed, that M$ products were unreliable. I was told, by a Director and a VP, "Quit bashing Microsoft, we chose to use it, now make it work.". Of course, they chose M$ without even looking at other approaches. The whole point I'm trying to get at is, management has been brain-washed by M$'s market droids to the point that you can't change their minds! If these well-educated, supposedly intelligent people can get pulled in by the hype-meisters, does the general public really stand a chance?
Dive Gear
The commercial site I run, in partnership with my brother-in-law, is profitable. We sell dive gear.
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Just curious here. What do you have against Netware? What version? I just finished a network OS upgrade research project and came up with Netware 5.x as the winner over Linux (yes, go ahead and flame me) and Win2K. This was a small shop that already had a Netware box, um, a 3.11 box. I've ran Netware 4.x on a 3000+ user netwrok with over 75 WAN connections also. I rather like it for file/print and user auth. Certainly not for apps though.
Dive Gear
Ech, I had to wipe the drool off my keyboard. Now, what was I going to say? Oh yea. Getting actual ethernet to the house would not be much different than DSL or cable. Faster and cheaper, probably, but realistically what do you get? A connection to a network and an IP address(es). The speed capability of Ethernet though. 100mbs Internet connection. Cheap hosting solutions. Anyone hear about pricing?
Dive Gear