A monopoly on operating systems for *x86 compatible* computers. This is an important distinction that everyone seems to forget. For example, swap "x86 compatible" for "PPC compatible" in that market definition and see if it reminds you of any other company...
Again, it comes back to the monopoly thing. Almost all personal computers are x86, and almost all x86 personal computers use Windows.
IANALBIAAN. (I am not a lawyer, but I am a Norwegian.) Actually, I think the norwegian justice system is more corporation-friendly than the american one. For example the MS anti-trust trial - it would never happen here. Inside trading, etc., is often ignored as well.
It seems to me that Microsoft will copy anything Apple does - a windowing system(yes, I know Apple didn't invent WiMP interfaces), the "ooh, plastic" look(MacOS X -> WinXP), etc. Apple have been doing this for almost ten years, remember.
Norways biggest online computer store(komplett.no, I believe they have franchises in other countries as well, like in England) have got their backs covered. On their Customer Support page, they state quite clearly:
"1 GB tilsvarer 1.000.000.000 bytes med hensyn pa harddisk-kapasitet."
Or, in English, "1 GB equals 1 000 000 000 bytes with regard to hard disk capacity".
Don't copy that floppy!
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Random Humor
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· Score: 1
I saw it yesterday, and it really is great. I especially like the politically correct cast.
You say "I'll just make a copy, for me and a FRIEND!"
And he'll make one and she'll make one and where will it END?
One leads to another, then more then more
And noone buys any games from the store!
Then noone gets paid and they CAN'T make more
The posse breaks up and that CLOSES the door
So don't COPY! Don't COPY THAT FLOPPY!.
Assuming they don't deny inmates human rights, this could become a large problem: When incarcerated people have a right to use the internet, they can contact their old child porn rings, cracking cells etc.
People can also do all sorts of smaller internet misdemeanors without their ISP being able to cancelling their subscription.
You must remember that AOL's targets are those families who just bought a new Compaq, and want to "get on that Internet thing" to help the kids with their homework, book airline tickets and send e-mail to grandma and gramps(Finding porn too, but Pop will keep that a secret). They don't know what a server is. They couldn't care less how TCP/IP handshaking works. All they know is that AOL lets you get access to this wonderful thing. And AOL knows this. Can you imagine the difference made by advertising "Send instant messages to friends and family", with a picture of a guy entering letters, and the advertisement where the entire family sits in front of a tiny camera on top of the monitor, talking directly to their relatives on the other side of the country? I can.
"This is, 8bits/char plus the two extra bits due to parity and other information."
The EVIL BITS?
Just in case this gets /.-ed...
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FreeBSD 4.8 Released
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· Score: -1, Redundant
...here is the full text:
I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, the
latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since
FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE in October 2002, we have made conservative updates
to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known
security issues, and added initial support for Firewire,
HyperThreading, and other new hardware technologies.
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
release notes and errata list, available here:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.8R/relnotes.html
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.8R/errata.html
This release does not include all of the new technologies that were
introduced with FreeBSD 5.0 in January. FreeBSD 4.X releases offer a
more conservative platform than FreeBSD 5.0 at this time. For more
information about the distinctions between FreeBSD 4.X and 5.0, or for
general information about the FreeBSD release engineering activities,
please see :
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
Availability
- ------------
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can
be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied
to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for the i386 are available
now. As of this writing, the final builds for the alpha architecture
are in progress and will be made available shortly.
Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media
from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have
contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD:
FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/
Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html
Each CD or DVD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application
package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles
used to build ports in the ports collection, please see the FreeBSD
Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4
CD set, or the DVD distribution.
If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, or just want to use it for
evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images. We
can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO
images, but they will at least be available from:
ftp.FreeBSD.org
ftp12.FreeBSD.org
ftp14.FreeBSD.org
ftp.au.FreeBSD.org
ftp.es.FreeBSD.org
ftp2.de.FreeBSD.org
ftp4.de.FreeBSD.org
ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org
ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org
ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the
following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi
Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional
mirror(s) first by going to:
ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.IS...irrors-ftp.h tml
For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The
FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through for
users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.IS...ok/install.h tml
Acknowledgments
- ---------------
Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to
finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.8 including
The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and
NTT/Verio.
In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.8-RELEASE
includes:
Scott Long Release Engineering
Bruce A. Mah Release Engineering, Documentation
Robert Watson Release Engineering, Security
Wilko Bulte Release Engineering, Alpha arch
David O'Brien Release Engineering, Alpha arch
John Baldwin Release Engineering
Ruslan Ermilov Release Engi
Now, although you may be uncomfortable with this, there are countries outside your borders. These countries do not (gasp!) follow the same laws as you do. In Norway, any trial can be followed up again, all the way up to the Supreme Court, if the defendant and/or the prosecutor isn't satisfied with the sentence.
But I wonder why they go directly from 8.0 to 9.0. Maybe they realized what a huge mistake 8.0 was?
*Read-support for NTFS not precompiled into kernel
*Built-in XMMS doesn't support mp3(Yes, I know it was to avoid litigation from MPEG)
*Bluecurve
*Slow, etc.
I come from Trondheim, another city in Norway, and it's about the same deal here. We don't have any jocks per se, but it's about the same deal with people who smoke, drink, have new girlfriends every week etc. But these people hang on IRC, come on LAN-parties and do other geeky stuff. This makes it a lot harder to identify the geeks. We geeks usually run Linux, arrange the LAN-parties and sit with our laptops during the breaks. The popular kids still look down on us, though.
Slashdot Mirror
You could put the PDF-file on a CD and take it to a professional printing place. They'll probably do it for about $10-15.
Mac OS X includes Safari as it's default browser.
They are going to literally grind SCO's bones to make their bread.
No, you dumb fuck, they're not going to LITERALLY grind SCO's bones to make their bread.
It's not just Linux that forms a good alternative to Windows. OPenBSD was built to be a secure OS.
Or better yet, QNX, which is (AFAIK) probably the most fault-tolerant OS out there.
It used to be SuSE, now it is SUSE. Check out www.suse.com - they spell it with a capital U.
I hate to be an ass but it's SuSE or Suse, not S.U.S.E., it's not an acronym, it stands for nothing.
Gesellschaft fur Software-und Systementwicklung MBH.
Company for software and system development.
But still. it's spelled SUSE.
A monopoly on operating systems for *x86 compatible* computers. This is an important distinction that everyone seems to forget. For example, swap "x86 compatible" for "PPC compatible" in that market definition and see if it reminds you of any other company...
Again, it comes back to the monopoly thing. Almost all personal computers are x86, and almost all x86 personal computers use Windows.
They really have a 1 Gbit/s connection, but it's (voluntarily) throttled to 250Mbit/s.
IANALBIAAN.
(I am not a lawyer, but I am a Norwegian.)
Actually, I think the norwegian justice system is more corporation-friendly than the american one.
For example the MS anti-trust trial - it would never happen here. Inside trading, etc., is often ignored as well.
It seems to me that Microsoft will copy anything Apple does - a windowing system(yes, I know Apple didn't invent WiMP interfaces), the "ooh, plastic" look(MacOS X -> WinXP), etc. Apple have been doing this for almost ten years, remember.
Norways biggest online computer store(komplett.no, I believe they have franchises in other countries as well, like in England) have got their backs covered. On their Customer Support page, they state quite clearly:
"1 GB tilsvarer 1.000.000.000 bytes med hensyn pa harddisk-kapasitet."
Or, in English, "1 GB equals 1 000 000 000 bytes with regard to hard disk capacity".
I saw it yesterday, and it really is great. I especially like the politically correct cast.
You say "I'll just make a copy, for me and a FRIEND!"
And he'll make one and she'll make one and where will it END?
One leads to another, then more then more
And noone buys any games from the store!
Then noone gets paid and they CAN'T make more
The posse breaks up and that CLOSES the door
So don't COPY! Don't COPY THAT FLOPPY!.
Assuming they don't deny inmates human rights, this could become a large problem: When incarcerated people have a right to use the internet, they can contact their old child porn rings, cracking cells etc. People can also do all sorts of smaller internet misdemeanors without their ISP being able to cancelling their subscription.
They served ice cream made with liquid nitrogen at a science fair I was at. It tasted terrible, though - like ice cream you freeze after it's melted.
You must remember that AOL's targets are those families who just bought a new Compaq, and want to "get on that Internet thing" to help the kids with their homework, book airline tickets and send e-mail to grandma and gramps(Finding porn too, but Pop will keep that a secret). They don't know what a server is. They couldn't care less how TCP/IP handshaking works. All they know is that AOL lets you get access to this wonderful thing. And AOL knows this. Can you imagine the difference made by advertising "Send instant messages to friends and family", with a picture of a guy entering letters, and the advertisement where the entire family sits in front of a tiny camera on top of the monitor, talking directly to their relatives on the other side of the country? I can.
Now I can figure out how "LOLOLOL!!!!!!11" is pronounced! Is it "lahlahlahl" or "ell oh ell oh ell oh ell"?
"This is, 8bits/char plus the two extra bits due to parity and other information." The EVIL BITS?
...here is the full text: I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE in October 2002, we have made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known security issues, and added initial support for Firewire, HyperThreading, and other new hardware technologies. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the release notes and errata list, available here: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.8R/relnotes.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.8R/errata.html This release does not include all of the new technologies that were introduced with FreeBSD 5.0 in January. FreeBSD 4.X releases offer a more conservative platform than FreeBSD 5.0 at this time. For more information about the distinctions between FreeBSD 4.X and 5.0, or for general information about the FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see : http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ Availability - ------------ FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for the i386 are available now. As of this writing, the final builds for the alpha architecture are in progress and will be made available shortly. Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD: FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/ Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html Each CD or DVD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4 CD set, or the DVD distribution. If you can't afford FreeBSD on media, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images. We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from: ftp.FreeBSD.org ftp12.FreeBSD.org ftp14.FreeBSD.org ftp.au.FreeBSD.org ftp.es.FreeBSD.org ftp2.de.FreeBSD.org ftp4.de.FreeBSD.org ftp7.de.FreeBSD.org ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to: ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.IS...irrors-ftp.h tml For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.IS...ok/install.h tml Acknowledgments - --------------- Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.8 including The FreeBSD Mall, Compaq, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and NTT/Verio. In addition to myself, the release engineering team for 4.8-RELEASE includes: Scott Long Release Engineering Bruce A. Mah Release Engineering, Documentation Robert Watson Release Engineering, Security Wilko Bulte Release Engineering, Alpha arch David O'Brien Release Engineering, Alpha arch John Baldwin Release Engineering Ruslan Ermilov Release Engi
Now, although you may be uncomfortable with this, there are countries outside your borders. These countries do not (gasp!) follow the same laws as you do. In Norway, any trial can be followed up again, all the way up to the Supreme Court, if the defendant and/or the prosecutor isn't satisfied with the sentence.
But I wonder why they go directly from 8.0 to 9.0. Maybe they realized what a huge mistake 8.0 was? *Read-support for NTFS not precompiled into kernel *Built-in XMMS doesn't support mp3(Yes, I know it was to avoid litigation from MPEG) *Bluecurve *Slow, etc.
But can you run Linux on one? :P
"The internet filters THEM!"
I come from Trondheim, another city in Norway, and it's about the same deal here. We don't have any jocks per se, but it's about the same deal with people who smoke, drink, have new girlfriends every week etc. But these people hang on IRC, come on LAN-parties and do other geeky stuff. This makes it a lot harder to identify the geeks. We geeks usually run Linux, arrange the LAN-parties and sit with our laptops during the breaks. The popular kids still look down on us, though.
WHAT the FUCK?