When I was at University, in the mid 80s, windowing systems were the real high end, final year undergraduate student stuff. Much as I hate the beast, I think it does deserve some credit for Windows 3.0 and 3.1 which really did take this stuff out to the masses.
I really had to fight my then employers to go for Windows in the mid-90s (we were still using DOS and Wordperfect) and the benefits of the switch were real and immediate. Back then Linux was for geeks (:->) and nothing else was really a serious, low cost option for mass roll out on cheap hardware.
The one leader is on a even stickier wicket than Balir is one Saddam Hussein. Given Saddam is a murdering bastard I'll back Blair no matter how tough it gets.
The earliest religious war I took part in was between the 6502 users (eg PETs) and the good guys, like me, who hacked on the Z80 (eg most/all CP/M machines).
Have to say that the intellectual case for the 6502 looked stronger, but seems to me that the Z80 has lasted the course better (though not as well as the 8080 family which the Z80 was meant to be an improvement on!).
We really have a chance to make this wave of the 'net' very different from the previous round - and that means taking control and offering an alternative vision (see Consume).
Who care about what Business Week says? It's about as interesting as 3G phones from their end - ie not at all interesting, just another way to part us from our money. Yes, let's all buy wireless cards, but learn the lesson of P2P and make them available to all.
So far the only Linux machine that has accessed my site is my own - the site has been up for months and is quiet - about 20 - 30 visitors a day, but the results are still very disappointing.
The server world is very different - I am hacking away at perl for apache on Linux right now.
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When I was at University, in the mid 80s, windowing systems were the real high end, final year undergraduate student stuff. Much as I hate the beast, I think it does deserve some credit for Windows 3.0 and 3.1 which really did take this stuff out to the masses.
I really had to fight my then employers to go for Windows in the mid-90s (we were still using DOS and Wordperfect) and the benefits of the switch were real and immediate. Back then Linux was for geeks (:->) and nothing else was really a serious, low cost option for mass roll out on cheap hardware.
That's all changed now, of course.
The one leader is on a even stickier wicket than Balir is one Saddam Hussein. Given Saddam is a murdering bastard I'll back Blair no matter how tough it gets.
Would be interesting to know what the EU would do with Gallileo at this moment in time. I dare say they would follow the US lead, I suppose...
Anybody with a Gameboy Color has a Z80 machine.
The earliest religious war I took part in was between the 6502 users (eg PETs) and the good guys, like me, who hacked on the Z80 (eg most/all CP/M machines).
Have to say that the intellectual case for the 6502 looked stronger, but seems to me that the Z80 has lasted the course better (though not as well as the 8080 family which the Z80 was meant to be an improvement on!).
We really have a chance to make this wave of the 'net' very different from the previous round - and that means taking control and offering an alternative vision (see Consume).
Who care about what Business Week says? It's about as interesting as 3G phones from their end - ie not at all interesting, just another way to part us from our money. Yes, let's all buy wireless cards, but learn the lesson of P2P and make them available to all.
So far the only Linux machine that has accessed my site is my own - the site has been up for months and is quiet - about 20 - 30 visitors a day, but the results are still very disappointing.
The server world is very different - I am hacking away at perl for apache on Linux right now.