IBM is in the midst of moving all their coporate desktops to Linux. When my new laptop comes in this next week I'll set it up to dual boot by logging in to the internal software site and downloading the Linux desktop. Later in the cycle the machines will be delivered dual boot or Linux only. I doubt that IBM will ship one set of machines for internal use without the TC chip and another for general consumption with it if TC is meant to prevent alternative OSes. IBM has announced support of non-Microsoft OSes, has contributed nearly $1 Billion to Linux and Open Source/Free Software projects, has ported most if not all major enterprise apps to Linux. So they have too much skin in the game to support that notion. I'd beware of our Congressidiots being persuaded by special interest groups into passing some asshat law to "protect the children" or enforce the laws on copyright that further errodes the rights of US citizens.
Why get your knickers in a knot over anything Gates says. His success rate with his other big predictions is lower than pecking chickens or a psychic mule calling presidential elections, forecasting hurricanes, and Super Bowl winners.
If he expects M$ Windows to be still be a viable choice in 10 years than he had best get his gang of coders to fixing all the security holes in M$ products. Otherwise within five years the script kiddies and spammers will totally own the M$ environment, enough major corporations will follow IBM and other IT shops in converting to the Linux desktop that ordinary users will start to clamor for preloaded Linux boxes so they can be compatible with their work environment. There will always be enough of us dedicated Contraians that UNIX(tm),the BDSs, and other alternatives will still be there "just because".
Another prediction (from the pecking chickens) is that in five years Longhorn will have so many delays that the features will be scaled back even more to get to market that someone at M$ marketing will name the next version of Windows(tm) "Shorthorn".
I never said all government's bad. We just don't need so damn much of it and a lot more personal initiative when it comes to caring for yourself. If you're able bodied then get off your ass and work or go hungry. Period. There must be plenty of jobs because we have a steady stream of illegals breaking into the US to get them. I've swept floors, drove a delivery truck, scrubbed toilets, carried groceries, even delivered Chinese take out. Been there, done that and didn't let it keep me down or make me feel that someone owed me something that I didn't earn or make me envious that someone else had more than me. Welfare should only go to those who are not able physically or mentally.
As for the other "entitlement" programs. Scrap 'em all. They only serve to redistribute the assests of working people into the hands of none or lesser producers. (socialism) and to create and maintain a vast bureaucracy. What part of keep your hands out of my family's resources is not clear? I work hard to provide for my family, not some lazy ass politician and his welfare constituency. The sooner people take some pride in what they are and what they accomplish, the sooner they will achieve independence from government and need less of it.
The only time a president made any difference to me is when Jimmy Carter and his administration let the wheels fall off the economic wagon. Other than that I have always done better irregardless of which party was in office, or their tax laws, or price of gas, etc. That's because I have always taken responsibilbity for my own education, career development, and well being. I work harder and smarter than the next guy and have a track record of results and valid solutions. If I get laid off, and I have been, and I have quit bad jobs, getting another is a matter of hustling one up. And so far at higher pay each time.
What I'm saying is get off your duffs, keep up to date in whatever your field is, and don't look to the gubmint to provide. Waiting for them is like waiting for your lazy brother-in-law to pay you back that money he borrowed. Ain't gonna happen. I lived in near poverty as a kid and decided I didn't want to live like that. I saw the politicians only wanted to help a few and to keep the rest poor as a pool of need they could point to as a reason for increasing the bureaucracy and taxes.
So quit your whining, vote for which ever party/person you want and remember you are the one resposible for your life. We wouldn't need so much help from the government if we weren't already getting too much help from the government.
As I read this I have an install running on RH Enterprise Server 3. It's Biggest Blue's enterprise software, Directory Server w/ DB2, WebSphere, and a couple of other major apps that will eventually support an international corporation with thousands of users. I've seen this same setup handle even more users without breaking a sweat. I'm not that big a fan of Red Hat but the server distro scales great from single CPU to multi CPUs on big boxen. The install's going easier than the same stuff on M$ server software which I fought with for two weeks before switching to Red Hat. My next goal is to do the same install with SuSE server.
Just ignore the FUD pusher and keep on doing business with Linux. Idiots will eventually show themselves to be just that and then they fade off into obscurity.
I worked for a company that was taken over by CA. They quit paying the consultants expenses in a ploy to save the money for Wang and Kumar and to get us to quit instead of laying us off and paying unemployment. The bastards still owe me thousands and I eventually quit them because of it when I saw what was happening and realized I would never recover the money. One of the jokes among former CA consultants when they meet is about how much money CA cheated them out of. And that was during Wang's watch. Send them both to the slammer for theft and misconduct.
I'd rather like to see something along this line that would assemble the finest Cuba Libre on the planet, a good cigar, and then assemble some red headed carbon based life form to share it with. That would be nano-technology worth investing in!
Now I can kill myself in a whole different class of plane and for a lot less money. Any landing that doesn't start off "Oh, shit!" and end in a ball of flame and a plume of smoke is a good one.
Circumcised against my wishes at the tender young age of 1 day that is. I never had a chance to explain that I would not join the Jewish or Islamic religions that require infant sacrifices of the foreskin, or join up with any culture that did the same to 12 year olds. I'm not anti Jewish but I got a very large charge from watching the Jewish pediatrician's face when I explained that my son would not be circumsized. He almost had a stroke and raged that the lad would suffer from malformed genitals unless he was allowed to take the knife to him.
I wonder if Nigeria is one of the countries that still practice circumcision and they do indeed mean snipped. Ouch!
While most of this post is OK, the one thing that I must take exception with is that the police, or any government agency, has no 'right' to do anything. What they have is an 'authority' to perform certain actions that come from the people to act on our behalf. We have checks and balances to prevent abuse of that authority in the US. We also extend as in the Patriot Act and do regulate that authority as in the Miranda Act, habeus corpus, posse comitatus (ignored by Clinton and Reno in Waco, TX) and other guide lines.
And as the last line notes, the Red Army guards the borders to keep the people in. No one is paying smugglers to get into China and enjoy the fruits of the revolution.
First off, there are many services using radio spectrum in the HF regions where the interference takes place. Get a short wave radio and you can hear all sorts of long distance communications taking place by airlines, shipping, military, news services, governments, short wave broadcasters, and so forth. They also have a right to clear communications.
These hobbyists, who use a very small portion of the frequencies in question, include a large number of people who are active in public service sectors for emergencies and for the public welfare in general (for free and providing their own equipment), such as providing free phone patch services for the military in remote areas to call home. In emergencies when the local utilities go out, getting traffic into unaffected areas is very important and if that receiving area has BPL interference than life and limb could be in jeopordy.
BPL is supposed to conform to the existing rules and regulations in place stating that no service is allowed to interfere with another. Period. All these other services have to conform and just because a few people want to make money off the BPL for a few people at the expense of all others does not give them the right to use an unsound technology to do it. If they can come up with good technology that doesn't cause problems than by all means go ahead. And BTW, what are you going to do if you have a transmitter of any service located nearby that continuously knocks out your BPL link? Nothing. BPL is a Type 15 service that has no legal recourse when it is interferred with. BPL as current technology is broken and most likely cannot be cleaned up without massive expense (guess who pays) and investment in a much different type of equipment than is proposed. The power companies want to use the current equipment for BPL because it is cheap. If they have to build a different technology than it is no longer going to be cheap.
Plus what will happen should BPL go through is that the power companies will lease the grid to the existing ISPs and your fees will likely remain within a few percentage points of existing services over POTS and cable anyway. The idea is to make highspeed internet available to all, not to keep your price down.
Morticia and I thought we were going to have to support Pugsly forever. He and Thing sit around playing video games and day. Pugs is 47 now, never finished school and just sits on his ass day in and day out. A true slacker. But he has the highest scores of any amateur gamer, dead or alive. Where can I get more information on this professional gaming thing so I can take the ever Loverly Morticia on our second honeymoon?
I still get all my CDs/tapes/records at the local used music shop where I can fill in the gaps in my collections at a reasonable price. All the new stuff of nearly every genre is just pure junk or not worth the price.
The web sites linked in the spam mails forging my domain name to tout off shore drugs all led to false entries in the domain registration. Some of these web sites were selling some fairly dangerous drugs that should only be used under strict controls.
I did track down a couple of the hosting companies and the legitimate ones shut off the web sites. The web sites hosted in China just kept on running for several more weeks.
I just went through getting my domain renewed and had to provide a driver's license and signed statments in order to renew. This should also be the rule for getting a site hosted as well, not just who ever has a check book.
Looking/hacking at the actual document code is the most missed feature on all the other word processors in my opinion. There is no end to wretched mistakes in Word documents that no amount of fiddling with the Clippie or the formatting panel can fix, so I have to manage with second best when dealing with internal project documents. Bullets and indents can be a nightmare. If Corel releases a good product then I will line up to purchase it.
No Blue Linux. Early internal desktop adaptors are on Fedora but the corporate wide roll out on the desktop with all the enterprise tools (expenses, email, time reporting, etc.) will be running native using SuSE Linux.
Freedom of choice is always better, Dude (or Dudette).
I just bought the Sharp Zaurus SL-5600 and it kicks the snot out of my Palm Pilot. It's a few years newer but is still a better machine than the most recent Palms. And when I get the addons sneaked in past the lovely but untrusting Morticia, then I will have far more than had I upgraded the Palm.
Mine came from Amazon.com @ $300.00 - new in the box. This is the best techno trinket I've had years.
Original poster has to be a troll - or his significant other won't let him get the better toy and it's just sour grapes talking.
When I worked at GTE the company got the contract to lay the fiber optic cable around the border of China and put in the network centers that setup a ring around China. Total control of all the traffic in and out of the country, or so they hoped. A career limiting move came when I wrote Chuck Lee, CEO of GTE, and said we were helping the same Communist government that gave us Tianamen Square and would continue to repress the Chinese people using this technology. But Bean Counters only care about profit and damn the people that get get screwed over in the process.
As a side note, I knew a lad working near me from China who had been at Tianamen Square the day before and then the day after the massacre happened. When he saw what the army had done to their own people he went home, packed and left for Hong Kong and then to the US.
Censorship is only one way the Communists will use to stay in power and shooting another bunch of college kids can happen again.
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If he expects M$ Windows to be still be a viable choice in 10 years than he had best get his gang of coders to fixing all the security holes in M$ products. Otherwise within five years the script kiddies and spammers will totally own the M$ environment, enough major corporations will follow IBM and other IT shops in converting to the Linux desktop that ordinary users will start to clamor for preloaded Linux boxes so they can be compatible with their work environment. There will always be enough of us dedicated Contraians that UNIX(tm),the BDSs, and other alternatives will still be there "just because".
Another prediction (from the pecking chickens) is that in five years Longhorn will have so many delays that the features will be scaled back even more to get to market that someone at M$ marketing will name the next version of Windows(tm) "Shorthorn".
As for the other "entitlement" programs. Scrap 'em all. They only serve to redistribute the assests of working people into the hands of none or lesser producers. (socialism) and to create and maintain a vast bureaucracy. What part of keep your hands out of my family's resources is not clear? I work hard to provide for my family, not some lazy ass politician and his welfare constituency. The sooner people take some pride in what they are and what they accomplish, the sooner they will achieve independence from government and need less of it.
What I'm saying is get off your duffs, keep up to date in whatever your field is, and don't look to the gubmint to provide. Waiting for them is like waiting for your lazy brother-in-law to pay you back that money he borrowed. Ain't gonna happen. I lived in near poverty as a kid and decided I didn't want to live like that. I saw the politicians only wanted to help a few and to keep the rest poor as a pool of need they could point to as a reason for increasing the bureaucracy and taxes.
So quit your whining, vote for which ever party/person you want and remember you are the one resposible for your life. We wouldn't need so much help from the government if we weren't already getting too much help from the government.
Just ignore the FUD pusher and keep on doing business with Linux. Idiots will eventually show themselves to be just that and then they fade off into obscurity.
It's every development shop, every coder, and IT oriented project for every OS on the planet being hindered.
I wonder if Nigeria is one of the countries that still practice circumcision and they do indeed mean snipped. Ouch!
While most of this post is OK, the one thing that I must take exception with is that the police, or any government agency, has no 'right' to do anything. What they have is an 'authority' to perform certain actions that come from the people to act on our behalf. We have checks and balances to prevent abuse of that authority in the US. We also extend as in the Patriot Act and do regulate that authority as in the Miranda Act, habeus corpus, posse comitatus (ignored by Clinton and Reno in Waco, TX) and other guide lines. And as the last line notes, the Red Army guards the borders to keep the people in. No one is paying smugglers to get into China and enjoy the fruits of the revolution.
These hobbyists, who use a very small portion of the frequencies in question, include a large number of people who are active in public service sectors for emergencies and for the public welfare in general (for free and providing their own equipment), such as providing free phone patch services for the military in remote areas to call home. In emergencies when the local utilities go out, getting traffic into unaffected areas is very important and if that receiving area has BPL interference than life and limb could be in jeopordy.
BPL is supposed to conform to the existing rules and regulations in place stating that no service is allowed to interfere with another. Period. All these other services have to conform and just because a few people want to make money off the BPL for a few people at the expense of all others does not give them the right to use an unsound technology to do it. If they can come up with good technology that doesn't cause problems than by all means go ahead. And BTW, what are you going to do if you have a transmitter of any service located nearby that continuously knocks out your BPL link? Nothing. BPL is a Type 15 service that has no legal recourse when it is interferred with. BPL as current technology is broken and most likely cannot be cleaned up without massive expense (guess who pays) and investment in a much different type of equipment than is proposed. The power companies want to use the current equipment for BPL because it is cheap. If they have to build a different technology than it is no longer going to be cheap.
Plus what will happen should BPL go through is that the power companies will lease the grid to the existing ISPs and your fees will likely remain within a few percentage points of existing services over POTS and cable anyway. The idea is to make highspeed internet available to all, not to keep your price down.
Morticia and I thought we were going to have to support Pugsly forever. He and Thing sit around playing video games and day. Pugs is 47 now, never finished school and just sits on his ass day in and day out. A true slacker. But he has the highest scores of any amateur gamer, dead or alive. Where can I get more information on this professional gaming thing so I can take the ever Loverly Morticia on our second honeymoon?
It's way past my bedtime.
I did track down a couple of the hosting companies and the legitimate ones shut off the web sites. The web sites hosted in China just kept on running for several more weeks.
I just went through getting my domain renewed and had to provide a driver's license and signed statments in order to renew. This should also be the rule for getting a site hosted as well, not just who ever has a check book.
1) "This is your wife's divorce attorney". 2) "Hi. I'm from the government and I'm here to help".
Looking/hacking at the actual document code is the most missed feature on all the other word processors in my opinion. There is no end to wretched mistakes in Word documents that no amount of fiddling with the Clippie or the formatting panel can fix, so I have to manage with second best when dealing with internal project documents. Bullets and indents can be a nightmare. If Corel releases a good product then I will line up to purchase it.
If I had been born without a conscience I could have been a lawyer instead of a geek. Law suits will never be outsourced. 8^D
No Blue Linux. Early internal desktop adaptors are on Fedora but the corporate wide roll out on the desktop with all the enterprise tools (expenses, email, time reporting, etc.) will be running native using SuSE Linux.
Freedom of choice is always better, Dude (or Dudette).
I just bought the Sharp Zaurus SL-5600 and it kicks the snot out of my Palm Pilot. It's a few years newer but is still a better machine than the most recent Palms. And when I get the addons sneaked in past the lovely but untrusting Morticia, then I will have far more than had I upgraded the Palm.
Mine came from Amazon.com @ $300.00 - new in the box. This is the best techno trinket I've had years.
Original poster has to be a troll - or his significant other won't let him get the better toy and it's just sour grapes talking.
When I worked at GTE the company got the contract to lay the fiber optic cable around the border of China and put in the network centers that setup a ring around China. Total control of all the traffic in and out of the country, or so they hoped. A career limiting move came when I wrote Chuck Lee, CEO of GTE, and said we were helping the same Communist government that gave us Tianamen Square and would continue to repress the Chinese people using this technology. But Bean Counters only care about profit and damn the people that get get screwed over in the process.
As a side note, I knew a lad working near me from China who had been at Tianamen Square the day before and then the day after the massacre happened. When he saw what the army had done to their own people he went home, packed and left for Hong Kong and then to the US.
Censorship is only one way the Communists will use to stay in power and shooting another bunch of college kids can happen again.
Lotus under WINE IIRC.