The Linux install disks are up on the internal LAN for IBM use only and there is even a LAN install process that includes disk partitioning. The first wave are techs that will do their own install but support is offered through the Help Desk.If you don't have access then you can't see for yourself. Sorry. The Leaked Linux Memo is well documented, even on/. IBM will be issuing new machines to IBMers with Linux installed on them in the very near future.
We're already moving all of our internal desktop users to Linux over the next two years. There will still be dual boot for those that need it but most corporate desktop users not needing another operatng system will run pure Linux for the daily chores of email and document exchange. All my product support work is done in Java, PERL, and scripting so I can be 100% Linux for all my activities now. The default window manager will be Gnome but you can use others as your taste dictates. Most interprise applications have already been ported and the rest will be. The elephant is not only dancing but leading the parade.
It ain't no rumor, folks. And all but one or two corporate desktop applications have already been, or are being ported to Linux native right now, along with best of breed 3rd party apps creates a completely functioning desktop invironment that kicks the assbone royally. The goal is to migrate to 100% Linux or dual boot with M$ by sometime in 2005. 325,000+/- desktops on Linux and IBM customers following our lead. Hehehe. I've seen the desktop in action and The Future(tm) is here and the desktop IS Linux. Get used to it Microsofties.
When? I must have been sleeping the day M$ dropped their prices. And Good? I just lost another two days of productivity having to get my company laptop re-imaged because Internet Exploder got corrupted while running a non-M$ JVM for an app. And because that piece of crap is part of the OS, I had get a fresh install and am still rebuilding the thing back to where I can support my customers. In the last year I've lost a total of a couple of weeks or more productivity dealing with M$ specific problems. Plus I run about two hours a month doing security scans and adding mandatory patches. At the very high, 3 figure hourly rate I am billed out at, that is not cheaper by any means. And the initial cost is too damn high in the first place.
I will be so glad when we switch to the Linux desktop and StarOffice or OOo so we can be free from Bill The Bandit and lost time like this. Most of my division's stuff runs on Java and WebSphere anyway so the switch will be easy for us.
Now we can outsource manure production along with the code being prodced there. Of course we may need better labeling laws to be able to tell the difference.
While the leftist media tries to make everyone believe that China is post-Communist because of a little economic freedom, this story just proves they are still just as repressive as ever. China has again and still, been ranked as not free by Freedom House. While Taiwan has been ranked as the second most free country in Asia along with South Korea and just behind Japan.
It is obvious that Taiwan should be supported by the rest of the free peoples of the world and the UN, instead of kowtowing to the Communists just because of their large markets and massive armies.
I haven't been to a movie on a flat IMAX screen but the local domed system sucks big time. I took my kids to see Star Wars and everything that was supposed to have a straight line was warped and twisted. Light sabers that are bent and twisted buildings are not worth the price of admission. If the film was modified to be shown on a dome it might be different - but until then save your money.
Me too. I've already made the move so that next year when my registration date is up I'll switch over to my hosting company's domain registration service. Versign lied to me last renewal period about why I had to re-up with them. So screw Verisign. And screw SCO while I'm venting.
Gomez
MIT still Rules. I'd like to have an SUV sized one please to replace the aging swamp buggy here in the Everglades. Make the walking pads gator proof and the cabin skeeter proof. I'd like one in Rustoleum Primer and with a gun rack in the back of the cabin,
The fact is that most of the modern electronics we have were either been created or have been advanced by hams, and that includes computers. I started my career as a programmer after a bunch of us hams decided to build computer interfaces (TRS-80 Mod I) to our ham radios to act as CW and RTTY terminals. I became the software guru for the group and began a career that has included everything from coder to software architect and now computer security. I have written thousands of lines of code in assembler and C, and designed dozens of system, mostly async and TCP/IP communications for everything from credit card operations to healthcare provider networks and specialty communications sytems for phone companies.
I now work for a pretty large and famous computer company known by it's three letter acronym with an active list of a couple thousand known hams. Hams are using (and programming and building) computer interfaces for all sorts of digital modes. We don't wait for you programmers to build it for us. Most of the times it's the other way around. And we're much better programmers, engineers, and technicians than you are because we are in a technical hobby that gives us ways to expand both endeavors - for fun!
So shove your attitude up your bit bucket, Sonny and don't speak about something of which you have no knowledge.
When the Fearless Leader of 20% of the world's population says "Shit" they squat in unison and ask, "What color". As it is, nearly every computer component comes from China now except hard drives. At least I can still get quality mobo from Taiwan. The low cost ones from China suck like a leaky pump at a sewage lift station.
BTW, Linux already had Chinese language support using CLE extensions. AFAIK, Red Flag just makes the whole bundle Chinese language aware from the git-go. I used Mandrake because at one time it had Chinese language support right out of the box. And for those who don't know, Chinese is the written language that is nearly the same across all the spoken dialects. You don't write Mandarin (Contonese, Fuchinwah, etc for hundreds of dialects), you speak it and write using Chinese.
Glad I could help put things into perspective for you. Still the point is: who gives a flaming rat's ass about another piece of crap software from Bill and his Band of Incompetents.
Just more microsnot crap I'll do without. In short - who cares? Only mindless M$ droids that let Bill the Bandit do their thinking for them. There are already good, stable, alternative embedded tools for phones and none have the security flaws that using microsnot will bring.
I've re-read Cities in Flight at least three or four times and see this spintronics stuff would make the spindizzy engine work. All we need now is a way to break New York City free from it's base of bed rock, and send it on it's way. Then Washington, D.C. whilst Congress is in session, and I see a Win-Win situation here. Hell, let's just spin off the whole Northeast corridor from The Beltway to Boston and be done with it.
This should be a warning to all the opologists who claim Communism is going out of power in China. Right. Like all their hiding from human rights abuse and central controlled economy, they will find a way to explain away this latest censorship and abuse.
The Chinese Communist Party is still very much in charge and just as paranoid about change and free thinking as when Mao took over while killing 11 million of his disenting countrymen. The SARS incident just points this out as clear as ever.
Remember the Red Army doesn't guard the borders to keep poeple out who are trying to enjoy the fruits of Communism.
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The Linux install disks are up on the internal LAN for IBM use only and there is even a LAN install process that includes disk partitioning. The first wave are techs that will do their own install but support is offered through the Help Desk.If you don't have access then you can't see for yourself. Sorry. The Leaked Linux Memo is well documented, even on /. IBM will be issuing new machines to IBMers with Linux installed on them in the very near future.
We're already moving all of our internal desktop users to Linux over the next two years. There will still be dual boot for those that need it but most corporate desktop users not needing another operatng system will run pure Linux for the daily chores of email and document exchange. All my product support work is done in Java, PERL, and scripting so I can be 100% Linux for all my activities now. The default window manager will be Gnome but you can use others as your taste dictates. Most interprise applications have already been ported and the rest will be. The elephant is not only dancing but leading the parade.
It ain't no rumor, folks. And all but one or two corporate desktop applications have already been, or are being ported to Linux native right now, along with best of breed 3rd party apps creates a completely functioning desktop invironment that kicks the assbone royally. The goal is to migrate to 100% Linux or dual boot with M$ by sometime in 2005. 325,000+/- desktops on Linux and IBM customers following our lead. Hehehe. I've seen the desktop in action and The Future(tm) is here and the desktop IS Linux. Get used to it Microsofties.
When? I must have been sleeping the day M$ dropped their prices. And Good? I just lost another two days of productivity having to get my company laptop re-imaged because Internet Exploder got corrupted while running a non-M$ JVM for an app. And because that piece of crap is part of the OS, I had get a fresh install and am still rebuilding the thing back to where I can support my customers. In the last year I've lost a total of a couple of weeks or more productivity dealing with M$ specific problems. Plus I run about two hours a month doing security scans and adding mandatory patches. At the very high, 3 figure hourly rate I am billed out at, that is not cheaper by any means. And the initial cost is too damn high in the first place.
I will be so glad when we switch to the Linux desktop and StarOffice or OOo so we can be free from Bill The Bandit and lost time like this. Most of my division's stuff runs on Java and WebSphere anyway so the switch will be easy for us.
Now we can outsource manure production along with the code being prodced there. Of course we may need better labeling laws to be able to tell the difference.
While the leftist media tries to make everyone believe that China is post-Communist because of a little economic freedom, this story just proves they are still just as repressive as ever. China has again and still, been ranked as not free by Freedom House. While Taiwan has been ranked as the second most free country in Asia along with South Korea and just behind Japan. It is obvious that Taiwan should be supported by the rest of the free peoples of the world and the UN, instead of kowtowing to the Communists just because of their large markets and massive armies.
I haven't been to a movie on a flat IMAX screen but the local domed system sucks big time. I took my kids to see Star Wars and everything that was supposed to have a straight line was warped and twisted. Light sabers that are bent and twisted buildings are not worth the price of admission. If the film was modified to be shown on a dome it might be different - but until then save your money.
Me too. I've already made the move so that next year when my registration date is up I'll switch over to my hosting company's domain registration service. Versign lied to me last renewal period about why I had to re-up with them. So screw Verisign. And screw SCO while I'm venting. Gomez
But in a guy sort of way.... and "The National Do Not Call List" sounds like a great name for a Rock & Roll Band.
MIT still Rules. I'd like to have an SUV sized one please to replace the aging swamp buggy here in the Everglades. Make the walking pads gator proof and the cabin skeeter proof. I'd like one in Rustoleum Primer and with a gun rack in the back of the cabin,
Itty Bitty Machines - but I guess I walked into that one! I wouldn't dare mention it if I did work for S(atan's)C(omputer)O(rganization).
I now work for a pretty large and famous computer company known by it's three letter acronym with an active list of a couple thousand known hams. Hams are using (and programming and building) computer interfaces for all sorts of digital modes. We don't wait for you programmers to build it for us. Most of the times it's the other way around. And we're much better programmers, engineers, and technicians than you are because we are in a technical hobby that gives us ways to expand both endeavors - for fun!
So shove your attitude up your bit bucket, Sonny and don't speak about something of which you have no knowledge.
When the Fearless Leader of 20% of the world's population says "Shit" they squat in unison and ask, "What color". As it is, nearly every computer component comes from China now except hard drives. At least I can still get quality mobo from Taiwan. The low cost ones from China suck like a leaky pump at a sewage lift station. BTW, Linux already had Chinese language support using CLE extensions. AFAIK, Red Flag just makes the whole bundle Chinese language aware from the git-go. I used Mandrake because at one time it had Chinese language support right out of the box. And for those who don't know, Chinese is the written language that is nearly the same across all the spoken dialects. You don't write Mandarin (Contonese, Fuchinwah, etc for hundreds of dialects), you speak it and write using Chinese.
Glad I could help put things into perspective for you. Still the point is: who gives a flaming rat's ass about another piece of crap software from Bill and his Band of Incompetents.
Just more microsnot crap I'll do without. In short - who cares? Only mindless M$ droids that let Bill the Bandit do their thinking for them. There are already good, stable, alternative embedded tools for phones and none have the security flaws that using microsnot will bring.
Mod this up to at least a 3 - it's FUNNY! Where's that sense of humor on a Sunday morn?
I've re-read Cities in Flight at least three or four times and see this spintronics stuff would make the spindizzy engine work. All we need now is a way to break New York City free from it's base of bed rock, and send it on it's way. Then Washington, D.C. whilst Congress is in session, and I see a Win-Win situation here. Hell, let's just spin off the whole Northeast corridor from The Beltway to Boston and be done with it.
Having more time than brain cells, I can now complete my Klingon Elvish dictionary using the proper fonts.
This should be a warning to all the opologists who claim Communism is going out of power in China. Right. Like all their hiding from human rights abuse and central controlled economy, they will find a way to explain away this latest censorship and abuse. The Chinese Communist Party is still very much in charge and just as paranoid about change and free thinking as when Mao took over while killing 11 million of his disenting countrymen. The SARS incident just points this out as clear as ever. Remember the Red Army doesn't guard the borders to keep poeple out who are trying to enjoy the fruits of Communism.