One example is Open Source Shakespeare, which takes all of Shakespeare's texts, indexes them, presents them in an attractive manner, creates a concordance, provides a full-text search engine, organizes the lines by character, etc.
Great site! It's a joy to browse, with no wasted time trying to figure out the navigation. Can you cite any similar ones? Thanks for the link!
What free software needs is a new, standard, OS that is designed for the desktop, won't have its driver APIs change all the time...
Just how often and radically do you think the Linux driver (i.e., module) API's change (vis-a-vis, say, Windoze)? I thought so.
...won't use XWindows...
Um, could we have a little more detail on what's so bad about X, and what wondermous replacement you have to offer? By the way, the replacement must offer at least the same level of stability, flexibility, built-in network functionality, and...oh, yeah, the same level of backward compatibility, so that programs written more than 2 months ago will still run without even recompiling (much less needing massive API changes). Corporate users in particular are really fond of that last item.
...and won't year after year run like a dog on anything but new hardware with desktop uses.
Gee, that's funny...I run a Linux desktop on a few pretty old machines (the oldest sports a 133MHz PII), and it's still pretty snappy on all of them.
...an example of how not everything you read on the internet is true. The text quoted above is a lie copyright can not be used to protect yourself from being quoted.
Wrong. You need to read up on the doctrine of "fair use" with respect to copyright.
While quoting the 3 short paragraphs I referenced should probably meet any reasonable criterion of fair use, I thought I'd point up the lameness of InfoWorld's policy statement (since by the time one of their droids got around to granting permission, this online discussion would be old news and of no interest to anyone) by not quoting them.
You might have made your point more elegantly by quoting the 3 paragraphs yourself!:-)
The only good thing I can see about this is that we see one more major
commercial player putting resources behind Linux. This may help convince
the PHB faction (and perhaps some of the clueless investor community) that
nobody real is taking SCO's FUD campaign very seriously. This could make
life easier for clueful Sysadmins trying to develop Linux deployment plans.
I really hope Novell do good things with their new property, though their history
is agin' 'em. In fairness, I believe that most of their really dumb moves
were made under the reign of Ray Noorda. (I hear he's gone to some other company
now that continues propagating stupidity.)
USL/SysV Unix - The grand-daddy of the major commercial unices
is turned into a lackluster thing called UnixWare that nobody is much
interested in. Eventually Novell notice the moribundity of the "true" SysV and
decide to sell it to some 3rd rate player. This has not been widely regarded as
a cause for joy.
QuattroPro/Paradox, etc. - Novell think it would be cool to
enter the office suite market. This is greeted by tumultuous indifference.
Unable to figure out what to do with it, they decide to sell it, along with...
WordPerfect - Novell buy what was unquestionably the leader
of the word processing pack (when Word was a distant #3); it is allowed to
languish. They do confer on WP the distinction of being the only major word
processing program not to come out with a Win95 version till it no longer
matters. Sensing that they've held onto it long enough to insure its slide into
oblivion, they decide to sell it, along with the rest of their office products.
(Rumor has it that the deal also involved the sale of an undisclosed amount
of management brain damage to the purchaser, but this has not been confirmed.)
There might be an interesting bit of insight (or hindsight) into Novell's
strategy in
this InfoWorld article (12 Sep 2003). Their copyright policy
precludes quoting without getting permission (which no one here would do, of
course!), but I'm referring to the last 3 paragraphs in the article, beginning
with the quote from Laura DiDio. Guess we shoulda' seen it coming.
Enough with the gloom 'n doom prognostications about the death of Linux!
Linus, et. al., don't work for SuSE (or RedHat), and Linux development isn't
going to die because a handful of corporations are getting into merger &
acquisition mode. These guys are just trying to figure out how to make money
from a phenomenon they don't directly control. That's a new way of thinking,
and basically a Good Thing.
And please, God, don't let some corporate behemoth buy up and bastardize Slackware!
As of about 8:00 PM EST the wildcard A records pointing to 64.94.110.11 appear to be gone. I'm now getting normal NXDOMAIN responses to queries for nonexistent names.
As for the Web site, I suppose they must have taken that down, too. If you try explicitly going to http://64.94.110.11 (sitefinder-idn.verisign.com) you get a keen little page that says
We didn't find: "64.94.110.11"
There is no Web site at this address.
and I'm sure VeriSign wouldn't fib about a thing like that....
If Microsoft wants to save their market share, they should start looking into a Unix-type OS...buy someone out (um, SCO maybe - or maybe I'm psychic?).
Hey, great idea! I guess the time might be right to introduce Zenix XP!
Well, yesterday evening there we over 16,000. When I glanced at the site this morning there were only about half that. I wonder how long it'll take the number to go negative.
I just fired off an email to the author in case he's not aware.
Yes, almost all of it is. Since around 18 August, better than 99% of the ping packets I've looked at have the characteristic Welchia payload (56 bytes of 0xaa)...and I've looked at a lot of them!
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One example is Open Source Shakespeare, which takes all of Shakespeare's texts, indexes them, presents them in an attractive manner, creates a concordance, provides a full-text search engine, organizes the lines by character, etc.
Great site! It's a joy to browse, with no wasted time trying to figure out the navigation. Can you cite any similar ones? Thanks for the link!
What free software needs is a new, standard, OS that is designed for the desktop, won't have its driver APIs change all the time...
Just how often and radically do you think the Linux driver (i.e., module) API's change (vis-a-vis, say, Windoze)? I thought so.
Um, could we have a little more detail on what's so bad about X, and what wondermous replacement you have to offer? By the way, the replacement must offer at least the same level of stability, flexibility, built-in network functionality, and...oh, yeah, the same level of backward compatibility, so that programs written more than 2 months ago will still run without even recompiling (much less needing massive API changes). Corporate users in particular are really fond of that last item.
Gee, that's funny...I run a Linux desktop on a few pretty old machines (the oldest sports a 133MHz PII), and it's still pretty snappy on all of them.
Wrong. You need to read up on the doctrine of "fair use" with respect to copyright.
While quoting the 3 short paragraphs I referenced should probably meet any reasonable criterion of fair use, I thought I'd point up the lameness of InfoWorld's policy statement (since by the time one of their droids got around to granting permission, this online discussion would be old news and of no interest to anyone) by not quoting them.
You might have made your point more elegantly by quoting the 3 paragraphs yourself!The only good thing I can see about this is that we see one more major commercial player putting resources behind Linux. This may help convince the PHB faction (and perhaps some of the clueless investor community) that nobody real is taking SCO's FUD campaign very seriously. This could make life easier for clueful Sysadmins trying to develop Linux deployment plans.
I really hope Novell do good things with their new property, though their history is agin' 'em. In fairness, I believe that most of their really dumb moves were made under the reign of Ray Noorda. (I hear he's gone to some other company now that continues propagating stupidity.)
There might be an interesting bit of insight (or hindsight) into Novell's strategy in this InfoWorld article (12 Sep 2003). Their copyright policy precludes quoting without getting permission (which no one here would do, of course!), but I'm referring to the last 3 paragraphs in the article, beginning with the quote from Laura DiDio. Guess we shoulda' seen it coming.
Enough with the gloom 'n doom prognostications about the death of Linux! Linus, et. al., don't work for SuSE (or RedHat), and Linux development isn't going to die because a handful of corporations are getting into merger & acquisition mode. These guys are just trying to figure out how to make money from a phenomenon they don't directly control. That's a new way of thinking, and basically a Good Thing.
And please, God, don't let some corporate behemoth buy up and bastardize Slackware!
That is the Web site. Sitefinder is still there...
No...really? ;-)
As of about 8:00 PM EST the wildcard A records pointing to 64.94.110.11 appear to be gone. I'm now getting normal NXDOMAIN responses to queries for nonexistent names.
As for the Web site, I suppose they must have taken that down, too. If you try explicitly going to http://64.94.110.11 (sitefinder-idn.verisign.com) you get a keen little page that says
We didn't find: "64.94.110.11"
There is no Web site at this address.
and I'm sure VeriSign wouldn't fib about a thing like that....
If Microsoft wants to save their market share, they should start looking into a Unix-type OS...buy someone out (um, SCO maybe - or maybe I'm psychic?).
Hey, great idea! I guess the time might be right to introduce Zenix XP!
Well, yesterday evening there we over 16,000. When I glanced at the site this morning there were only about half that. I wonder how long it'll take the number to go negative.
I just fired off an email to the author in case he's not aware.
Yes, almost all of it is. Since around 18 August, better than 99% of the ping packets I've looked at have the characteristic Welchia payload (56 bytes of 0xaa)...and I've looked at a lot of them!