It seems that for the past 40 years it was estimated that we had only 10-15 years more oil left. Problem is that oil is being discovered in places no one ever thought of looking before. I wouldn't be surprised if 30 years from now we still had 10-15 years of oil left.
OTOH, with global warming, political unrest, and increasing energy demands finding another energy source is a very good idea. Hydrogen may not prove to be a good mobile energy source for small power plants (cars), but it will work out fine for electric power plants, jumbo jets, and large ships. Hydrogen has a better power density than coal (when used as a fuel for steam engines), and coal served well for ships and trains. Hydrogen will serve well here too. Autos will go electric, we are getting close to the perfect battery. Hydrogen will power the electric power grids. It can work.
The same site lists several 8 port switches for gigibit copper. Those with ONE 1000mhz port and 8 10/100 are low cost ($150) but those with 8 1000mhz ports are a bit more (about $600). Add the cost of the switch to your cards and it's probably not cost effective for the HO yet. I'm happy with my 100base T network, my 8 port switching hub was less than $40. I AM using CAT 5E so I can upgrade to 1000baseT someday, just not today!
Oh they ARE good at throwing the bull, and buying offical benchmarks from others that make them look good and the others look bad. (Mindspring?)
But their software has improved over the years. Trouble is that they try to move in all directions at once and when they add improvments in one area, they manage to screw up in others. I'd like to see what breaks when they finally do improve security. Probably add self denial of service attacks.
First of all history shows us that once MS sets a goal for itself, it WILL delivery (maybe not in the time frame they first promise, but close). The company learns from it's mistakes and catches up with the rest of the world REAL fast. I can't belive that they have ignored security for so long, but maybe their ego just wouldn't accept the fact that their software was so bad with security.
While we have brainwashed ourselves into beliving that the OSS movement is the best way to produce secure software, this isn't always the case. If you have a good software development and review process in place (and a large enough peer review group) a closed source shop can do a good job.
OSS's advantage is that once the software is out in the real world problems can be spotted and fixed quickly, IF there are enough interrested programer-users looking at the code. The problem is that all to many programer-users are more interrested in adding features than fixing security holes.
In Microsoft's case, once they release something and a problem surfaces, they have to find the fix themselves, test it, review it, and finally package it as a service pak some six months after the problem first surfaces. If they can streamline generating fixes for bad security leak problems in their products, maybe they will make some real belivers in their intent. They better realize they WON'T get it right the first time and need to plan on getting patches out to the field FAST when a hole opens up. We'll see.........
If it isn't a totally new package maybe, or at least you could keep the potato version, download the old version from the potato archive, grab an.RPM package and use alien, or grab the source and build it yourself.
I see that acroread and galeon didn't make it. RATS, especially for galeon. I can still download a.tgz from adobe for acroread I suppose, but building galeon from source is going to be a RPITA and I doubt that any of the prebuilt packages are going to work. I hope Galeon makes it in somehow. I've heard nothing but good things about this browser and I'd like to try it. OTOH maybe the latest version of mozilla is improved. I've actually had mozilla render web pages that have croked netscape. It's biggest problem now is that it is too damm slow compared to netscape.
I've built a few computers over the years and have used motherboards from several companies. I've been lucky to not have gotten a DOA board so far. I've used boards made by AZZA (which was not in his review) and have been happy with them. AZZA's website has had good support for current and discontinued products. In fact, they published an ap note on how to use the K6-266 and K6-300 cpu's on an older board that would only work with speeds up to 233. The mod involved changing out a surface mount resistor in the power supply and lifting a leg off a surface mount IC (not for the faint hearted or far sighted!). I was able to make the change, and it worked fine!
I have switched to Tyan boards for my last two computers since they had the mix of features I wanted. They were the last guys making a slot-1 AT style mb with ISA slots. A good MB which is still in use here. My current machine uses their trinity series which supports flip chip and slot 1 intel processors. It has a PIII-866 (maybe if I ever find a 1GHZ PIII on sale cheap somewhere I'll upgrade, but the small increase in speed simply isn't worth very much vs the price of the cpu). I have 768mb of dram (maxed out) and this board is VERY stable, even running win-98, though it is mostly a Linux box that can dual boot. The single isa slot has a hacked up old style printer card that will be used to drive a home brew prom burner, or the DDT-52 emulator (byte). I'm sorry he gave Tyan a lower position than the others, but I guess he is more hacker than system guru. Tyan desktop MB's are not too expensive and they are discounted by many mail order houses. You do pay dearly for their servers boards, but you don't want a shity MB in a server! I'd gladly pay the price for a machine that was keeping my business up!
ALL the movie studios have been making film versions of novels and short stories. Either they bought the rights to the story (as Disney did with Mary Popins and others), or they took a work that was now in the public domain. Nothing wrong here.
Question: Did Rodenberry have to pay for the rights to the story line of "The Enemy Below" for the STOS episode "Balance of Terror"?. How about the producers of the Movie "Outland", did they have to buy the rights to the story line of "High Noon"?
I've told my wife that if it's up to me it will be a cold day in hell before we take the kids back to Disney World again.
BTW if this goes through wait till the GOVERNMENT finds out that IT'S computers have been compromised. Maybe government contracts will specify that their computers DON'T get the special hardware!
The business world will never abandon Windows because they won't change the way they use computers. The cost of the computers used in business is viewed as an entire system, and software costs with support contracts are already a huge part of the total system cost. Even if the hardware got much cheaper it wouldn't budge the bottom line enough to make a difference.
The home computer market might be affected by this, but anyone who uses a computer at work will probably still want the same OS and software at home. MS already sells different levels of software between their home and enterprise users so they are aware of the price sensitivity.
If school boards can look beyond MS's bullshit fud they might consider open source to save money, but the reality is that they MUST teach what is used in the business world with real world hardware and software.
Walmart's experiment in selling computers without an OS will probably fail, though I hope they can make this program work for customers who know what they are buying.
Some of the larger record stores have gone back to the old tradition of letting customers audition recordings before buying! I've seen automated stations that will play selected cuts from cd's that they are trying to push, as well as a few stores that let you try ANY disk out at a station they set up in the back (diskman with headphones).
Not a bad idea at all! Of course you have to get off your butt and go down to the record store in the first place.......
If star office version 6 will be dual licensed (if they want to charge for it, they might NOT licence ver 6 under the gpl, they have the right to do this), then yes anyone can buy it and post the binaries and source on the net. Remember under the GPL sun can charge for it, but MUST supply the source.
Alan Cox DID write a column in Linux Magazine on kernel hacking. He no longer is doing it, but I think it appeared in at least the first year of the magazine. http://www.linuxmag.com or www.linux-mag.com.
I think my local power company (FPL) is using a two way version of this for their ON CALL system. This lets them brown out selected appliances in your house (such as your water heater or Air Conditioner) for brief periods during high power demand. You tell them which appliances you will let them control and they install a special box between them and the power line. They only brown 'em out for brief periods (I forget what the max power cycling periods are). For this you get a lower rate on your power bill. Makes sense for some people.
MS has for the past few years automaticly been sending notices via the internet when a new version of IE is available. Yup, every time you start IE it 'phones home' to see if an update is available. If you decline it, it seems to put a cookie in your registery to remind you the next time you start the computer. I just ingnore it since I don't know if I WANT IE6 yet. Now they may be doing this with other software. No big deal.
Hey, I thought Divix was really a good idea except it required a special machine and invasion of my privacy (via that phone line connection). A limited use dvd for rental purposes is not a bad idea, if the cost of the thing is the same as actually going into Blockbuster and renting a movie.
I just hope the shelf life of these things is good enough. If the dvd expires before I get to view it I'd be really pissed.
As for garbage, well the dump is already full of all the free AOL cd's I get in the mail every week!
(At least the floppy disks they used to send got re-used).
A DVD player that would not need decryption/encryption is cheaper to make
Except that the studio's wouldn't put out anything that was NOT encrypted. Also expect a MUCH stronger encryption than that used with current DVD's. They won't want a repeat of
DeCSS. What you probably meant was non compressed. That might happen, pehaps a variable compression depth scheme to allow for the best quality.
Oh and I nearly forgot. If a liberal Democrat was in the white house, 911 might not have even happened! GWB was in bed with the Taliban trying to get some oil pipeline though and when he couldn't buy it, he told them that we would come in and take the land from them! (At the request of Enron). So the Bush administration was ignoring threats of Bin Laden while trying to win over the Taliban.
When the 911/Enron investigation is over, we may have TWO impeached presidents in a row.
I'm sure that Greenpeace and other Earth groups would love this, but it ain't going to happen. Nothing that will hurt corporate America will happen and General Motors and Ford will buy enough congressmen to prevent it.
Maybe streets with sensitive targets will be blocked with armed road blocks (like Pennsilvania Avenue).
Not that a GOOD mass transit system would be a bad thing, so long as it's use was voulantary. (NYC is the only place in the US I know of with a GOOD mass transit system, Boston tries hard though.)
Maybe. But maybe it's because so many people, companies and projects have come to rely on Linux and up till now things have been going along pretty smoothly with fixes for bugs comming along quickly after problems were found. Now with patches for bugs falling between the cracks in the floor maybe people are begining to wonder if they shouldn't have left the 'windows open' (pun intended).
Maybe we have all been taking Linus for granted for too long. What me jealous? (pun on AEN intended). NO WAY. I don't want to be Linus.
After reading this email thread I'm beginning to wonder if this world domination revolution is fizziling out. I hope not. So far the ride has been fun.
If the kernel development situation gets any worse (or seems to be getting worse) it will only give MS more fuel to generate fud. Their claims about kernel forking and 'more than one linux, how can you support it' will begin to sound real. The kernel IS already forked with different distros applying different patches (Redhat does NOT use the standard kernel versions from kernel.org, hope they at least label their stuff to make this clear).
Linus better come up with a good answer to all this noise, or Bill Gates and company will!
Hp already spun off their test instrument divison into another company, if they get rid of printers and computers what's left? Why don' they just go chapter 11 and call it a day?
This scenario has played out too many times before. Heathkit stated making computers and was bought by Zenith, Heath/Zenith computer division was sold to Bull, good by Heathkit.
Before that MITS stated making computers, Pertech bought the Altair part of the company, good-by MITS.
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It seems that for the past 40 years it was estimated that we had only 10-15 years more oil left. Problem is that oil is being discovered in places no one ever thought of looking before. I wouldn't be surprised if 30 years from now we still had 10-15 years of oil left.
OTOH, with global warming, political unrest, and increasing energy demands finding another energy source is a very good idea. Hydrogen may not prove to be a good mobile energy source for small power plants (cars), but it will work out fine for electric power plants, jumbo jets, and large ships. Hydrogen has a better power density than coal (when used as a fuel for steam engines), and coal served well for ships and trains. Hydrogen will serve well here too. Autos will go electric, we are getting close to the perfect battery. Hydrogen will power the electric power grids. It can work.
The same site lists several 8 port switches for gigibit copper. Those with ONE 1000mhz port and 8 10/100 are low cost ($150) but those with 8 1000mhz ports are a bit more (about $600). Add the cost of the switch to your cards and it's probably not cost effective for the HO yet. I'm happy with my 100base T network, my 8 port switching hub was less than $40. I AM using CAT 5E so I can upgrade to 1000baseT someday, just not today!
Oh they ARE good at throwing the bull, and buying offical benchmarks from others that make them look good and the others look bad. (Mindspring?)
But their software has improved over the years. Trouble is that they try to move in all directions at once and when they add improvments in one area, they manage to screw up in others. I'd like to see what breaks when they finally do improve security. Probably add self denial of service attacks.
First of all history shows us that once MS sets a goal for itself, it WILL delivery (maybe not in the time frame they first promise, but close). The company learns from it's mistakes and catches up with the rest of the world REAL fast. I can't belive that they have ignored security for so long, but maybe their ego just wouldn't accept the fact that their software was so bad with security.
While we have brainwashed ourselves into beliving that the OSS movement is the best way to produce secure software, this isn't always the case. If you have a good software development and review process in place (and a large enough peer review group) a closed source shop can do a good job.
OSS's advantage is that once the software is out in the real world problems can be spotted and fixed quickly, IF there are enough interrested programer-users looking at the code. The problem is that all to many programer-users are more interrested in adding features than fixing security holes.
In Microsoft's case, once they release something and a problem surfaces, they have to find the fix themselves, test it, review it, and finally package it as a service pak some six months after the problem first surfaces. If they can streamline generating fixes for bad security leak problems in their products, maybe they will make some real belivers in their intent. They better realize they WON'T get it right the first time and need to plan on getting patches out to the field FAST when a hole opens up. We'll see.........
If it isn't a totally new package maybe, or at least you could keep the potato version, download the old version from the potato archive, grab an .RPM package and use alien, or grab the source and build it yourself.
.tgz from adobe for acroread I suppose, but building galeon from source is going to be a RPITA and I doubt that any of the prebuilt packages are going to work. I hope Galeon makes it in somehow. I've heard nothing but good things about this browser and I'd like to try it. OTOH maybe the latest version of mozilla is improved. I've actually had mozilla render web pages that have croked netscape. It's biggest problem now is that it is too damm slow compared to netscape.
I see that acroread and galeon didn't make it. RATS, especially for galeon. I can still download a
I've built a few computers over the years and have used motherboards from several companies. I've been lucky to not have gotten a DOA board so far. I've used boards made by AZZA (which was not in his review) and have been happy with them. AZZA's website has had good support for current and discontinued products. In fact, they published an ap note on how to use the K6-266 and K6-300 cpu's on an older board that would only work with speeds up to 233. The mod involved changing out a surface mount resistor in the power supply and lifting a leg off a surface mount IC (not for the faint hearted or far sighted!). I was able to make the change, and it worked fine!
I have switched to Tyan boards for my last two computers since they had the mix of features I wanted. They were the last guys making a slot-1 AT style mb with ISA slots. A good MB which is still in use here. My current machine uses their trinity series which supports flip chip and slot 1 intel processors. It has a PIII-866 (maybe if I ever find a 1GHZ PIII on sale cheap somewhere I'll upgrade, but the small increase in speed simply isn't worth very much vs the price of the cpu). I have 768mb of dram (maxed out) and this board is VERY stable, even running win-98, though it is mostly a Linux box that can dual boot. The single isa slot has a hacked up old style printer card that will be used to drive a home brew prom burner, or the DDT-52 emulator (byte). I'm sorry he gave Tyan a lower position than the others, but I guess he is more hacker than system guru. Tyan desktop MB's are not too expensive and they are discounted by many mail order houses. You do pay dearly for their servers boards, but you don't want a shity MB in a server! I'd gladly pay the price for a machine that was keeping my business up!
SURE! Give the geeks a try. I have bought stuff from these guys before and they are great!
= 380Z-2
http://www.compgeeks.com
Here is a nice unit they have right now.
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid
ALL the movie studios have been making film versions of novels and short stories. Either they bought the rights to the story (as Disney did with Mary Popins and others), or they took a work that was now in the public domain. Nothing wrong here.
Question: Did Rodenberry have to pay for the rights to the story line of "The Enemy Below" for the STOS episode "Balance of Terror"?. How about the producers of the Movie "Outland", did they have to buy the rights to the story line of "High Noon"?
I've told my wife that if it's up to me it will be a cold day in hell before we take the kids back to Disney World again.
BTW if this goes through wait till the GOVERNMENT finds out that IT'S computers have been compromised. Maybe government contracts will specify that their computers DON'T get the special hardware!
The business world will never abandon Windows because they won't change the way they use computers. The cost of the computers used in business is viewed as an entire system, and software costs with support contracts are already a huge part of the total system cost. Even if the hardware got much cheaper it wouldn't budge the bottom line enough to make a difference.
The home computer market might be affected by this, but anyone who uses a computer at work will probably still want the same OS and software at home. MS already sells different levels of software between their home and enterprise users so they are aware of the price sensitivity.
If school boards can look beyond MS's bullshit fud they might consider open source to save money, but the reality is that they MUST teach what is used in the business world with real world hardware and software.
Walmart's experiment in selling computers without an OS will probably fail, though I hope they can make this program work for customers who know what they are buying.
Some of the larger record stores have gone back to the old tradition of letting customers audition recordings before buying! I've seen automated stations that will play selected cuts from cd's that they are trying to push, as well as a few stores that let you try ANY disk out at a station they set up in the back (diskman with headphones).
Not a bad idea at all! Of course you have to get off your butt and go down to the record store in the first place.......
If star office version 6 will be dual licensed (if they want to charge for it, they might NOT licence ver 6 under the gpl, they have the right to do this), then yes anyone can buy it and post the binaries and source on the net. Remember under the GPL sun can charge for it, but MUST supply the source.
Alan Cox DID write a column in Linux Magazine on kernel hacking. He no longer is doing it, but I think it appeared in at least the first year of the magazine. http://www.linuxmag.com or www.linux-mag.com.
I think my local power company (FPL) is using a two way version of this for their ON CALL system. This lets them brown out selected appliances in your house (such as your water heater or Air Conditioner) for brief periods during high power demand. You tell them which appliances you will let them control and they install a special box between them and the power line. They only brown 'em out for brief periods (I forget what the max power cycling periods are). For this you get a lower rate on your power bill. Makes sense for some people.
MS has for the past few years automaticly been sending notices via the internet when a new version of IE is available. Yup, every time you start IE it 'phones home' to see if an update is available. If you decline it, it seems to put a cookie in your registery to remind you the next time you start the computer. I just ingnore it since I don't know if I WANT IE6 yet. Now they may be doing this with other software. No big deal.
Hey, I thought Divix was really a good idea except it required a special machine and invasion of my privacy (via that phone line connection). A limited use dvd for rental purposes is not a bad idea, if the cost of the thing is the same as actually going into Blockbuster and renting a movie.
I just hope the shelf life of these things is good enough. If the dvd expires before I get to view it I'd be really pissed.
As for garbage, well the dump is already full of all the free AOL cd's I get in the mail every week!
(At least the floppy disks they used to send got re-used).
No you can't, unless you have a Macrovision remover.
(I guess you do).
Anyway, if I read it correctly, you can play it as many times as you want (within a 24-48 hour period).
All we need is to outsource the shuttle. With a profit motive safety takes a back seat. Result, another Chananger disaster.
A DVD player that would not need decryption/encryption is cheaper to make
Except that the studio's wouldn't put out anything that was NOT encrypted. Also expect a MUCH stronger encryption than that used with current DVD's. They won't want a repeat of
DeCSS. What you probably meant was non compressed. That might happen, pehaps a variable compression depth scheme to allow for the best quality.
Oh and I nearly forgot. If a liberal Democrat was in the white house, 911 might not have even happened! GWB was in bed with the Taliban trying to get some oil pipeline though and when he couldn't buy it, he told them that we would come in and take the land from them! (At the request of Enron). So the Bush administration was ignoring threats of Bin Laden while trying to win over the Taliban.
When the 911/Enron investigation is over, we may have TWO impeached presidents in a row.
I'm sure that Greenpeace and other Earth groups would love this, but it ain't going to happen. Nothing that will hurt corporate America will happen and General Motors and Ford will buy enough congressmen to prevent it.
Maybe streets with sensitive targets will be blocked with armed road blocks (like Pennsilvania Avenue).
Not that a GOOD mass transit system would be a bad thing, so long as it's use was voulantary. (NYC is the only place in the US I know of with a GOOD mass transit system, Boston tries hard though.)
Then again he might have to. Last I heard Transmeta was heading for the crapper.
Maybe. But maybe it's because so many people, companies and projects have come to rely on Linux and up till now things have been going along pretty smoothly with fixes for bugs comming along quickly after problems were found. Now with patches for bugs falling between the cracks in the floor maybe people are begining to wonder if they shouldn't have left the 'windows open' (pun intended).
Maybe we have all been taking Linus for granted for too long. What me jealous? (pun on AEN intended). NO WAY. I don't want to be Linus.
After reading this email thread I'm beginning to wonder if this world domination revolution is fizziling out. I hope not. So far the ride has been fun.
If the kernel development situation gets any worse (or seems to be getting worse) it will only give MS more fuel to generate fud. Their claims about kernel forking and 'more than one linux, how can you support it' will begin to sound real. The kernel IS already forked with different distros applying different patches (Redhat does NOT use the standard kernel versions from kernel.org, hope they at least label their stuff to make this clear).
Linus better come up with a good answer to all this noise, or Bill Gates and company will!
Hp already spun off their test instrument divison into another company, if they get rid of printers and computers what's left? Why don' they just go chapter 11 and call it a day?
This scenario has played out too many times before. Heathkit stated making computers and was bought by Zenith, Heath/Zenith computer division was sold to Bull, good by Heathkit.
Before that MITS stated making computers, Pertech bought the Altair part of the company, good-by MITS.