I can only partially agree: supersonic transport damages the ozone layer very substantially! And the Concorde, being the massive object that it is, is very harmful. Not to speak that its fuel efficiency is low - the lowest of all forms of passenger transportation - contributing disproportionately to the emission of CO2.
Maybe this is just a tangent to your point, but I like to point it out because it's one of my priorities.
The behaviour of spammers seems more and more consistently malicious. They are not only becoming bolder, they are becoming downright fucking mean.
Sometimes I think just a fine wouldn't be enough punishemnt, not even jail, but to have somebody beat the crap out of these individuals every day, beat them senseless on a regular basis for educative purposes. And sometimes I don't think of this just as a joke.
I have one better: switching between Mozilla windows (not other app windows) using ctrl+tab. Netscape 3.x and 4.x had this, and it makes browsing a much more enjoyable experience, expecially when you are keeping tabs on various contents at the same time - which is what ~100% of Internet users do, nowadays.
Interestingly, none of the modern browsers have this feature anymore: not Mozilla, not Netscape 6.x or 7.x and neither does Explorer.
The Concorde is not being retired by american companies. Actually, there are rumors of an american company that wants to buy one of the Concordes from BA, and continute using it.
most prized must surely include the cross of the crucifixion itself
A little tidbit: historians seem to agree that this "cross" was, in fact, more like a letter "T", so it was a long vertical and a shorter, horizontal bar tacked on top of it.
NDS can kick Active Directory's ass and take it's lunch money any day of the week, since it's a much more mature product.
Not only much more mature, but much more powerful, too. In fact, a 4-billion object NDS has been implemented years ago! In the meantime it became even more scalable.
Not to mention that NDS has been ported to several different platforms - including WindowsNT and 2K, too.
Obviously Solaris v10 will be actually be Sun rebadged version of Linux!
Obviously? If someone told me something like this, I'd say he/she must be out of his/her mind, or very high on Lysergic Acid Diethylamide.
But I guess you aren't just someone on Slashdot posting the first ludicrious idea that comes to your mind but rahter an insightful and pedantic person of information, so I would encourage you to come forth with the details of Sun's decision to dump Solaris and embrace Linux.
That also might be correct. Or maybe they could but it wouldn't be called Linux... I just feel that at this time we really can't say one way or another. As IANAL and not many that AAL have spoken around here. Actually; sorry, are you a lawyer? Maybe I was just jumping to conclusions.
You are assuming I am a SCO insider. I definitely am not.
Besides, the stock market is fickle and it's very difficult to guess which fad is going to move a stock forward. This kind of investing is very risky, and I avoid that.
I only presented this graph to show that it can be argued both ways. If you weren't an indiser, you definitely would have benefitted, had you bought SCO shares when they were about a dollar apiece.
The linux kernel has VFS (Virtual Filesystem Switch) which acts as an abstraction layer allowing you to mount and use many different file systems in the same way.
NetWare had that since forewer. That's how you presented a native filesystem to Mac, DOS, Unix and later Win95 users on the network. You just had to install the namespace module for the related filesystem.
Look at OpenBSD. It has encrypted swap space
Is that in any way different from software that encrypts your whole HD (including the swap file) like PointSec or Safeguard?
Before apache you couldn't have more than one website per box
This was possible with IIS in 1997. Was this feature available in Apache back then?
See, I always thought that the reason the army never deployed a nuclear airborne base, like a giant helicopter, is that a viable nuclear reactor would be too large. But now that Lokheed.Marti is going to develop a spaceship with a rather small and yet functional nuclear reactor, I start to wonder: is the time of flying mother-ships, carrier helicopters or even true flying gunship monsters, coming?
Well, if anyone is ever going to build such a weapon, it's going to be the US. Hate it or like it (or love it), it's still the only country that can undertake giant projects.
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I can only partially agree: supersonic transport damages the ozone layer very substantially! And the Concorde, being the massive object that it is, is very harmful. Not to speak that its fuel efficiency is low - the lowest of all forms of passenger transportation - contributing disproportionately to the emission of CO2.
Maybe this is just a tangent to your point, but I like to point it out because it's one of my priorities.
The behaviour of spammers seems more and more consistently malicious. They are not only becoming bolder, they are becoming downright fucking mean.
Sometimes I think just a fine wouldn't be enough punishemnt, not even jail, but to have somebody beat the crap out of these individuals every day, beat them senseless on a regular basis for educative purposes. And sometimes I don't think of this just as a joke.
How should I feel? When I was a kid, I had 256 shades of amber - coz the amber monitor was all I culd afford.
Does that make me very old, or just semi-old but poor?
I have one better: switching between Mozilla windows (not other app windows) using ctrl+tab. Netscape 3.x and 4.x had this, and it makes browsing a much more enjoyable experience, expecially when you are keeping tabs on various contents at the same time - which is what ~100% of Internet users do, nowadays.
Interestingly, none of the modern browsers have this feature anymore: not Mozilla, not Netscape 6.x or 7.x and neither does Explorer.
The Concorde is not being retired by american companies. Actually, there are rumors of an american company that wants to buy one of the Concordes from BA, and continute using it.
most prized must surely include the cross of the crucifixion itself
A little tidbit: historians seem to agree that this "cross" was, in fact, more like a letter "T", so it was a long vertical and a shorter, horizontal bar tacked on top of it.
Stop it already :o) I'm laffing too hard, waking up the neighbors
Hit the nail on the head.
I alwayst thought that the "penguinista" designation some Linux users like to float around, is destructive in the very same way.
NDS can kick Active Directory's ass and take it's lunch money any day of the week, since it's a much more mature product.
Not only much more mature, but much more powerful, too. In fact, a 4-billion object NDS has been implemented years ago! In the meantime it became even more scalable.
Not to mention that NDS has been ported to several different platforms - including WindowsNT and 2K, too.
Obviously Solaris v10 will be actually be Sun rebadged version of Linux!
Obviously? If someone told me something like this, I'd say he/she must be out of his/her mind, or very high on Lysergic Acid Diethylamide.
But I guess you aren't just someone on Slashdot posting the first ludicrious idea that comes to your mind but rahter an insightful and pedantic person of information, so I would encourage you to come forth with the details of Sun's decision to dump Solaris and embrace Linux.
That also might be correct. Or maybe they could but it wouldn't be called Linux...
I just feel that at this time we really can't say one way or another. As IANAL and not many that AAL have spoken around here. Actually; sorry, are you a lawyer? Maybe I was just jumping to conclusions.
Must be the sideways thing - difficult to consider it a feature, no matter how you try :o]
What I'd like to know is, even if SCO does win the lawsuit, can Sun continue to distribute Linux?
Excellent question. I would say that they, in fact, might. But not now, during the run-up to the judicial proceedings.
In the end, Sun might end up being one of the few companies that can distribute Linux in it's present form.
I am glad I did, actually, read the comments on this story. As you correctly said, usually they are all totally rendundant.
And even though your post was just a list of questions, it's probably one of the most relevant ones in this thread.
Yes, the very yellowish-off-white plastic and the 8-bit tech inside, that's yummy in a weird, geeky yet nostalgic way.
I had a look at the link in your sig. Interesting story. Are you into chemistry? It used to be my preferite subject when I was a kid.
Yeah, and it's a collector's item, now. The world's largest computer museum needs one piece, too.
I quite liked the cube, actually. More than this design, anyway :-)
For heaven's sake, how lame can you get? Or those that modded your millionth commercial up?
On the other hand, this is pretty funny (in addition to pathetic): you get free publicity AND karma.
Do you mean "There is no such thing as bad publicity"? :-] I thought that applied to showbiz rather than IT.
Anyway, interesting that Slashdot didn't pick up on this story at all. Not even a fart, nothing.
has anyone else seen this?
You are assuming I am a SCO insider. I definitely am not.
Besides, the stock market is fickle and it's very difficult to guess which fad is going to move a stock forward. This kind of investing is very risky, and I avoid that.
I only presented this graph to show that it can be argued both ways. If you weren't an indiser, you definitely would have benefitted, had you bought SCO shares when they were about a dollar apiece.
Just a few points and questions:
The linux kernel has VFS (Virtual Filesystem Switch) which acts as an abstraction layer allowing you to mount and use many different file systems in the same way.
NetWare had that since forewer. That's how you presented a native filesystem to Mac, DOS, Unix and later Win95 users on the network. You just had to install the namespace module for the related filesystem.
Look at OpenBSD. It has encrypted swap space
Is that in any way different from software that encrypts your whole HD (including the swap file) like PointSec or Safeguard?
Before apache you couldn't have more than one website per box
This was possible with IIS in 1997. Was this feature available in Apache back then?
Say what you want, but investing in SCO securities in February would have made me a wealthy man.
Care to elaborate? I am kinda interested in installing it.
See, I always thought that the reason the army never deployed a nuclear airborne base, like a giant helicopter, is that a viable nuclear reactor would be too large. But now that Lokheed.Marti is going to develop a spaceship with a rather small and yet functional nuclear reactor, I start to wonder: is the time of flying mother-ships, carrier helicopters or even true flying gunship monsters, coming?
Well, if anyone is ever going to build such a weapon, it's going to be the US. Hate it or like it (or love it), it's still the only country that can undertake giant projects.