For Priority Mobile Health, an emergency service provider, Red Hat Linux turned out to be hurricane proof. During Hurricane Georges, Mobile Health's NT server crashed and the Red Hat Linux server took up the slack. Before long, the Red Hat server was also carrying local government offices, giving them a Web site to post vital weather information, warnings and road closings that received thousands of hits during the hurricane. Not bad for a Pentium 133 on Red Hat Linux.
See, Red Hat should have nothing to fear. Good luck guys, and hope all turns out for the best!
Ah... I can just see it now. Imagine, if we can someone revive or reactivate dead brain cells, what kind of world would we have?
- Farrah Fawcett would finally get that Nobel Prize for her work on superstring theory that clearly shows the interrelations between the weak force and this year's hemlines.
- AOL becomes the Internet center for reasonable discussion and carefully crafted thought.
- Oprah's latest book club selection: "The Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius".
- Network executives realize their impact on civilization, build an advanced spacecraft, and then hurl themselves into the sun. "Crusade" is renewed for four and half more seasons.
- Cheech & Chong for President!
Let's hope they actually get this work in humans. I recommend that they begin testing immediately. They could begin testing on lawyers - no one will bother to stop them, although one never knows if the data collected from them will be applicable to humans...:)
No lawyers were harmed in this post. I'll try harder next time.
I loved the Amiga back in the old days. I remember walking into an Amiga dealership in Des Moines (back in the Commodore days... another system that I've a soft spot for) and seeing the "Walker demo". I'd never seen anything like it, it really was years ahead of anyone else.
Unfortunately, the times have changed. Amiga is never going to take the marketshare of SGI in the high-end graphic workstation field. They're not going to beat out eMachines or any of the other cheap Internet computer manufacturers. They've fallen behind, and in a world that works on Internet time, that's not something anything can easily recover from.
Now, if they actually did build a Transmeta-powered Linux system with support for full-motion video editing, audio, 3D graphics, and support for Windoze software at an affordable price, they might actually be able to survive. However, I wouldn't hold your breath for this to happen. Amiga is dead... it has been on life support for a long time, and perhaps now someone has mercifully pulled the plug. Let's just remember that they got there first, and make sure that we also never forget why Amiga is dead as a doornail and SGI is thriving.
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Here's a neat clip from RedHat's site:
Priority Mobile Health
Michael Boatright, CEO
For Priority Mobile Health, an emergency service provider, Red Hat Linux turned out to be hurricane proof. During Hurricane Georges, Mobile Health's NT server crashed and the Red Hat Linux server took up the slack. Before long, the Red Hat server was also carrying local government offices, giving them a Web site to post vital weather information, warnings and road closings that received thousands of hits during the hurricane. Not bad for a Pentium 133 on Red Hat Linux.
See, Red Hat should have nothing to fear. Good luck guys, and hope all turns out for the best!
Ah... I can just see it now. Imagine, if we can someone revive or reactivate dead brain cells, what kind of world would we have?
:)
- Farrah Fawcett would finally get that Nobel Prize for her work on superstring theory that clearly shows the interrelations between the weak force and this year's hemlines.
- AOL becomes the Internet center for reasonable discussion and carefully crafted thought.
- Oprah's latest book club selection: "The Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius".
- Network executives realize their impact on civilization, build an advanced spacecraft, and then hurl themselves into the sun. "Crusade" is renewed for four and half more seasons.
- Cheech & Chong for President!
Let's hope they actually get this work in humans. I recommend that they begin testing immediately. They could begin testing on lawyers - no one will bother to stop them, although one never knows if the data collected from them will be applicable to humans...
No lawyers were harmed in this post. I'll try harder next time.
I loved the Amiga back in the old days. I remember walking into an Amiga dealership in Des Moines (back in the Commodore days... another system that I've a soft spot for) and seeing the "Walker demo". I'd never seen anything like it, it really was years ahead of anyone else.
Unfortunately, the times have changed. Amiga is never going to take the marketshare of SGI in the high-end graphic workstation field. They're not going to beat out eMachines or any of the other cheap Internet computer manufacturers. They've fallen behind, and in a world that works on Internet time, that's not something anything can easily recover from.
Now, if they actually did build a Transmeta-powered Linux system with support for full-motion video editing, audio, 3D graphics, and support for Windoze software at an affordable price, they might actually be able to survive. However, I wouldn't hold your breath for this to happen. Amiga is dead... it has been on life support for a long time, and perhaps now someone has mercifully pulled the plug. Let's just remember that they got there first, and make sure that we also never forget why Amiga is dead as a doornail and SGI is thriving.