User: A nonymous Coward

A free market is an UNCONTROLLED market

On: Microsoft Overcharged Industry US$10B

and that means with NOBODY in control, neither guvmint nor Microshaft.

Adam Smith's invisible hand only works when there are so many consumers and producers that no one individual can influence it. M$ long ago passed the point of being too big for a free market.

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A Quick off-the-cuff idea

On: Using Linux to Cut-Down on Tech Support Costs?

Disclaimers: I don't know what I'm talking about, I haven't done it, I don't know enough about windows to know how it would react.

OK. Install Windows, get it virgin like you want the students to see it.

Set up a second partition with a bare bones Linux partition.

Set up LILO to boot the Linux partition.

Now, from the Linux partition, DD the Windows partition to a Linux file.

And then set up boot so it goes to Linux, which DDs the (big-ass :-) file back to the Windows partitions, and then --


--- magic happens here ---


-- reboots into Windows mode.

I don't know exactly how you'd do that last reboot into Windows mode.

But DD is your friend if you want to restore the Windows partition to a known state.

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Oh, I get it -- so work used to be "fun"?

On: Why Work Sucks

Keerist on a keerutch. What is your attention span? Go to any Detroit worker nowadyas OR 10, 20,50 years ago -- think they enjoyed their jobs?

Fun is what you make it. Work is what you make it. I could double my salary by working in Silicon Valley but I choose not to.

And Katz -- do you enjoy this job you have, of writing silly articles devoid of meaning?

This article is about as useful as edible underwear that's been worn for 3 months straight.

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Bonsai potato site front page makes you wait

On: Batch o Quickees

and talks about those who haven't the time for waiting. Is this an example of potato zen at work?

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Good Riddance, but it ain't so, too bad

On: Hayes is Dead

Didn't Hayes sue other modem manufacturers for using the +++ interrupt idea? I say good riddance. What an idiotic thing to patent.

On the other hand, this article reports that a Hayes VP says they aren't dead. Too bad.

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Yessss!

On: Linus and his Merry Men (aka H4)

Good King Richard!

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Is one is as good as the other?

On: QuickTime 4 Streaming Server to be Open Source?

Could not one be deduced from the other? I have always thought RealNetworks stunk (stank? smelled!) because the protocol is proprietary and secret. If so, then releasing the source for a server would make it easy enough to write a client, right? I expect there could be some fun trying to guess the inverse algorithm, but it shouyld be possible, methinks with too little true knowledge.

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