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it's probably the hardware companies like IBM and Sun who would find it worthwhile.
IBM have specifically taken a hands-off approach to Linux. They have team members contributing to the 'greater' Linux source trees, but there's no sanctioned 'IBM' brand of Linux. They don't want nor need an 'official' IBM version of Linux.
It would apply to a version-frozen release. Probably as long as rigorous version control was implemented on further evolution and development of the certified version, incremental certification, rather than a full re-cert, would be acceptable.
I liked Doom and Doom 2. We passed Doom around on sets of floppy disks. It was nearly as good as Wolfenstein 3D. Ah, the days of being the only guy in my crowd with a 486 and 16 megs at home...
I'd have to upgrade my hardware substantially to enjoy Doom 3, but may need to do that.
If there isn't new hardware being produced, the architecture is 'dead' for all intents and purposes. I could write code to make the 8085 in my TRS-80 Model 100 emulate an 8088 and run MS-DOS on it. An enthusiast could get an old PDP-11 to emulate an Apple II.
It's cool, it's great hacking material, but it's a 'dead end' project. Nothing wrong at all with cool dead-end projects (Anybody need an Intersil 6100 chip? 12 bit static CMOS microcontrollers that run the PDP-8 instruction set rule!), but they're, ummm, dead.
A NetBSD system, all nicely configured using FVWM2 and good solid well-known X configs (the O'Reilly X Window System Reference set is your friend) is probably the wisest choice.
Using FVWM doesn't give you much room to be a zealot or hothead, though.
I went to that website you link that supposedly has a demo spoof page.
I use regular plain-vanilla Mozilla and have spurned the light-duty 'Firefox' (it doesn't have a 'compose' button on the lower left of the frame, which to me is a significant bug- a 'browser' that doesn't have the built-in capability to compose web pages sounds like 'consumer-grade' crap to me. Nobody who browses the web should be without some webspace of his/her own, and the tools to easily compose said web pages. Anything else is undemocratic and borderline fascistic.)
The 'demo' page preaches at me that I 'must get firefox!'
Uh, I think I'll skip downloading and installing a piece of software just to load up a sample exploit page and exhibit it's flaws.
They've been selling Intel-on-a-card hardware for longer than that. I'd love to get ahold of an Sbus one to play with in one of my SS20's, but haven't bothered thus far along.
I just have a four-port KVM switch. So I have a NetBSD, Solaris X86, a Slackware, and a Windows 2000 machine as my 'desktop.' I don't have to dick around with rebooting to switch environments. I don't have to make the hardware 'play well' with each OS in one big complicated mess.
You'd have to be nuts to send a customer a 500 page Word document. You'd send them a PDF and/or the document in some other easily marked-up format.
Sending them the Word.DOC file sends them all your revision history and all kinds of other stuff that you don't really want or need for them to have.
Plus it's more likely to be 'broken' in format than the document sent in many other formats. Word 'breaks' formatting with simple things like the default printer, etc. It's notorious for having fussy failure-prone markup features.
Send them a document created in FrameMaker in the PDF format.
He's probably talking about five years from now, when Apple has 'moved on' and abandoned all that nice PPC hardware. We'll happily be running Linux on it. Run a five year old version of OSX? You're kidding, right?
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For all your 'fashion coding' buzzwords, I just say yaaaaaaaaaa!
Goodness gracious. You're advocating people insert hard carriage returns that delimit at 80 columns??
Perhaps you'd be happy with a word processor that rings a little bell when you reach column 75??
'The way it used to be' was 80 column punched cards. That vintage ASCII art started out as a deck of cards, ya know...
your good looking USB mouse
Wow. I've never shopped for a mouse based on it's appearance.
Maybe I should cut a window and install 'round' cables in the RS/6000 box.
JiffyLube probably wouldn't have any particular difficulties servicing a DeLorean. They don't exactly rebore cylinders at JiffyLube, ya know.
Didn't you know? I can run both Linux and Windows NT on my PowerPC based RS/6000 box. Also on the Dec Alpha box I used to have.
The old name was worn out?
What happened to hAndover.org?
it's probably the hardware companies like IBM and Sun who would find it worthwhile.
IBM have specifically taken a hands-off approach to Linux. They have team members contributing to the 'greater' Linux source trees, but there's no sanctioned 'IBM' brand of Linux. They don't want nor need an 'official' IBM version of Linux.
The reasons for this are complex.
It would apply to a version-frozen release. Probably as long as rigorous version control was implemented on further evolution and development of the certified version, incremental certification, rather than a full re-cert, would be acceptable.
No 'wander down the path' distros need apply.
He meant 'volume' as in quantity sold. Not 'low volume' as in 'pipsqueak loudness.'
I always liked inciting the monsters to kill themselves off. Does the new game have that as a possible tactic?
Been awhile since I played a FPS with any amount of focus...
The rest of us play the game, while you're fretting and playing with your computer.
I mean, geez. I got a lot of enjoyment out of Commander Keen.
I liked Doom and Doom 2. We passed Doom around on sets of floppy disks. It was nearly as good as Wolfenstein 3D. Ah, the days of being the only guy in my crowd with a 486 and 16 megs at home...
I'd have to upgrade my hardware substantially to enjoy Doom 3, but may need to do that.
"Who says the Dreamcast is dead?"
If there isn't new hardware being produced, the architecture is 'dead' for all intents and purposes. I could write code to make the 8085 in my TRS-80 Model 100 emulate an 8088 and run MS-DOS on it. An enthusiast could get an old PDP-11 to emulate an Apple II.
It's cool, it's great hacking material, but it's a 'dead end' project. Nothing wrong at all with cool dead-end projects (Anybody need an Intersil 6100 chip? 12 bit static CMOS microcontrollers that run the PDP-8 instruction set rule!), but they're, ummm, dead.
There isn't a html rendering module in vi.
There is one in Emacs, and I use it sometimes.
Real men use Lynx. Sheesh, get with it, d00d.
Indeed.
A NetBSD system, all nicely configured using FVWM2 and good solid well-known X configs (the O'Reilly X Window System Reference set is your friend) is probably the wisest choice.
Using FVWM doesn't give you much room to be a zealot or hothead, though.
I went to that website you link that supposedly has a demo spoof page.
I use regular plain-vanilla Mozilla and have spurned the light-duty 'Firefox' (it doesn't have a 'compose' button on the lower left of the frame, which to me is a significant bug- a 'browser' that doesn't have the built-in capability to compose web pages sounds like 'consumer-grade' crap to me. Nobody who browses the web should be without some webspace of his/her own, and the tools to easily compose said web pages. Anything else is undemocratic and borderline fascistic.)
The 'demo' page preaches at me that I 'must get firefox!'
Uh, I think I'll skip downloading and installing a piece of software just to load up a sample exploit page and exhibit it's flaws.
Colors on Slashdot? "Use the 'Light' setting in your Slashdot Config, Will Robinson...."
They've been selling Intel-on-a-card hardware for longer than that. I'd love to get ahold of an Sbus one to play with in one of my SS20's, but haven't bothered thus far along.
coLinux sounds like a ton of work.
I just have a four-port KVM switch. So I have a NetBSD, Solaris X86, a Slackware, and a Windows 2000 machine as my 'desktop.' I don't have to dick around with rebooting to switch environments. I don't have to make the hardware 'play well' with each OS in one big complicated mess.
Personally, I like Solaris. How the hell did Microsoft muscle into this discussion. I thought the issue was Solaris seats being replaced.
Twinks like you view the whole world as Microsoft-versus-good. There's a lot more out there.
while the Linux boxes rarely get touched.
Care to post a few IP addresses? 'Rarely touched' Linux boxes controlled by over-confident users are a tasty cracker treat.
You'd have to be nuts to send a customer a 500 page Word document. You'd send them a PDF and/or the document in some other easily marked-up format.
.DOC file sends them all your revision history and all kinds of other stuff that you don't really want or need for them to have.
Sending them the Word
Plus it's more likely to be 'broken' in format than the document sent in many other formats. Word 'breaks' formatting with simple things like the default printer, etc. It's notorious for having fussy failure-prone markup features.
Send them a document created in FrameMaker in the PDF format.
He's probably talking about five years from now, when Apple has 'moved on' and abandoned all that nice PPC hardware. We'll happily be running Linux on it. Run a five year old version of OSX? You're kidding, right?
If you don't know who Rudy Boschwitz is, you really don't belong in a discussion of Paul Wellstone and Minnesota politics.
Move along, now.
Well, go out and find a real girl.
Stop dwelling on the picture of Lenin in the flyleaf of 'On Contradiction' for your 'inspiration' in such matters.