I think by 'makes history' he means the people who affect history, not the scribes and clerks who write it all up and (hopefully) don't 'make' any history (up) as they go along.
(disclaimer- I often have to slow down to avoid running over chickens on the way to work in the morning, and across the road from our house there is either a few hundred acres of corn or soybeans each summer)
This sounds like a flame topic, for the most part. Farmers who signed an agreement not to replant shouldn't replant.
Now, if there were cases where seeds had inadvertantly spread, and people were getting in trouble for said seeds spreading to their land and them replanting, it would be different. As it stands, it's a business deal thing.
Farmers who want to replant part of their harvest each year should plant varietes that they aren't prohibited from replanting in the agreement they make when procuring seed.
This is definitely a 'Michael' topic, though, isn't it?
One thing that is interesting is the almost complete lacking, outside of Netscape/Mozilla, of a free and nice-to-use WYSIWYG HTML editor.
It's nice to be able to casually throw together eBay bid pages without having to use horrendous crap and/or a plaintext editor.
Which is why I, and apparently some others here, view Firefox as a dangerous, negative tendency.
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You didn't offend us. You come off like an arrogant prick, though.
A few years back, it was the pro-Microsoft fscks who yelled all the 'get new hardware' insults, and the OSS community that championed old-hardware-working-better-with-less-bloat.
Seems that as OSS has gotten more popular, it's been taken up by the people who flash plastic rather freely at the big box stores. And they figure they're in charge now, and the goal of OSS is to be as big and bloated as Microsoft, 'to compete with it.'
The GNU toolchain, including TAR and all the 'usual suspects' had been available on NT almost since the beginning. A lot of console-oriented UNIX heads grabbed hold of NT right away. It was so much better than anything else, at the time, that would run on crummy PeeCee hardware.
Go to cheapbytes.com and order one of their 'cheapbytes' CD distros. It will cost you under ten bucks to get the equivalent of a downloadable ISO, pressed on a commercial CD. They 'clone' the downloadable releases of many Linux and BSD distros. Their 'Pink Tie' linux is fun, it does an end-run around Red Hat's 'brand name' arrogance.
In my experience, NT 4.0 will 'find' and install a new network card pretty easily. It won't` mind you, pop up a 'plug and play' dialogue during a boot, potentially throwing the whole system into a loop, like some other OS versions.
You appear to be dabbling in warmed-up old FUD anecdotes. Perhaps you should be careful. There are a lot of people here who know better. Your credibility may suffer.
Windows/DOS is rather stupid and easily fooled. The way I do it is by creating a directory with the name of the file I don't want 'restored.' It's prefectly acceptable for there to be a directory named IEXPLORE.EXE.
Not that I get into that sort of wrassling match with Windows these days. The Windows boxes here aren't used much for online stuff.
The big sources of lead poisioning have been eliminated. But the regulatory monster created to 'fight' them must, as always with any bureaucracy, live on.
So exponentially decreasing sources of 'lead poisoning' must all be done away with, as our technical ability to measure ever-decreasing levels of contaminant increases.
It's much the same as the hysterial surrounding asbestos contamination. A bunch of fucks built a whole industry around 'asbestos abatement' and run around ripping buildings apart to get out the stable, safe asbestos in them. Yet the hazards of asbestos come when workers are exposed to it over the long term in the form of free dust in the workplace.
Same as it ever was. A bunch of regulatory fucks who should go out and get a real job.
CP/M (CP/M-86) was available for the IBM PC. I have a boxed original set on my bookshelf. It failed miserably in the marketplace, though. Most people thought 'IBM' when they bought DOS for their PC, not Microsoft. Granted, it was because no third-party developers wrote apps for it that CP/M-86 faded. That and it was a lot more expensive than PC-DOS.
And you just finished calling MS-DOS a direct copy of CP/M. Now you're going to maintain QDOS was an inferior copy? It wasn't annointed by Kildal, or something, so it's inherently inferior?
You blew it, anyway, when you didn't mention that UNIX ran well in the early days, on 32K machines. A 32K box was a BIG box that would support multiple users well. These puny 'single user' systems never matched up to that.
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I think by 'makes history' he means the people who affect history, not the scribes and clerks who write it all up and (hopefully) don't 'make' any history (up) as they go along.
Shit, no one who taught in my high school even knew Calculus, much less Linux.
So, you're claiming that 'knowing Linux' is a step or two up from knowing the calculus?
Weird. That isn't the alternative universe that I come from...
What's the point in multiple circuits and multiple power supplies and only one UPS?
First, under Communism as described by Marx there would be no state at all.
It's equally amusing to ponder Oz as described by Baum, of course.
ESR is an opportunist, and while a lot of communists are also opportunists, this does not mean that ESR is a communist.
People who produce and release software under a BSD-type license are working to put OSS out of business??
Sucks, doesn't it, considering how much per ounce you paid for those %$^&@#$ seeds!
Final nail in the coffin?
You mean no other seed companies exist?
(disclaimer- I often have to slow down to avoid running over chickens on the way to work in the morning, and across the road from our house there is either a few hundred acres of corn or soybeans each summer)
Nope. You never signed an agreement with Monsanto. You're not breaking any agreement.
Don't weave up a whole arguement based on a contrived supposition.
This sounds like a flame topic, for the most part. Farmers who signed an agreement not to replant shouldn't replant.
Now, if there were cases where seeds had inadvertantly spread, and people were getting in trouble for said seeds spreading to their land and them replanting, it would be different. As it stands, it's a business deal thing.
Farmers who want to replant part of their harvest each year should plant varietes that they aren't prohibited from replanting in the agreement they make when procuring seed.
This is definitely a 'Michael' topic, though, isn't it?
One thing that is interesting is the almost complete lacking, outside of Netscape/Mozilla, of a free and nice-to-use WYSIWYG HTML editor.
It's nice to be able to casually throw together eBay bid pages without having to use horrendous crap and/or a plaintext editor.
Which is why I, and apparently some others here, view Firefox as a dangerous, negative tendency.
You didn't offend us. You come off like an arrogant prick, though.
A few years back, it was the pro-Microsoft fscks who yelled all the 'get new hardware' insults, and the OSS community that championed old-hardware-working-better-with-less-bloat.
Seems that as OSS has gotten more popular, it's been taken up by the people who flash plastic rather freely at the big box stores. And they figure they're in charge now, and the goal of OSS is to be as big and bloated as Microsoft, 'to compete with it.'
What a crock.
They also sued Orange Computer.
Apple makes a lot of use of Lawyers. They have from practically day one.
Shit, the place I am working still has IBM
XT systems out in 'production' controlling test equipment.
Which is cool, really, because it's the kind of thing that repels marketing fucks and twinkies, keeping them out of the test lab.
There are also some test fixtures with Commodore SX64 machines still connected to them, but for the most part that stuff isn't being used anymore.
I'm a BOFH. I work with lusers....
Uh, you're an IT janitor. Making all the usual assumptions about the other people in the building who don't repect your high-tech broom cart.
The GNU toolchain, including TAR and all the 'usual suspects' had been available on NT almost since the beginning. A lot of console-oriented UNIX heads grabbed hold of NT right away. It was so much better than anything else, at the time, that would run on crummy PeeCee hardware.
Go to cheapbytes.com and order one of their 'cheapbytes' CD distros. It will cost you under ten bucks to get the equivalent of a downloadable ISO, pressed on a commercial CD. They 'clone' the downloadable releases of many Linux and BSD distros. Their 'Pink Tie' linux is fun, it does an end-run around Red Hat's 'brand name' arrogance.
In my experience, NT 4.0 will 'find' and install a new network card pretty easily. It won't` mind you, pop up a 'plug and play' dialogue during a boot, potentially throwing the whole system into a loop, like some other OS versions.
You appear to be dabbling in warmed-up old FUD anecdotes. Perhaps you should be careful. There are a lot of people here who know better. Your credibility may suffer.
Yes, but something has hilled all the punctuation keys on your keyboard. Maybe you need to shake a little snow out of it?
Huh? Why have anything but a hard drive and ethernet?
Windows/DOS is rather stupid and easily fooled. The way I do it is by creating a directory with the name of the file I don't want 'restored.' It's prefectly acceptable for there to be a directory named IEXPLORE.EXE.
Not that I get into that sort of wrassling match with Windows these days. The Windows boxes here aren't used much for online stuff.
Conformal coating also makes product re-work expensive and component level troubleshooting almost impossible.
Which increases the scrap rate- more wasted circuit boards headed to the landfill. More contiminants.
No, the problem is:
The big sources of lead poisioning have been eliminated. But the regulatory monster created to 'fight' them must, as always with any bureaucracy, live on.
So exponentially decreasing sources of 'lead poisoning' must all be done away with, as our technical ability to measure ever-decreasing levels of contaminant increases.
It's much the same as the hysterial surrounding asbestos contamination. A bunch of fucks built a whole industry around 'asbestos abatement' and run around ripping buildings apart to get out the stable, safe asbestos in them. Yet the hazards of asbestos come when workers are exposed to it over the long term in the form of free dust in the workplace.
Same as it ever was. A bunch of regulatory fucks who should go out and get a real job.
CP/M (CP/M-86) was available for the IBM PC. I have a boxed original set on my bookshelf. It failed miserably in the marketplace, though. Most people thought 'IBM' when they bought DOS for their PC, not Microsoft. Granted, it was because no third-party developers wrote apps for it that CP/M-86 faded. That and it was a lot more expensive than PC-DOS.
And you just finished calling MS-DOS a direct copy of CP/M. Now you're going to maintain QDOS was an inferior copy? It wasn't annointed by Kildal, or something, so it's inherently inferior?
You blew it, anyway, when you didn't mention that UNIX ran well in the early days, on 32K machines. A 32K box was a BIG box that would support multiple users well. These puny 'single user' systems never matched up to that.
My wife doesn't know what VNC is, though, so I can occasionally check in on her system to see which pogo.com game she is playing at any time.