Or did you think that $59 price tag was to be donated to the FSF?
Hmm?
Secondly, since when does an OS need to be Unix to be mentionable? Clue: Linux is not Unix! Its origins are not from the BSD school because the kernel sprouted from the head of Linus. Just because a distribution *looks like* System V at the command line, doesn't make it a descendent of any of the BSD lineage.
Thirdly, Microsoft pulled out of OS/2 a looooong time ago and stole a bunch of code (why hasn't IBM sued yet?) in the process to make Win9x and NT.
Lastly, as a former OS/2 user/hacker, I must remind you that posting non-facts here can make you look silly.
As for who to blame, I place the blame squarely on IBM's shoulders. They refused to fight the FUD with facts and had the WORST advertising campaign known to mankind. To this day, they have no idea what kind of decent OS they had or what kind of challenge they could have given Evil Bill. Remember that this was an OS that was full 32 bit, had drag-n-drop capabilities that NO version of Windoze has to this day, a decent scripting/batch language, and better DOS support, and this was back in the days of Win3.11 being the best out of Redmond.
According to THIS ARTICLE, the US has more inmates per capita than Turkey.
And Turkey is supposed to be repressive.
What's wrong with this picture?
I am ashamed at the way my country has dealt with victimless crimes such as pot smoking. The war on drugs is an embarrassment to us, the taxpayers, because we keep throwing money at a non-existent "problem", and it makes the US look like a bunch of fools who can't figure out the obvious answer.
Home of the free? Only if you're willing to walk in goose-step with the alphabet soup of federal agencies fighting the war on free thought.
You can turn it into some sort of server, donate it, turn it into a firewall, etc...
Shameless plug:
The Boston Computer Exchange run by a former neighbor of mine. If ya also want, he had a program back in the late 80's to send computers to developing democracies as the Iron Curtain crumbled.
Alex, if you're reading this, HI!!
Recycle that old PC...it's not as worthless as you think.
The example you gave is similar to what happened back in....wavy lines....the East Coast Blackout of 1965. Essentially it was exactly as you describe. A substation got overloaded, switched off to dump the load to the rest of the grid, and the rest of the grid being at/near capacity cascaded shutdowns until there was *nothing* (except for bits of Maine) electical running in the entire Northeast within 5 minutes.
Technology is going to outrace the politicians whether they like it or not. Engineers will always be smarter than the BigBrother loving politicians such as Janet Reno, and her henchmen in the NSA and FBI.
BTW, the NSA, being recalcitrant in its dealings with congress may find itself extremely short of funds soon if they don't cooperate on the investigation of Echelon and other boondoggles.
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Yes, OS/2 is commercial, but then, so is BeOS.
Or did you think that $59 price tag was to be donated to the FSF?
Hmm?
Secondly, since when does an OS need to be Unix to be mentionable? Clue: Linux is not Unix! Its origins are not from the BSD school because the kernel sprouted from the head of Linus. Just because a distribution *looks like* System V at the command line, doesn't make it a descendent of any of the BSD lineage.
Thirdly, Microsoft pulled out of OS/2 a looooong time ago and stole a bunch of code (why hasn't IBM sued yet?) in the process to make Win9x and NT.
Lastly, as a former OS/2 user/hacker, I must remind you that posting non-facts here can make you look silly.
As for who to blame, I place the blame squarely on IBM's shoulders. They refused to fight the FUD with facts and had the WORST advertising campaign known to mankind. To this day, they have no idea what kind of decent OS they had or what kind of challenge they could have given Evil Bill. Remember that this was an OS that was full 32 bit, had drag-n-drop capabilities that NO version of Windoze has to this day, a decent scripting/batch language, and better DOS support, and this was back in the days of Win3.11 being the best out of Redmond.
OS/2 is dead because IBM eats its children.
THIS ARTICLE, the US has more inmates per capita than Turkey.
And Turkey is supposed to be repressive.
What's wrong with this picture?
I am ashamed at the way my country has dealt with victimless crimes
such as pot smoking. The war on drugs is an embarrassment to us,
the taxpayers, because we keep throwing money at a non-existent "problem",
and it makes the US look like a bunch of fools who can't figure out
the obvious answer.
Home of the free? Only if you're willing to walk in goose-step
with the alphabet soup of federal agencies fighting the war on free thought.
You can turn it into some sort of server, donate it, turn it into a firewall, etc...
Shameless plug:
The Boston Computer Exchange run by a former neighbor of mine. If ya also want, he had a program back in the late 80's to send computers to developing democracies as the Iron Curtain crumbled.
Alex, if you're reading this, HI!!
Recycle that old PC...it's not as worthless as you think.
The example you gave is similar to what happened back in ....wavy lines....the East Coast Blackout of 1965. Essentially it was exactly as you describe. A substation got overloaded, switched off to dump the load to the rest of the grid, and the rest of the grid being at/near capacity cascaded shutdowns until there was *nothing* (except for bits of Maine) electical running in the entire Northeast within 5 minutes.
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http://www.cmpco.com/aboutCMP/powersystem/black
Technology is going to outrace the politicians whether they like it or not. Engineers will always be smarter than the BigBrother loving politicians such as Janet Reno, and her henchmen in the NSA and FBI.
BTW, the NSA, being recalcitrant in its dealings with congress may find itself extremely short of funds soon if they don't cooperate on the investigation of Echelon and other boondoggles.