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Oracle Buys Sun
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With their recent blade announcement, Cisco could easily fit Red Hat's OS and middleware stack along with NetApp's storage offering to become a true datacenter powerhouse.
I feel a bit sorry for HP who have to work all that much harder now.
Its just the all-buying, VMware-owning EMC that I can't figure out.. Where do they want to be and what do they need to buy to get there?
Although I am no fan of MS or their licensing models, this article is totally pointless. Did anyone read the article before submitting it to/. or were we all taken in by the possibility to smear MS (yes, it is fun, but still).
This idea is as stupid as they get, the logic is flawed and experience has shown us otherwise. The most spam we get at our company is for accounts that have been bouncing for several years.
Surely no-one will act blindly on this poor fool's ramblings and kill their mail systems?
If you can't figure out what's wrong with it, don't try it.
I see your point and understand the synergies involved. But practical evidence does not point to a strong link between nuclear energy and developing nuclear weapons.
Remember that there are plenty of responsible countries who use nuclear and have absolutely no intention or need for a nuclear weapon.. take the Nordic countries, Belgium or Switzerland as examples, just to name a few. Honestly, how likely is it to see Sweden or Finland developing a nuclear weapon in our times?
Seems our Bruce cannot see the difference between nuclear weapons and nuclear power. One does not imply the other. What a waste of bandwidth.
If someone has a better realistic solution than nuclear power, please speak up.
Help SCO's Open Source Software ;)
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Today's SCO News
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The URL http://www.sco.com/soss/ takes you to a very helpful page which, among other topics, has an address where you can "Report problems, make suggestions, get help". I certainly reported a problem with SCO & open source, suggested a few alternatives courses of action and asked for their help in understanding what they hoped to achieve. Maybe you have questions for SCO too... I might even send them another mail later today.
You can always make guesses about the future, thats easy and cheap entertainment.
For the end-user what matters is what works NOW. I have travelled all over Europe, also in China, Malesia, Jamaica and even Cuba without having to loose my lifeline to the rest of the world, switch SIM-cards or handsets or actually do anything out of the ordinary. It works just like it would work at home.
But I still cannot use my cellphone at JFK or Newark airport, for example. Call that progress?
Hardly surprising since Europe outnumbers North America in population easily. For example the EU states alone count some 378 million people and the whole of Europe is over 800 million. North America on the other hand is some 318 million.
Sorry to spoil your fun, but the project has been popping up in Finnish media for several years now. The company developing the beast was bought up by John Deere some time ago.. maybe the integration of the companies and websites is a bit behind schedule?
Trees have a very neat feature included per default: THEY GROW BACK!
Come to Finland where this contraption was developed and you'd see what I mean: trees, trees, trees and trees until you're sick of them. And at the same time, we're home to many of the world's leading paper companies.
Yes, it might come as a shock, but trees actually grow back when properly dealt with.
"If you look at some of the real winners today - I'll pick Ireland, I'll pick
Norway, I'll pick Singapore, I'll pick Costa Rica - these are countries which
have done really quite well in the digital world. The four of them have
something really interesting in common and that is that each one of them is
3.5 million people - there is a kind of a magic about the number of 3.5
million - it turns about to be a reasonable size. "
Well, almost.
When I last checked, Norway had a good 4,5 million people, Singapore some 4,3 million and Ireland 3,8 million. His guess for Costa Rica is quite close with 3,7 million, but is 3 out of 4 really that good for a "genius".
No big deal, I know, but it still wrecks his magic number;)
Benefon (http://www.benefon.com/) has been in the mobile business for quite a while. They were strong in the NMT networks during the eighties and early nineties, but were late in switching to GSM. This probably set them back financially quite a lot.
The new products from Benefon are geeky gadgets at their best: innovative, ground-breaking and stylish. They've also entered some interesting niche markets lately. For example, they provide a german medical service (Sorry, can't remember the name) with automatic mobile reports on a patient's hearbeat and other factors. I believe it can also send out the exact location of the patient in the case of a heart attack.
There's a small section explaining the companies history on their website. Check it out.
"Will we soon have to worry about our rights online in a legal system outside of the United States?"
Get used to it... For the rest of the world, that foreign "legal system" is the US. And if I had the choice, I'd go for a multinational representative body anyday!
Each mobile is in a specific cell and operators can extract very detailed information on the phone's movements (atleast with GSM). Remember, that for a mobile to operate, it's last active location inside the network is always known.
And GPS is already available in a mobile phone from Benefon, a Finnish manufacturer.
I'm curious how this will work given the lack of consistency with in building coverage and other interference that mobiles can suffer.
With GSM systems (and probably others too), your cells can tailored to fit your needs. For example, you can have cells serving each floor and a vertical cell serving the elevator shaft. These kind of systems are typical in large shopping centers and offices. In addition to given good coverage, they also cut down on network signalling traffic due to less cell changes (the elevator, subway or a highway are good examples of tailored cells).
Disclaimer: I am not a mobile network professional. Be prepared to accept errors in what I say.
I noticed last summer, that with a GSM to handle my calls and a cable modem for network access, my regular phone was mostly unused. Come to think of it, most of my friends don't have regular telephones anymore.
Atleast over here in Finland, the mobile markets are very competitive which brings down the prices. Regular telephone calls are cheaper, but the fixed monthly fee is considerably higher.
Some years ago, someone won a light-hearted technical innovation competition in Finland with small pieces of jewellery that also sensed the presence of another. The idea was, that if you were looking for company, you switched your sensor on and any others (of opposite sex?) nearby with their sensors also on would respond. I think it showed the presence of the other sensor with a small glowing light in the necklace, ring or whatever.
Gimmicks.. can live without 'em, can't get enough of 'em.
Yes, it is a good thing that developing countries are considering Linux. Yes, Linux is a very good system for them and us. And yes, we have heard all this before. The article didn't give anyone who's found their way to/. anything new to read or think about.
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With their recent blade announcement, Cisco could easily fit Red Hat's OS and middleware stack along with NetApp's storage offering to become a true datacenter powerhouse.
I feel a bit sorry for HP who have to work all that much harder now.
Its just the all-buying, VMware-owning EMC that I can't figure out.. Where do they want to be and what do they need to buy to get there?
And I was expecting to waste at least half of my working day reading these. Was this the first of a two part series?
Although I am no fan of MS or their licensing models, this article is totally pointless. Did anyone read the article before submitting it to /. or were we all taken in by the possibility to smear MS (yes, it is fun, but still).
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Who said 'open' meant open source
This idea is as stupid as they get, the logic is flawed and experience has shown us otherwise. The most spam we get at our company is for accounts that have been bouncing for several years.
Surely no-one will act blindly on this poor fool's ramblings and kill their mail systems?
If you can't figure out what's wrong with it, don't try it.
Remember that there are plenty of responsible countries who use nuclear and have absolutely no intention or need for a nuclear weapon.. take the Nordic countries, Belgium or Switzerland as examples, just to name a few. Honestly, how likely is it to see Sweden or Finland developing a nuclear weapon in our times?
If someone has a better realistic solution than nuclear power, please speak up.
The URL http://www.sco.com/soss/ takes you to a very helpful page which, among other topics, has an address where you can "Report problems, make suggestions, get help". I certainly reported a problem with SCO & open source, suggested a few alternatives courses of action and asked for their help in understanding what they hoped to achieve. Maybe you have questions for SCO too... I might even send them another mail later today.
For the end-user what matters is what works NOW. I have travelled all over Europe, also in China, Malesia, Jamaica and even Cuba without having to loose my lifeline to the rest of the world, switch SIM-cards or handsets or actually do anything out of the ordinary. It works just like it would work at home. But I still cannot use my cellphone at JFK or Newark airport, for example. Call that progress?
Figures from http://cf.geocities.com/populationdata/europe.htm
Come to Finland where this contraption was developed and you'd see what I mean: trees, trees, trees and trees until you're sick of them. And at the same time, we're home to many of the world's leading paper companies.
Yes, it might come as a shock, but trees actually grow back when properly dealt with.
.. since I wouldn't recognise any of them anyway unless they had the name of the band written on their t-shirts.
Well, almost.
When I last checked, Norway had a good 4,5 million people, Singapore some 4,3 million and Ireland 3,8 million. His guess for Costa Rica is quite close with 3,7 million, but is 3 out of 4 really that good for a "genius".
No big deal, I know, but it still wrecks his magic number ;)
Benefon (http://www.benefon.com/) has been in the mobile business for quite a while. They were strong in the NMT networks during the eighties and early nineties, but were late in switching to GSM. This probably set them back financially quite a lot.
The new products from Benefon are geeky gadgets at their best: innovative, ground-breaking and stylish. They've also entered some interesting niche markets lately. For example, they provide a german medical service (Sorry, can't remember the name) with automatic mobile reports on a patient's hearbeat and other factors. I believe it can also send out the exact location of the patient in the case of a heart attack.
There's a small section explaining the companies history on their website. Check it out.
If you've followed the case, you'll know that the command name was to remain ssh. Only the protocol was to be changed.
So no symlinking would have been necessary anyway.
SSHd is available for W2K. See http://www.ssh.com/.
It is also commercial and expensive, but then, losing your data has a price tag too.
I find it useful (weekly backup amount some 400G).
Get used to it... For the rest of the world, that foreign "legal system" is the US. And if I had the choice, I'd go for a multinational representative body anyday!
Each mobile is in a specific cell and operators can extract very detailed information on the phone's movements (atleast with GSM). Remember, that for a mobile to operate, it's last active location inside the network is always known.
And GPS is already available in a mobile phone from Benefon, a Finnish manufacturer.
With GSM systems (and probably others too), your cells can tailored to fit your needs. For example, you can have cells serving each floor and a vertical cell serving the elevator shaft. These kind of systems are typical in large shopping centers and offices. In addition to given good coverage, they also cut down on network signalling traffic due to less cell changes (the elevator, subway or a highway are good examples of tailored cells).
Disclaimer: I am not a mobile network professional. Be prepared to accept errors in what I say.
I noticed last summer, that with a GSM to handle my calls and a cable modem for network access, my regular phone was mostly unused. Come to think of it, most of my friends don't have regular telephones anymore.
Atleast over here in Finland, the mobile markets are very competitive which brings down the prices. Regular telephone calls are cheaper, but the fixed monthly fee is considerably higher.
Gimmicks.. can live without 'em, can't get enough of 'em.
News must be scarce on a weekend