Both stock buybacks and stock splits have long been considered legitimate tools for a company to use to keep stock value up for shareholders. Now the author wants to outlaw both.
If you actually read the text you pasted in you'd see that he only talks about doing it for 10years... which I guess is his idea for Microsoft to normalise...
Strange though.. his website, while interesting, comes accross as very extreme.... Maybe its cos he's been ignored for so long?
If you'd actually *read* the page you might not have wasted your breath.
Okay, so this isn't exactly earth shattering news. And sendmail *may* be a tad bloaty, but I've run sendmail on half a dozen servers for a few years now and I've never had any problems, apart from my own stupidity.
Okay, so the configuration file is a real dog, but thats what the M4 configuration is there for. Although I do wonder why you have to create a config file to create a config file, it works and works well.
This new version looks to be building upon sendmail for the better, IMHO.
One final thing... I heard rumours that to be Sun certified you have to be able to write the sendmail.cf from *scratch* is this true or just someones warped imagination?
At the last show I went to.. Windows 98 or somthing (anything for a free day off work) they had some rather nifty workstations from IBM. Basically they were X Terminals with the WinFrame client in.. You could have your X app next to your Win app...
And I'm not at all surprised at he uptake of NT Terminal server. The licensing pushes the cost up more. You're basically paying for Terminal Server (which costs more than NT server anyway) + a WinNT workstation licence, even if you're using one of these terminals, or, in fact if you're using Win95.. Microsoft win-win situation..
Europe is known for nobody wanting to pay for software.
Humm.. Not in my experience, and personally I pay for the software I use.
But, if they didn't want to pay for the software, they don't have to, as both Red Hat and Mandrake offer their distributions on the net. Oh, and by getting it off the net, you don't have to wait 3-4 months for them to ship it over here, either.
I've been reading his books for a while now (since Red Mars came out in paperback), and I have to say nothings come up to the Mars trilogy. You could tell he's put alot of his life into researching, thinking and dreaming about how colonising Mars could have gone, and how science will change. There are parts of the book that we're a tad to slow.Theyhad alot of description, that almost put me off reading the rest (and stoped friends who I forced the books onto).
This didn't stop me queuing up to get Blue Mars in hardback to come out, and to meed the man and get the book signed (I really wanted that "University of Mars" tshirt he had).
I read his older books (could only ever find two of the Orange County trilogy books) and wasn't best impressed. I read Icehenge and binned it (sorry, but It was trash, imho). I egerly awaited his next book, Antartica..
I read it, and was struck how it was the Mars trilogy, without the interesting people, and too much talking about the landscape again. I mean I'm not adverse to it, but you need something more to happen..
But at least The Martians put him back on form again...
Linux's weakness is that its not easy to use. This is being rectified slowly though.. RPMs (althought they have their own problems), easier distribution installers, friendler desktops.. Kernel updating though still isn't quite there though... but, then, does it have to be? For the average new-to-linux person, how often do they have update their kernel? If it is a security kernel fix, which major distribution doesn't put them into its own package format and put it on their ftp site...? And which which distribution doesn't have an easy to use package installer/upgrader tool?
So, perhaps the question should be... does the user know where to look for these?
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When I was looking for an app to do this a while back I found Helpdesk 5.1 from Jeremy Robst. It is web based and uses Perl, Apache and an SQL server.
Looked to be quite good from what I read, although I never actually got to use it. Hope its of use to you.
Both stock buybacks and stock splits have long been considered legitimate tools for a company to use to keep stock value up for shareholders. Now the author wants to outlaw both.
If you actually read the text you pasted in you'd see that he only talks about doing it for 10years... which I guess is his idea for Microsoft to normalise...
Strange though.. his website, while interesting, comes accross as very extreme.... Maybe its cos he's been ignored for so long?
I know... thats about what I thought.. Its like something I'd come up with...!
Huh?
If you'd actually *read* the page you might not have wasted your breath.
Okay, so this isn't exactly earth shattering news. And sendmail *may* be a tad bloaty, but I've run sendmail on half a dozen servers for a few years now and I've never had any problems, apart from my own stupidity.
Okay, so the configuration file is a real dog, but thats what the M4 configuration is there for. Although I do wonder why you have to create a config file to create a config file, it works and works well.
This new version looks to be building upon sendmail for the better, IMHO.
One final thing... I heard rumours that to be Sun certified you have to be able to write the sendmail.cf from *scratch* is this true or just someones warped imagination?
Still, what about us tar.gz users? let alone .debs and .slps!
How many people actually want to go through and make multiple packages? Two, maybe.. but 4+? I think not.
At the last show I went to.. Windows 98 or somthing (anything for a free day off work) they had some rather nifty workstations from IBM. Basically they were X Terminals with the WinFrame client in.. You could have your X app next to your Win app...
And I'm not at all surprised at he uptake of NT Terminal server. The licensing pushes the cost up more. You're basically paying for Terminal Server (which costs more than NT server anyway) + a WinNT workstation licence, even if you're using one of these terminals, or, in fact if you're using Win95.. Microsoft win-win situation..
Humm.. Not in my experience, and personally I pay for the software I use.
But, if they didn't want to pay for the software, they don't have to, as both Red Hat and Mandrake offer their distributions on the net. Oh, and by getting it off the net, you don't have to wait 3-4 months for them to ship it over here, either.
I've been reading his books for a while now (since Red Mars came out in paperback), and I have to say nothings come up to the Mars trilogy. You could tell he's put alot of his life into researching, thinking and dreaming about how colonising Mars could have gone, and how science will change. There are parts of the book that we're a tad to slow.Theyhad alot of description, that almost put me off reading the rest (and stoped friends who I forced the books onto).
This didn't stop me queuing up to get Blue Mars in hardback to come out, and to meed the man and get the book signed (I really wanted that "University of Mars" tshirt he had).
I read his older books (could only ever find two of the Orange County trilogy books) and wasn't best impressed. I read Icehenge and binned it (sorry, but It was trash, imho). I egerly awaited his next book, Antartica..
I read it, and was struck how it was the Mars trilogy, without the interesting people, and too much talking about the landscape again. I mean I'm not adverse to it, but you need something more to happen..
But at least The Martians put him back on form again...
Linux's weakness is that its not easy to use. This is being rectified slowly though.. RPMs (althought they have their own problems), easier distribution installers, friendler desktops..
Kernel updating though still isn't quite there though... but, then, does it have to be? For the average new-to-linux person, how often do they have update their kernel? If it is a security kernel fix, which major distribution doesn't put them into its own package format and put it on their ftp site...? And which which distribution doesn't have an easy to use package installer/upgrader tool?
So, perhaps the question should be... does the user know where to look for these?
Poor bloke..
:)
but then he doesn't exactly look bothered does he?