Is a suburb out side of Chicago, which suffered from a fire in the CO.
Phone service was cutoff for a large swath of suburbs in the area, they couldn't contact anyone else, and this went on for weeks.
yes, it was only one CO, it affected thousands not served by that CO, but whose traffic was routed through there. In a heirachal network, when you loose a node, you lose everybody below you, which can be really bad if it is a high enough node. In this case, it was the one CO where the LD carriers connected to the network.
not to mention the cost of Win32 development tools, mostly from MS. By the time you get what you need for decent development, your out some major bucks, and need to recoupe them.
As opposed to Linux, which comes with everything you need for free.
Lets see, the USA, promoter of free trade in the world, imposes a tariff on imported software.
I guess the poor ol' US software industry needs the protection of imports, even though until recently they needed special rules to import more tech workers, and the DOJ is working on breaking up MS.
Moving the level of the people doing the checking to full time well paid and trained people with the same authority as police will help. As will onboard air marshals.
All the folks involved in airline security need to be treated similar to the police, given livable wages and benefits.
The typical lawnmower has a motor with a vertical shaft, great for a mower, but terrible for much of anything else.
You also need to add a flywheel, since the blade serves as rotating mass.
Outfitting the motor with a pulley, and a used automobile alternator will give a couple of hundred watts of electric power, which may be used as alternative or backup power.
In light of the problems with bundling, MS should be forced to sell the operating systems at a fixed, published price, with only qty breaks.
Every one pays the same price based on volume, without exception, or bundling or other deals. And oems are free to do what they want with the code, similar to other products, no more "you must put our icons on the startup".
Putting everyone on the same footing is the place to start.
VMS used clunks which were 100 nS units. IE one clunk was a tenth of a MS. And it was the time since the epoch of Nov 18 1858 (?) which is a standard time base.
VMS actually had a bug report filed on it, that the time would overflow the standard format after the year 10K, but a fix was promised by then.
VMS had an issue, just before the 2000 event, when one of the temporary storage variables in a library time routine overflowed.
There are many things that a programmer can do that will cause problems, that is why testing has to be done under extreme circumstances, using the full range of values.
Patents work pretty good in the real world. The problems with them relate to the patent office, and how they are awarded, overly broadly and ignoring prior art. They work far better than copyright law does.
As to the licensing of the patents, a maximally high cost per unit is not always the best way to go. There are many patented products that have withered on the vine, due to poor marketing of the licenses, but that isn't a fault of the patent process. Remember, that unlike copyrights in the Disney age, patent protection eventually expires.
requiring the use of an ENUM on Usenet and other discussion forums would keep the number of flames down, if the entire world can call you at 3am local time to voice their opinion.
I sure hope the IETF members and our US politians are willing to use their home phone number as their ENUM, because that will make short work of this proposal.
It would happen in the far east, they are the ones experiencing the worst effects of the IPv4 number shortage.
The Chinese would be another likely guess, since sending all their traffic through a single (or multiple) gateways would help in both their efforts to limit the net to their population, and in the transition.
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It is a valid concern, they are people and they are impacted by this legal exercise as well.
It would be unrealistic to expect him to continue to fight against the law, if his wife and kid were starving at home because of it. This like the age old principle that a hungry army doesn't fight well.
I'm sure the fact that some/.ers do care about their well being is a comfort to them. I agree, lets not forget them.
File extensions are wonderful, they are for the HUMAN to understand. They tell the human what is needed in an easy to understand format. Putting.wks on a file tells most people exactly what is needed, and the program itself can figure out the details from the file itself, or the metadata.
The computer itself shouldn't use the extension for anything but hints for filling in unkowns with default values, according to a the users conventions.
If there customers are asking for Linux instead of AIX, and in IBM's bread and butter, that is OEM's who install their software on an IBM box, and IBM support services.
Chopping AIX's cost out of the picture, makes your vertical market solution a bit more cost competitive.
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The nature of Linux and the GPL make this both less and more likely.
Less likely because of the very wide spread nature of Linux, as the RS/6000 version isn't going to impact x86 Linux. The worst that would happen is a code fork, which is what they have now with AIX.
More likely, in that if IBM stopped developing AIX, and transfered the development effort towards Linux, it would make big difference for Linux, IBM has lots of good technology and experience with operating systems.
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Is a suburb out side of Chicago, which suffered from a fire in the CO.
Phone service was cutoff for a large swath of suburbs in the area, they couldn't contact anyone else, and this went on for weeks.
yes, it was only one CO, it affected thousands not served by that CO, but whose traffic was routed through there. In a heirachal network, when you loose a node, you lose everybody below you, which can be really bad if it is a high enough node. In this case, it was the one CO where the LD carriers connected to the network.
not to mention the cost of Win32 development tools, mostly from MS. By the time you get what you need for decent development, your out some major bucks, and need to recoupe them.
As opposed to Linux, which comes with everything you need for free.
yes, mozilla has a search button, which allows you to search google (configurable) for text you enter.
Lets see, the USA, promoter of free trade in the world, imposes a tariff on imported software.
I guess the poor ol' US software industry needs the protection of imports, even though until recently they needed special rules to import more tech workers, and the DOJ is working on breaking up MS.
Might not be bad, soak up a few of the dark fibers that are laying around, and put them to use.
unless your in the personal hygene world.
The US DOD seems a natural for the classic IBM mainframe running Linux.
Give each unit is own VM and run a commonly administrated and patched software base.
The high availablity needs of the main DOD sites would be met, and the smaller units can ride along.
They (the DOD) can certainly afford it.
Of course the credit card companies have products they promote to minors, so having a CC is no longer the age verifier it used to be.
The record companies WANT media that wears out, it forces you to buy another copy of the music you want.
The book "the complete FreeBSD" has a section on setting up Apache, as well as other popular apps on FreeBSD.
So its a matter of finding a good book on your desired distribution.
Moving the level of the people doing the checking to full time well paid and trained people with the same authority as police will help. As will onboard air marshals.
All the folks involved in airline security need to be treated similar to the police, given livable wages and benefits.
Marketing will give you as many nines as you want, as long as there is an non-nine digit in front of it.
When was the last time you bought gasoline in even penny amounts?
The typical lawnmower has a motor with a vertical shaft, great for a mower, but terrible for much of anything else.
You also need to add a flywheel, since the blade serves as rotating mass.
Outfitting the motor with a pulley, and a used automobile alternator will give a couple of hundred watts of electric power, which may be used as alternative or backup power.
Buts that about the best you can do with it.
exactly, the GPL would be perfect in this case, since it tends to keep people from trying to take the code their own way for profit.
In light of the problems with bundling, MS should be forced to sell the operating systems at a fixed, published price, with only qty breaks.
Every one pays the same price based on volume, without exception, or bundling or other deals. And oems are free to do what they want with the code, similar to other products, no more "you must put our icons on the startup".
Putting everyone on the same footing is the place to start.
VMS used clunks which were 100 nS units. IE one clunk was a tenth of a MS. And it was the time since the epoch of Nov 18 1858 (?) which is a standard time base.
VMS actually had a bug report filed on it, that the time would overflow the standard format after the year 10K, but a fix was promised by then.
VMS had an issue, just before the 2000 event, when one of the temporary storage variables in a library time routine overflowed.
There are many things that a programmer can do that will cause problems, that is why testing has to be done under extreme circumstances, using the full range of values.
Patents work pretty good in the real world. The problems with them relate to the patent office, and how they are awarded, overly broadly and ignoring prior art. They work far better than copyright law does.
As to the licensing of the patents, a maximally high cost per unit is not always the best way to go. There are many patented products that have withered on the vine, due to poor marketing of the licenses, but that isn't a fault of the patent process. Remember, that unlike copyrights in the Disney age, patent protection eventually expires.
requiring the use of an ENUM on Usenet and other discussion forums would keep the number of flames down, if the entire world can call you at 3am local time to voice their opinion.
I sure hope the IETF members and our US politians are willing to use their home phone number as their ENUM, because that will make short work of this proposal.
It would happen in the far east, they are the ones experiencing the worst effects of the IPv4 number shortage.
The Chinese would be another likely guess, since sending all their traffic through a single (or multiple) gateways would help in both their efforts to limit the net to their population, and in the transition.
It is a valid concern, they are people and they are impacted by this legal exercise as well.
/.ers do care about their well being is a comfort to them. I agree, lets not forget them.
It would be unrealistic to expect him to continue to fight against the law, if his wife and kid were starving at home because of it. This like the age old principle that a hungry army doesn't fight well.
I'm sure the fact that some
File extensions are wonderful, they are for the HUMAN to understand. They tell the human what is needed in an easy to understand format. Putting .wks on a file tells most people exactly what is needed, and the program itself can figure out the details from the file itself, or the metadata.
The computer itself shouldn't use the extension for anything but hints for filling in unkowns with default values, according to a the users conventions.
Don't forget the additional costs of complying with all those licenses, and the SPA audits.
The time to install security patches over the years.
Not to mention, by the time they implement 3,000 centers, it is all going to need upgrades.
If there customers are asking for Linux instead of AIX, and in IBM's bread and butter, that is OEM's who install their software on an IBM box, and IBM support services.
Chopping AIX's cost out of the picture, makes your vertical market solution a bit more cost competitive.
The nature of Linux and the GPL make this both less and more likely.
Less likely because of the very wide spread nature of Linux, as the RS/6000 version isn't going to impact x86 Linux. The worst that would happen is a code fork, which is what they have now with AIX.
More likely, in that if IBM stopped developing AIX, and transfered the development effort towards Linux, it would make big difference for Linux, IBM has lots of good technology and experience with operating systems.