User: head_dunce

Re:RedHat poised to become the next Microsoft

On: Red Hat Seeks to Deliver Most Secure Linux

Geek aside, let's talk business - it sure looks like the old Microsoft to me: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=rhat http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/050929/1171496.html?.v=1 I know I'm making a killing...

Re:No need to register...

On: The Greying of the Mainframe Elite

I see no reason why CS students coming out of college can't learn the zOS on the job from the people that are currently maintaining it.

Ah, spoken like someone who's never seen BAL, JCL, or MVS.

Re:blueSPAMMING and DigitalRestrictionMechanisms

On: Bluetooth Ads Beamed from Billboards

WHOIS Splue.com ?!?!

Re:Good idea

On: 3Com to Buy Security Flaws?

They need a good idea: http://biz.yahoo.com/fool/050701/112024475023.html ?.v=2

Re:Colors explication:

On: Hackers, Meet Microsoft

...and Red Hat's are little vampires sucking de blood from de SCO... BWHAHAHAHA!

Re:PDF Hack

On: Firefox Hacks

I'm running Firefox with Acrobat 7.0 and having no problems at all. While you're switching your browser, maybe you should switch your OS too.

Re:but what about the programmers?

On: The Care and Feeding of Open Source Software

In my day, we wrote software to make tasks easier... not harder :)

Ever try to draw with a digital airbrush in binary? "Easier" is relative.

Re:but what about the programmers?

On: The Care and Feeding of Open Source Software

So how could the GIMP team get paid for producing GIMP (or similar level tools/programs)? Is it possible to do?

You make something that needs tech support, and sell the tech support. Just as Red Hat, or charge at both ends like Billy does...